FAST FIVE for the week of September 30, 2012


Anti-Phishing Campaign: In time for Security Awareness month, the University of Guelph recently launched its Anti-Phishing Campaign: They're Smart, You're Smarter. The campaign aims to increase the campus community's awareness about keeping their online accounts safe from phishing attempts, by encouraging U of G users to be smarter in responding to suspicious-looking emails. Learn more about anti-phishing in this article: Protect yourself from online criminals

New CUCCIO Website: The Canadian University Council of CIO's has launched their new website. The project was initiated by Lori MacMullen, the Executive Director of CUCCIO, and developed by staff from the University of Saskatchewan. The new site provides information on the organization, features comments from key leaders, and provides information about key CUCCIO initiatives. CUCCIO gets a makeover

Improving Customer Service: The IT support at the University of Calgary has extended support hours to improve service to its clients. The hours have been extended for the first three weeks of the fall and winter terms: Longer service hours


New HR System: Memorial University will be replacing its 20 year old mainframe human resources system with the Banner Human Resources module. This new system will enable finance, student, and HR systems to share the same database of information. The University expects to reap process improvements and enable the HR department to become more service oriented. Banner HR at MUN


More Banner News: The Canadian Banner User Conference commences this week in Calgary. The conference is being hosted by the several Banner higher education institutions from Alberta and this year's theme is collaboration. CBUC 2012




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