UCSF IT Technology

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.Security softwareUCSF 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

The Password Management Tool provides users with the ability to complete the following processes:NOTE: Please be sure to follow ALL of the instructions for these processes to avoid a lockout to your UCSF account.

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• Faculty
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• Email & Collaboration

                                                              ​                 How can I avoid phishing attacks? Phishing messages are becoming more targeted, sophisticated and even harder to recognize.

Frequently asked questions 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

Overview 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.

Overview 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.

What you need to know 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.