Northern Arizona University is committed to preserving the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of its information resources while also preserving and nurturing the open, information-sharing requirements of its academic culture.

As a member of the Northern Arizona University community, you play an important role in managing our resources and maintaining the security and privacy of our information. This web site provides information and resources that will help you improve both the information security of the University and your own personal information.

This mandatory on-line training is designed to educate employees about secure access to the relevant data they need to conduct University business. It covers the essentials needed to help prevent unauthorized access to systems, data, and networks which can lead to misuse of, or damage to computer assets or data.
Information Security Essentials Training

Receiving phishing scam email has become a regular occurrence at NAU. Don't take the bait. NAU will NEVER ask you for your password through email. For more information on phishing, see the following article.
http://onguardonline.gov/topics/phishing.aspx

ITS will recognize the occasion by advertising ways to to protect your computer and your personal information.
http://www.msisac.org/awareness/oct08/index.cfm

OnGuardOnline

• Social Security Administration
• Federal Trade Commission
• Department of Justice

• Sophos
• McAfee
• Symantec

• Internet Storm Center
• Top ten lists

• US Computer Emergency Response Team
• CERT Coordination Center

For your convenience we have implemented Really Simple Syndication (RSS) of the news alerts found here.

RSS is an easy way to get the news and alerts you want whenever it is updated even if you are not on the Information Security web site. Information Security provides continually updated news and alerts feeds and delivers them directly to your desktop news reader.

So how can one use RSS? There are several ways to access RSS feeds. You can install a news reader that displays RSS feeds from the Web sites you select. Like an email program or a Web browser, the news reader serves as a kind of information portal, and provides a real-time interface to the feeds you select. Once the RSS reader is set up to access Information Security, it will continually poll the Information Security RSS feed for the latest news and alerts. A number of free and commercial news readers are available for download.

Point your RSS reader to: http://www.nau.edu/its/security/newsalerts/rss/