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    Level Up Your Cybersecurity: Join UA's New Awareness Program

    March 07, 2025

    This pilot program is aimed at changing the way we approach training. Instead of a more lengthy session each fall, you can now opt into a more engaging format that breaks the training into four quick 5-minute assignments.

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    Did You Know? Scammers are Impersonating University Officials

    January 24, 2025

    Phishing emails and other electronic scams are becoming more frequent; in recent weeks, the Security team has received multiple reports of fraudulent document-sharing attempts. In this attack, a document will be shared with UA users, supposedly requesting action by a supervisor or trusted member of the UA community.

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OIT Strategic Plan

 

 

Our Mission:

Enable learning and innovation through technology for the University of Alaska community.

Our Vision:

To become the leading public sector IT service organization in the Arctic region, enabling world-class education, innovation, and research for the University of Alaska and its partners.

Our Initiatives:

 
Student Experience

WHY?

❑  Provide a welcoming environment and frictionless student experience through engagement in UA’s online platforms and through technology-managed processes

❑  Support UA priority to increase recruitment, retention, and graduation and modernize student experience

UA Cybersecurity Posture

WHY?

❑  Manage and mitigate UA cybersecurity risk

❑  Ensure sufficient compliance to support research growth

❑  Protect the privacy and confidentiality of stakeholders’ personal information

OIT Operational Maturity & Core Services Resiliency

WHY?

❑  Ensure strong IT foundation that drives value to the universities

❑  Ensure efficient use of limited resources aligned with university priorities

❑  Focus on priority system-wide services and meeting service expectations

Emerging Technologies, Opportunities, and Risks

WHY?

❑  Help UA keep pace with the rapidly evolving technology landscape

❑  Provide universities with technical guidance, thought leadership and foundational platforms to support innovation

❑  Stay current with emerging IT risks

 

These documents are restricted to the UA Community:

OIT Strategic Plan Roadmap

  • Student Experience

    • Banner General v9 upgrade
    • UA Scholars Application Project

  • UA Cybersecurity Posture

    • Security policy review

  • OIT Operational Maturity & Core Services Resiliency

    • Functional unit budget alignment
    • Formal OIT onboarding rollout

  • Emerging Technologies, Opportunities, and Risks

  • Student Experience

    • Increase rate of completion of family housing connectivity concerns
    • Redesign Tuition setup and related Banner processes (On Hold)

  • UA Cybersecurity Posture

  • OIT Operational Maturity & Core Services Resiliency

    • Streamline onboarding / offboarding /transfer procedures for employees (On Hold)
    • CAB review

  • Emerging Technologies, Opportunities, and Risks

    • GenAI data privacy policy and guidance

  • Student Experience

    • Develop Data Warehouse solution
    • Banner Self Service v9 Phase 2 Upgrade

  • UA Cybersecurity Posture

    • Develop policy update plan and implement top 3 most critical policies
    • Device and patch management programs
    • Clarify roles & responsibilities around compliance requirements and resource plan
    • Develop risk assessment procedures

  • OIT Operational Maturity & Core Services Resiliency

    • Service alignment
    • Develop enterprise architecture analysis (current state)
    • CAB communications process improvement
    • Succession planning.
    • Bench depth, and professional development

  • Emerging Technologies, Opportunities, and Risks

    • BoR Policy and UA regulation review
    • BC/DR gap analysis
    • Evaluate current communications state

  • Student Experience

    • Advocate for significant broadband capacity improvements as a community anchor institution
    • Modernize UA Foundation Scholarship processing
    • Right-sizing in-flight community campus bandwidth

  • UA Cybersecurity Posture

    • Adopt enterprise-wide program for remediating existing and future vulnerabilities
    • Implement annual security awareness training for all employees
    • Develop and implement system-wide incident response procedures
    • Implement MFA for active identities
    • Develop and implement UA cyber metric reporting and communication plan
    • Develop and implement executive security reporting approach

  • OIT Operational Maturity & Core Services Resiliency

    • Google Workspace Storage
    • Develop Application Lifecycle Management plan
    • Develop Directory Services modernization plan
    • OIT reporting (portfolio/ program management)
    • Identity & Access Management plan
    • CMT Recharter (On Hold)
    • Service-Budget alignment
    • Develop leadership development program

  • Emerging Technologies, Opportunities, and Risks

    • Refine software procurement security review procedure
    • Conduct communications market analysis
    • Review modernized connectivity options
    • Develop contract and vendor management approach
    • Prioritize implementation of modernized network delivery