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Are You Doing These 7 Things to Keep Your Personal Data Secure?

As the threat of cyberattacks increases against the U.S. infrastructure, organizations are enhancing their cyber defenses. Since we all share the responsibility, here are seven things you can do to help keep your financial and personal data secure.

Phishing Scams FAQs

Information security experts consider phishing scams to be the leading online threat to people at work and home.

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Important to know 

CU or any reputable organization will never ask for your passwords in an email, text, or phone call. 

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Everyone Shares in Cybersecurity Responsibility

Be sure to complete these required courses to learn about your responsibility in safekeeping CU information. 

  • Information Security and Privacy Awareness. This course must be completed by all CU new hires within 60 days. Since the course is updated annually, consider retaking the course each Fall. You will learn about data classification, phishing scams, insider threats, and more. 
  • Information Security for IT Service Providers. This course, which was recently revamped, must be completed by ITSPs universitywide. ITSPs design, build, implement, support, or provide services to university departments or individuals. The course covers policy, security management, access management, physical and environmental security, and incident detection, and reporting.  

Visit Available Training for more information.  

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Top 5 Policies and Standards to Know

IT Security Program
Serves as the core for the university's information security activities and provides general guidance

Data Classification
Classifying or labeling university information helps determine minimum security requirements necessary to keep it safe

Data Governance
Ensures university data is managed as a material asset (also see Data Management Group Process)

Systemwide Security Baseline Standards
Provides guidelines for selecting and specifying security controls for organizations and information systems

Systemwide High Impact Security Standards
Security standards and requirements for protecting highly confidential information when processed, stored, or transmitted.

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