Updates
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
The MIT Hardware Service Center has reopened in a new space—Building 56, Room 129—with expanded services designed to make technology support more accessible to the community.
Friday, February 7, 2025
MIT’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) played a key role in a groundbreaking experiment that used the Institute’s existing fiber optic cables to image the ground beneath campus, a technique with significant potential for seismic hazard assessment.
Monday, August 19, 2024
MIT community members who use LastPass should be aware of an upcoming mandatory change to their account that requires user action. Users with accounts created before August 5, 2024, will be prompted to request a Privacy Enhancement in LastPass that will encrypt URLs.
Monday, July 15, 2024
Renew your digital certificates before they expire on July 30. Certain web applications continue to require authentication using a personal certificate rather than Touchstone, so IS&T recommends keeping your MIT certificate up to date.
Friday, June 28, 2024
Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) will begin enabling Touchstone authentication for MIT's Google Workspace for Education service on July 8. IS&T will notify each account by email in advance on their scheduled day that Touchstone authentication will take effect after 5 p.m. that day.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
IS&T will update Touchstone's configuration on June 17 so that all Touchstone-enabled systems will use the new Okta-powered single sign-on service.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) is retiring MIT's Webex service. No new MIT accounts will be created after June 7 and the service will be retired on August 30, 2024.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) has published initial guidance for the community on the use of tools and services leveraging generative artificial intelligence.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
MIT community members accessing systems using Touchstone and Duo authentication will notice some visual changes and an improved two-factor authentication experience as Information Systems and Technology implements updates to the Institute's single sign-on web authentication service on Friday, March 22, after 6 p.m.
