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While October is well known as the month of
ghosts and goblins, our Information Technology
staff want you to recognize the scariest
event could involve trickery of a different
kind—one that threatens personal or work
related information. October is Cybersecurity
Awareness month and the Southeast IT
department has been busy broadcasting the
message, using a variety of means and media.
Perhaps you stopped by our Phishing table, in
the University Center or Towers Cafeteria, where
we challenged students, faculty, and staff to
identify phishing content. Using an enlarged,
but actual phishing message, technology users
learned how to discern the difference between
a legitimate or phishing email. Coming soon,
our very own Southeast River Campus students
will star in our Cybersecurity/Fairy Tale posters.
Each poster will help us deliver important
security messages and will be rotated across the
Southeast campuses. An enormous thank you
goes out to Dr. Kenneth Stilson and his great
team of stars (staff and students)!
Our Cybersecurity Awareness program will
be continued and available, now and in the
future, in this edition of TechTalk. Increase your
Cybersecurity knowledge on topics such as:
Ransomware, Private Browsing, and Browser
Cookies. Read about Southeast’s successful
Cybersecurity degreed program or play a
Cybersecurity game. Calculate your online
security risk and increase your data security by
using the Spring Cleaning Checklist.
While this edition of TechTalk includes an
enlarged Cybersecurity section, we strived to
include our typical variety of technology related
topics. Faculty member, Dr. Michelle Kilburn,
contributes an article discussing five ways to
establish instructor presence as an online
instructor. Education student, Hannah Moss,
shares how the Edvolution program helped her
with her future career. We identify an app that
you may find useful, introduce the latest Banner
project, and include an alert that student email
is about to make an improved change. And,
what about that paperless myth? See the latest
printing statistics from the IT student computer
labs.
Members of Information Technology consider
this third edition of TechTalk as special in
two ways. First, we hope to have addressed
the Cybersecurity issue that affects each
and every one of us, in a way that will bring
about awareness and due diligence. Second,
we introduce and welcome Information
Technology’s new leader, Floyd Davenport,
by wrapping up this edition with a personal
interview. Learn more about the man behind
the Associate Vice President title by reading this
article.
Martha Henckell
Director, User Services
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