Updates

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What happens to your MIT digital presence after graduation
Monday, May 18, 2020

Here is what graduating students should do before their MIT accounts are deactivated to preserve their digital assets.

Topics: spring cleaning, graduation, offboarding, students
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Tips for cleaning and disinfecting your devices
Monday, May 4, 2020

Follow your device manufacturer’s guidelines and these tips from IS&T to safely clean and disinfect your computer or mobile device.

Topics: hardware, spring cleaning
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BeyondTrust remote support software now available for all IT support providers at MIT
Thursday, April 23, 2020

To help mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 and best support MIT community members as they engage in activities remotely, IS&T has increased its capacity for BeyondTrust’s (formerly Bomgar) Secure Remote Support software, and will begin offering the service to all IT support providers today, free of charge.

Topics: remote working, beyondtrust, bomgar
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4 Ways to be Secure when Working Remotely
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Working, teaching, and learning away from the MIT campus poses new risks to securing information. IS&T recommends that community members follow these best practices when engaging in activities remotely to help reduce the chance of the information and data you handle at MIT being compromised.

Topics: secure computing, remote working, zoom, webex, information protection
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End-to-end encryption option now available for Webex meetings
Monday, April 6, 2020

MIT Webex users now have the option to use end-to-end encryption for meetings requiring a higher level of security.

Topics: webex, zoom, encryption, security, conferencing
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Beta release of MIT’s new cloud-based remote access VPN now available
Friday, April 3, 2020

To help mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 and best support MIT community members as they engage in activities away from campus, IS&T is pleased to announce the beta launch of a new cloud-based remote access VPN service for MIT.

Topics: vpn, globalconnect, global connect, prisma
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Securing Zoom meetings and classes to prevent disruption
Sunday, March 29, 2020

MIT does not recommend allowing attendees to join any Zoom session without requiring either Touchstone authentication or a meeting password.

Topics: zoom, security
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Webex transcriptions enabled for recordings
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

IS&T has updated the Webex conferencing platform to enable the automatic creation of transcripts for all recorded meetings and events by default.

Topics: webex, recording, remote, transcription
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Dropbox storage quota increase for MIT
Friday, March 20, 2020

MIT has increased Dropbox default storage quotas to 500 GB for all MIT users; faculty, lecturers, and Spring 2020 TAs get 10 TB.

Topics: Dropbox, quota
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MIT-wide Slack Enterprise Grid now available to the MIT Community
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

With Slack Enterprise Grid, MIT faculty, students, and staff are eligible to create Slack workspaces and all members of the extended MIT community are eligible to participate in MIT’s Slack workspaces.

Topics: slack

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