October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The Office of Information Technology provides UA students, faculty and staff with a variety of tools and software to stay cybersafe. Throughout the month, OIT will be sharing cybersecurity tips and best practices.
Duo, LastPass and OneDrive all are critical tools that can boost your cybersecurity status; however, there is one additional tool provided by OIT that can help faculty and staff discover their own vulnerabilities. Spirion, available to UA faculty and staff, searches machines and accounts for sensitive data such as social security numbers, credit card numbers and a variety of other data elements.
With Spirion, UA faculty and staff can proactively find sensitive data on their University machines and storage. If Spirion does find sensitive data on your machine, it will point it out to you. You will then have the option to remove the data or move it to a more secure location such as Microsoft OneDrive.
Before you can appropriately secure sensitive information, you’ve got to learn where it is stored. OIT encourages all UA faculty and staff to end cybersecurity awareness month strong and scan their machines for sensitive information today. More information and detailed guides for using Spirion are available on the OIT website.
For more information on cybersecurity best practices, visit oit.ua.edu/security.