Articles related to secure computing environment for end users. Includes network security, system security, application security, and threat monitoring and management.
To ensure that data is kept safe and secure, all new computers are delivered with full disk encryption enabled, and computers in use prior to the data encryption initiative will be manually encrypted by IT. This page outlines the major steps so that you can know what to expect when you are contacted by the IT professional to begin the process.
Drexel began a data security initiative as part of a comprehensive security, privacy, and compliance program to better protect academic, medical, financial, and other sensitive personal records entrusted to the University.
Drexel has implemented DMARC, an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol, to augment our email security initiative and efforts to combat phishing, email scams and spoofing of our domains.
Emails containing sensitive information must be encrypted when sent to an email address on a service that is considered less secure than the one you sent from. For the purposes of this concept, the three-level security hierarchy starts with the IT-managed Exchange service, followed by other IT-managed services, followed by all other Drexel and external mail services. Messages sent within the same security level or from a lower security level to a higher one do not need to be encrypted.
Drexel distributes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to protect University owned systems.
To improve its cyber defenses, Drexel University recently embarked in a multi-year project to install advanced firewalls and other state-of-the-art protection technologies made by Palo Alto. Drexel University IT operated the border firewall on select campus networks throughout 2018. If you think that you are experiencing a problem caused by the border firewall, please contact your local IT support team or the Drexel University IT Help Desk at
https://drexel.edu/it/services/catalog/helpdesk/.
This article provides information on password managers and provides some recommended password managers.
To ensure that sensitive information stored on mobile devices is kept safe and secure, Drexel has established security standards for devices that synchronize information with university services.