CIS News: December 2006

Winter Break Closing Details

Beginning Monday, December 18 through Sunday, January 21, the CIS Help Desk hours will be shortened to weekdays from 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM, and will be closed on weekends.

CIS expects its technical services to remain operational during the closing. CIS staff will monitor critical services, such as the network and email and will check help messages twice daily, responding to critical outages immediately. All non-critical service outages will be addressed after January 2. To report an issue, call 863-HELP (4357).

The CIT building, CIS Help Desk, and the computing clusters will close at 5 p.m. on December 22, 2006. The CIT building and Help Desk will reopen at 7:30a.m. and the clusters will open at 9:00a.m. on Tuesday, January 2, 2007

December edition of Secure IT! News now available

Check out the latest edition of the Secure IT! newsletter to learn:

• How easy it is to steal your identity, and what you can do to keep thieves at bay
• The top security threats predicted for 2007
• The ins and outs of firewalls, the home version
• How to tell if you're the only person using your computer
• About the Director of IT for the Division of Biology and Medicine
• A holiday tip on bogus eCards