August 7, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By John Virden. The University of California has a new systemwide electronic information security policy, often referred to as IS-3. It was signed into action by President Janet Napolitano, September 7, 2018, and is the culmination of many years…
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June 19, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Jacob Poore.
A computer lab in a vending machine? That’s what UC Riverside’s Information Technology Solutions (ITS) organization made possible when it implemented self-service laptop checkout kiosks on campus for students.
The kiosks are a lot like a vending machine — or video rental kiosk — for campus-owned laptops, and offer three device options, including Dell…
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A consortium consisting of UC Riverside, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, together with Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded $3.6 million for a three-year project, “Securing smart campuses: a holistic multi-layer approach,” through the 2018 UC Laboratory…
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January 9, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Jeané Blunt. Camille Crittenden was the keynote speaker at the biannual UC Cyber Security Summit, held at UC Riverside, October 24, and hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center. She spoke compellingly about the lack of diversity in…
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October 22, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Julia Chen. Despite their growing numbers, women in technology still face significant barriers in the workplace. According to a 2016 report performed by the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT), only 25% of the computing workforce…
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September 5, 2018 All Articles 0
Register now for the UC Cyber Summit at UC Riverside on October 24. Seats are filling up fast for this popular biannual event.
The summits are hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center to provide continuing education and networking…
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June 20, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Azra Ayers. With 20 years of military IT background, UCR’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) John Virden knows when to get in on the ground floor. So when UC CIO Tom Andriola and UC CISO David Rusting called for…
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August 30, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Alison Spencer. When you bite into a delicious fresh orange, you probably don’t think about all that had to happen for it to get to you. For one, the tree had to survive sickness so that healthy fruit could…
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June 15, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 2
Danna Gianforte started as chief information officer (CIO) at UCR on December 1, 2016, replacing retired CIO Chuck Rowley. Prior to UCR, Gianforte was CIO for Residential and Dining Enterprises at Stanford University, and before that, associate CIO at the…
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June 1, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 3
By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. “It’s fun to have been part of all the changes that have taken place over the last twenty-seven years,” said Jill Hishmeh (pictured third from the left), Director of IT Communications at UCR….
Read more about Spotlight: Jill Hishmeh – Remembering When the UCR Network Was Young