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.
Information Security Essentials Training.
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
Don't let a phishing scam reel you in
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
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month!
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
Best Practices for safe
internet use:
OnGuardOnline
Guidelines for reporting and
resolving Identity Theft:
Virus and malware status
sites:
National Internet Security
sites:
News & Alerts available via
RSS!
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/