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Request IT Security Awareness Posters

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].

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Recommended Security Products

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: 

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  • Faculty
  • Non-UCSF
  • Staff
  • Student
  • Technical Partner
  • Volunteer
  • Security
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Avoid Being Phished - Quick Tips

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

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DDPE Removable Storage Encryption FAQs

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.

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  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Student
  • Technical Partner
  • Volunteer
  • Security
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Device Encryption

Encryption is the process of encoding information so that only authorized persons can read it. It is used to protect confidential and legally protected data. In this case, "legally protected" has real and serious meaning. If an unencrypted laptop, tablet, mobile phone or other device is lost or stolen, and if it contained legally protected information, you or the University might be held liable for damages, you could be sent to prison, or the University could take corrective action against you. 

  • Affiliate
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Student
  • Technical Partner
  • Volunteer
  • Security
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Report a lost or stolen mobile device

Immediately report the theft or loss of your device to the UCSF Police Department: 415-476-1414. Remember that time is of the essence.  After reporting the loss or theft of your device to the UCSF Police Department,  it is critical that you contact the IT Service Desk at 415-514-4100 as soon as possible.

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Prepare a Laptop for International Travel

Because UC is a global organization, employees frequently travel domestically and abroad. UCOP has created the UCGO site at https://www.ucgo.org/ to (1) help facilitate this travel and (2) provide health and safety guidance and other critical resources while employees are traveling

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How to Determine Your Computer Encryption Status

Multiple methods for deploying whole-disk encryptions are used at UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Campus. The list of computer encryptions below is ordered by most to least well-used. For additional information regarding encryption, visit our Encryption FAQs.