UCSF IT Technology

The UCSF Security Awareness Campaign is managed around monthly themes. Below are the posters for each month. If you would like to help raise awareness by putting up posters in your area, please contact Esther Silver at 415-476-7273 or [email protected].

Data is increasingly becoming UCSF’s lifeblood and most critical asset. We’ve curated a collection of tools and products to help you protect UCSF’s data These tools and products have been vetted by IT Security, and we encourage you to use them.UCSF ITS provides client security software free of charge to faculty, staff, learners and researchers: 

• Affiliate
• Faculty
• Non-UCSF
• Staff
• Student
• Technical Partner
• Volunteer
• Security

                                                              ​                 Phishing messages are becoming more targeted, sophisticated and even harder to recognize.

What is DDPE EMS? Dell Data Protection Encryption (DDPE) is UCSF's enterprise-wide desktop and laptop encryption application. External Media Shield (EMS) is DDPE's feature that enables saving encrypted files on removable storage devices such as flash drives or external hard drives. When will DDPE and DDPE EMS become available for macOS Big Sur? DDPE is not available for macOS Big Sur as Dell discontinued further development of this software.

• Affiliate
• Faculty
• Staff
• Student
• Technical Partner
• Volunteer
• Security

To clear all your saved passwords from your PC, you will need to open the Credential Manager in Windows. Once you've cleared the passwords stored in Windows, you'll be able to relaunch Outlook and log into the application with your newly created password.

To avoid account lookouts and access issues, you will need to update the password on your Mac as well as your UCSF account password at the same time.

You can easily clear the usernames and passwords that Firefox has saved for you. Note: These steps apply to Firefox for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

The Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 Internet Explorer 11 browser allows you to store your login credentials for websites. You can delete all your saved passwords. However, you will then have to re-enter your login credentials for any websites you visit. To delete your passwords:

See the video below for instructions on how to clear your cache and cookies on Chrome. This is especially useful if you've set up Chrome to save your UCSF password, and it has been changed. For instructions on managing your cache on browsers, please see Managing your Browser Cache.