• There is a wide variety of motives – more than you can imagine – for cybercriminals to try to access the university’s online spaces, resources and data. If you have a university username and password, you are a target. ITS or COLI employees would be happy to explain all the reasons someone might try to get into your Canisius accounts.
• There are proven good habits that can protect your account and access. That’s why we insist on a cybersecurity training. Cybersecurity is not a distraction from the work you need to do; it is a set of habits that you must incorporate into your work.
• The university loses money and employee time (which is money) trying to clean up after a data breach. The university’s cost for insurance is based in part on employee completion of cybersecurity training. Help us keep revenues properly pointed at the things we care about most.

Even careful employees can be the victim of a successful hack, but we can learn to be harder targets and greatly reduce the chances. And do not be the employee who was hacked because you skipped cybersecurity training!

Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Instructional Designer, COLI

Due to a recent policy change, Emails sent and received by faculty and staff have a default life of 180 days in our inboxes or sent mail folders. Previously, this limit was 120 days.

In any case, we can easily extend the life of emails, indefinitely, with a simple procedure that also helps us organize emails for later retrieval if needed. We simply create folders in our account (but not in our inbox or sent mail folders), named and arranged however we find most convenient!

In our first Email Management Tutorial (Click the button below), we show how to do these procedures in Outlook Web, which is available to all faculty and staff, regardless of whether they use PC or Mac. In future tutorials we’ll look at Outlook Desktop and Mac Mail, but the procedures there are quite similar.