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To our campus community,

Last month we sent a campus-wide message to inform you of a necessary shutdown of our Data Center scheduled for Friday, May 31, 2024. After further consideration of potential impacts on campus operations, this planned shutdown will be moved to a new date to be determined in consultation with campus stakeholders. This work is required to support the campus research mission and to provide improved resilience for the Data Center to run on generator power during campus outages. 

When Sana Pandey arrived at UC Berkeley four years ago, she wanted to be a doctor. It was how she was going to put the most good into the world, she said. But after she took her first computer science class, the joy of problem solving had her hooked.

Dear One IT Community, 

The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) and the U.S. Department of Education (ED) are proud to announce the Partnership for Advancing Cybersecurity in Education (PACE), an initiative to improve the defensibility and resilience of K-12 digital infrastructure by fostering collaboration between education technology vendors and cybersecurity experts.

Hello Everyone,

Info (in a) Sec: Information Security Newsletter - April 30, 2024

Dear One IT Colleagues,

This past Tuesday, several of our One IT colleagues were honored as recipients of the Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards (COSAs) during an award ceremony held at the Chevron Auditorium. Join me in congratulating all our award recipients for their hard work and dedication! 

Have you worked on something you’re proud of? Looking for a way to share it with a larger audience? Present it at this year’s UC Tech 2024: Collaboration for Transformation, from October 27-29, co-hosted by UC Davis Health and UC Davis! 

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 1.3 billion people — 16% of the world’s population, or 1 in 6 of us — currently experience significant disability. Another 1 in 3 people are projected to experience a permanent or temporary disability in the next 10 years.

Do you work with student staff? If so, when was the last time you gave them a shoutout for work well done? It’s National Student Employment Week, a time to recognize student employees' valuable contributions to our colleges and universities. Observed annually during the second week in April, this celebration isn’t just about thanking students for their hard work, but also about raising awareness of the important skills and experience they gain through these positions, which can benefit them academically and professionally in the long run.

To our campus community,

Following extensive campus review, we are pleased to announce that the updated Minimum Security Standards for Electronic Information (MSSEI) was ratified on Feb. 29, 2024, effective April 1, 2024. The Information Security Office is in the process of updating its website to reflect these changes. Visit the MSSEI home page to view the revised standards.

Dear Campus Community, 

We are pleased to announce the launch of an improved Campus Directory Update tool that allows you to customize privacy settings for individual data fields. These recent enhancements allow you to have better control over who can view your data listed in the campus directory plus offer a more intuitive design.

What has changed?

You now have the option to select how your data is displayed in the directory by using a drop-down menu for each field. Options include: