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Dear Campus Community,

Every October, we aim to increase cybersecurity awareness by offering guidance on safeguarding your data. Technology plays a key role in supporting the mission of teaching, research, and public service at Berkeley. Since each of us needs to be cyber-savvy to stay safe, we invite you to take the following actions to help protect your devices and data. 

Dear One IT Colleagues, 

We are excited to announce that our bi-monthly CIO Open Forum has been rebranded as the “One IT Forum.” The forum will continue to serve as a space for connecting with our peers and will now include presentations from faculty members sharing research and teaching insights enabled by technology, as well as presentations from service providers across One IT, highlighting their work to the community.

UC Berkeley experts received a $1.5 million grant from the California Education Learning Lab (Learning Lab) to launch a first-of-its-kind computing technology hub for the state’s public colleges and universities. 

If you attended the virtual August 14^thInformation Technology Policy and Security (ITPS) meeting, you heard a startling and informative presentation from a UC San Diego physician about cyberattacks and healthcare.  

Dear One IT Colleagues, 

Recently, after deploying Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) onto Berkeley Managed Desktops running macOS, a small percentage of users (~2%) reported experiencing “unstable network connectivity issues.” The primary issue has been intermittent frozen Zoom calls and loss of Drive connectivity.

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

Hello One IT Community!

On Aug. 5, 2024, NASA announced the collaboration with UC Berkeley to bring the Savio Research Computing Cluster to Moffett Field, expanding beyond Earl Warren Hall. This significant partnership between Research IT and Berkeley IT is a result of several years of hard work and we are thrilled to share the arrival of this major milestone. As Berkeley Research CTO Ken Lutz noted, “Berkeley must offer advanced capabilities and capacity to researchers. Our teams meet every week to coordinate the onboarding of new faculty equipment.

IT Colleagues and Campus Partners,

As we prepare to ramp up technical support for instruction during the summer sessions final exam period and the beginning of the fall semester, we are implementing our customary IT change freezes on production changes for UC Berkeley systems. These freezes enable us to provide optimal IT service and systems performance for our campus and minimize potential disruptions during peak periods of academic activity when our services are in greater demand.

To our campus community,

The BayAreaCISO ORBIE Awards honor chief information security officers (CISOs) who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership, and this year two University of California CISOs are finalists! Congratulations to Allison Henry (CISO at UC Berkeley) and April Sather (CISO at UC Office of the President) on being finalists for the 2024 BayAreaCISO Orbie Awards!

Dear One IT Members, 

Our staff-led speaker series on technology and technology-related fields, One IT Info Bytes*, is moving to a new day/time! Join us moving forward on the second Wednesday of every month from 10 - 11 a.m.

Berkeley IT Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Berkeley ITSpot Awardrecipients. This award is designed to recognize special contributions of staff, as they occur, for a specific project or task. These awards also recognize and reinforce the behaviors and values important to us in Berkeley IT.