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We’ve made some changes to our network security setup, which will affect how you experience logging into the campus bSecure VPN.

Why the Change?

• Better security - This new method allows you to use your preferred browser, so outdated browsers like Internet Explorer (which is no longer supported and receiving security patches) won’t be used. 

• Remembers your CalNet cookie - This new method lets your system remember your login session and helps smooth the transition to CalNet Authenticate.

To our campus community,

Watch: UC WIT Fall Fireside Chat with Rachael Nava

In November, Associate Chief Information Security Officer, and UC Womxn in Technology (UC WIT) Chair, Charron Andrus, associate chief information security officer, UC Berkeley, sat down for a Fall fireside chat with University of California Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Rachael Nava.

We're excited to announce that we are now accepting session proposals for the 2025 UC Tech Annual Conference! From success stories to lessons learned, diverse perspectives to shared experiences, we want you to be the voice at this event!

To our One IT community,

Due to the planned strike for UPTE on Feb. 26-28, IT Client Services (ITCS) anticipates reduced staffing levels, impacting our ability to provide technical support to faculty and staff. Our ITCS team consists of primarily represented staff under the UPTE Technical Unit - TX. Expect delays from the IT Service Desk, procurement, provisioning, and desktop support. We will prioritize urgent issues and respond as quickly as possible, but service levels will be impacted as follows: 

Dear One IT Community,

It’s been a pleasure working with you all over the past two years on developing our student employment and leadership development opportunities. Together we’ve fostered greater engagement with our IT student workforce, facilitated supportive pathways into IT, increased the visibility and recognition of our student teams, and created more support structures for supervisors of students.

In our final report, you will find: 

• Summary of the program’s impact.

Referencing the higher education treatise by Clark Kerr – “The Uses of the University” – Gerald Chan proposed several modern-day updates to the 1963 classic during a recent lecture at UC Berkeley.

Colleagues, 

We are excited to share some upcoming cybersecurity safeguards for our campus. UC Berkeley’s reputation for excellence in research and academic integrity depends on the reliability and security of our data. By committing to cybersecurity best practices, each of us helps to protect groundbreaking research, preserve student privacy, and maintain the integrity and availability of our academic and administrative services. 

To our campus community,

As we enter the winter break, please be advised that the holidays are prime time for phishing and other cyber attacks. To help protect the campus community, Berkeley IT is strengthening our phishing filters. Please be alert to phishes that slip through our net and don’t take the bait!

Visit our phish tank for examples of known attacks, and report suspicious emails by:

I volunteered at the second annual Student Tech Experience Event for Fall 2024, hosted by Campus IT Experience (CITE) on Sept. 25, 2024. The aim? To raise awareness of technology offerings to students, and to gather students’ feedback about their technology needs.

On October 28, 2024, the University of California honored six individuals and eleven teams from various UC entities with the 2024 UC Tech Awards at the UC Tech Conference, hosted by UC Davis and UC Davis Health.

One IT Colleagues,

I’m delighted to share that our Berkeley IT Short-Term Strategy is now live on our technology website! The following five priorities are already being used to help guide planning and proposals to governance this fall for the new current year and fiscal 2026 initiatives:

Brian Xi, B.A. ‘24, became interested in public interest technology during his first data science course. His professor used the 1854 cholera outbreak in London to teach about causation, showing how a physician proved water supply differences explained varying death rates. That discovery saved lives.

Growing up as the only hearing child in an all-Deaf family — a circumstance he says is rarer than being struck by lightning twice — Thibault Duchemin was always translating. From phone calls to doctor’s appointments, he often served as the de facto bridge between his parents and sister and the hearing world. That’s something he says a lot of CODAs (children of deaf adults) end up doing, since live interpreters can be prohibitively expensive.