Enhanced Internet Protections

UBIT is collaborating with departmental IT support staff to add additional security features to online digital assets. This enhancement specifically affects digital assets directly accessible from the Internet, but not already protected by a departmental firewall managed by departmental support staff.

The assets being affected by these new rules are difficult to categorize, as they are typically “homegrown” resources built for specific purposes by an individual or department. 

Most people at UB won’t be affected. UBIT is working closely with distributed IT staff in UB’s schools and departments to identify assets that may be impacted, and those who “own” them. If you are the owner of such assets, your departmental support staff will contact you with information about what is changing, and when.

If you have doubts about whether this change applies to you, contact your departmental support staff.

UB’s standards for digital security are designed to deliver a more secure computing environment for UB’s students, faculty and staff by default. But even a small number of unsecured services and systems can create critical vulnerabilities that put us all at risk.

Internet Protections:

• Strengthen UB's security posture and reputation, while providing 
  flexibility to prevent disruption of necessary university functions 
  including research
• Safeguard university assets, faculty data, intellectual property and sensitive information from unauthorized outside access or theft, aligning with Safeguarding University and Faculty Assets Initiative

Start:
Summer 2021

Finish:
Ongoing