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To our Campus Community,

As you know, we have all been working hard to reduce and redistribute our digital storage to mitigate the impact of Google’s change in storage costs for higher education. We are now in the final phase and need your help to ensure that your important institutional content is preserved. Content shared with you but owned by former UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff may be removed as we move forward, so we need you to identify and save these files that are essential to you.

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On the occasion of National Accessibility Independence Day, join Judy Thai, director, Application Engineering and Beena Albert, Business Intelligence technical lead, who will meet to discuss Thai’s recommended resource on LinkedIn Learning, “Accessibility for Managers and Non-Designers.”

Colleagues,

New safeguards have been added to help protect the campus community from phishing attacks that could result in unauthorized access to employees’ UCPath accounts and paycheck information.

Dear One IT Colleagues, UISLs, and UITRLs,

After campus stakeholder review and approval by the Information Risk Governance Committee (IRGC), we are pleased to announce that UC Berkeley’s Data Classification Standard, now called the Data and IT Resource Classification Standard, has been updated to include Recovery Level (RL) from IS-12, the systemwide IT Recovery Policy. 

On June 20 One IT hosted their annual picnic at UC Berkeley’s Faculty Club Glade. One IT is a diverse community comprising UC Berkeley’s many IT organizations, including tech, data, and design enthusiasts. Read about the history, planning, and experience behind the picnic and exclusive insights from outgoing interim CIO Gabriel Gonzalez and new CIO Tracy Schroeder. I am Megan Sacyat, Communications Assistant with Berkeley IT, and this is my experience attending the One IT picnic for the first time as a remote student worker.

Starting June 27, 2024, you may be prompted to accept a new security certificate to access eduroam Wi-Fi. If you are prompted, please accept the certificate to get connected. 

The FY25 One IT Strategic Plan highlights the collective work being done across the technology landscape at Berkeley, from enhancing classroom technology to providing the foundational infrastructure the campus needs to thrive. This extensive plan, involving 30 campus units, is designed to support the campus mission and invest in instruction and research by leveraging cutting-edge technology and fostering an inclusive, secure, and efficient IT environment.

To our campus community,

After considering and incorporating feedback from multiple stakeholders regarding campus operations impacts, Sunday, July 7, 2024, has been selected for the necessary shutdown of the Data Center. Berkeley IT will be working with Facilities Services to make electrical system repairs that will restore Data Center emergency generator power capabilities. This work supports the campus academic and research mission by ensuring the Data Center and the many technology services it hosts remain functional during campus power outages.

Over 41,000 attendees – including 650 speakers across 425 sessions and 600 exhibitors – gathered at the RSA Conference (RSAC) 2024 on May 6-9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This was RSA Conference’s 33^rd annual event.  

Process Palooza, hosted by UC San Diego, is a high-energy collaborative experience showcasing the power of continuous improvement. Come join the two-day program, August 21-22, 2024, at UC San Diego. Registration for Process Palooza 2024 is filling up fast, so please register soon to secure your spot.

Dear One IT colleagues,

We are excited to host our third annual One IT Celebration Picnic. Join fellow One IT staff and meet new folx, including our new CIO, Tracy Schroeder! Bring a hat and sunscreen, we’ll provide lunch and lawn games.

Dear campus community, 

Six policies and additional related documents define acceptable use of the University’s technology resources.* To promote ease of reference and to follow best practices common at other institutions, Berkeley IT invites you to review a proposed consolidation of these terms into a single policy. We have updated the campus Computer Use Policy to incorporate these terms of acceptable use and have renamed it, “Acceptable Use of Technology Resources Policy (AUP).” 

Save the date for the 15th Cyber Security Summit, which will be held at UC Irvine on October 9, 2024. Registration opens in July.
The summit brings together people from across the university and beyond to discuss and learn about cybersecurity and cyber risk management. Now is a good time to save the date and obtain your travel approvals.

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,