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Think your online life is secure? Ready to put your digital identity to the test? Prove it. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. So each week in October, we're challenging students to perform on...
High on the rooftops of St. Edward’s, a beacon sits, waiting to spring into action. No, it’s not the bat signal. It’s something better: a cell amplification receiver. To explain why that’s so important, let’...
In the spring, we told you about the new direction we’re charting for our Help Desk and OIT support. We’ve got an update for the fall semester. Over the summer, we spent considerable time evaluating our Help ...
For nearly two months, the Digital Infrastructure team in the Office of Information Technology has been busy installing, testing and migrating our server environment. What’s great about that? You didn’t notice ...
We can think of few technology disasters worse than the loss of a laptop. Besides the sentimental value, the demise of your computer or device can also mean the loss of all of your data — your important files, ...
Several years ago, LinkedIn, the professional-networking juggernaut, bought Lynda.com, the online-learning platform (available to all St. Edward’s students, faculty and staff with their university accounts). ...
If you’ve ever called, emailed, chatted online or walked into our Moody 309 space, you’ve talked with our Help Desk, the first point of OIT support on campus. Our goal with every interaction, of course, is to ...
Over the summer, we retired the university mobile app. In a world where most of the critical St. Edward's websites you visit are mobile-friendly, the mobile app didn't seem to have a clear place anymore. Th...
Last Monday, you probably noticed some things — namely, that you couldn’t log in to much of anything. We wanted to give you some insight into what happened and what we’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen ag...
You may have heard the terms “Meltdown” and “Spectre” and a lot of talk about cybersecurity recently. What does it all mean? We’ll break it down for you. Researchers and security experts have identified a desi...