Technology and Security: Keeping You and IU Safe

Pushpin Icon Tip 1: Use Duo Two-Factor Authentication

Congratulations: You've already set up Duo Two-Factor Authentication if you're reading this page! Duo is a tool that you will use daily as a student at IU.

Refer to the Knowledge Base for information about how to manage your devices and Duo settings. Links to an external site. This will be particularly helpful if you set up your Duo account on a different device than the one you're bringing with you to campus, or if you get a new device.

About the IU Security Center

When you manage your Duo devices and settings, you're using just one part of a larger set of security tools called the IU Security Center. Links to an external site. Use the IU Security Center to change your passphrase, view third-party access (more about this on the next page), and manage your external email flagging.

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Pushpin icon Tip 2: Use secure WiFi

When you get to campus, use eduroam Links to an external site.—the secure wireless network for all of IU.

You can use eduroam from your phone, laptop, and/or tablet whenever you're on campus! Choose a favorite spot, connect, and settle in for your study session.

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Warning icon Tip 3: Never share your passphrase

Your passphrase for your IU username is a critical and confidential piece of information. Never share your passphrase with anyone! If you need to allow someone access to your information (for instance, so they can pay your bursar bill), IU has a secure, established process for setting up this third-party access. Links to an external site. The next page in this module provides detailed instructions for setting up third-party access.

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Warning icon Tip 4: Avoid phishing scams

Phishing scams are typically fraudulent email messages appearing to come from legitimate enterprises (for example, your university, your internet service provider, your bank). These messages usually direct you to a spoofed website or otherwise get you to divulge private information (for example, passphrase, credit card, or other account updates). The perpetrators then use this private information to commit identity theft. Remember the following tips:

  • IU (and other reputable organizations) will never use email to request your password, full Social Security number, or other confidential personal information. Be suspicious of any email that asks you for personal information.
  • If you are suspicious of an email you receive, never click links in the message or reply to it.
  • Hover your mouse over links in an email message to display the actual URL. Check:
    • Does the hover-text link match what's in the text, and does the link look like a site with which you would normally do business?
    • Check to see if the message sender used a digital signature.

Read more about types of phishing, avoiding scams, reporting a phishing scam, and what to do if you've fallen for a phishing scam at the IU Knowledge Base article on avoiding phishing scams. Links to an external site.

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Announcement Icon Tip 5: Sign up for emergency alerts

Tech Things Chapter 5: Messages from Beyond

To provide the safest possible environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors to Indiana University campuses, the university provides timely, reliable notifications by all possible means in the event of emergency. Generally, an emergency is any incident that involves death, serious injury, or threat of death or serious injury to people; significant damage to university facilities, research materials, property, and/or data; or significant disruption of university operations. University or campus administration will declare an emergency based on the circumstances of a particular situation.

IU uses a variety of methods to provide emergency and safety information, including sirens, public address, web pages, building stewards, residence hall assistants, broadcast and electronic media, and a consolidated communications system. Collectively, these capabilities are called "IU-Notify".

 

Important note: Your IU email for your primary campus is the default notification setting. To receive notifications via text, phone, or personal email, you must update your Emergency Notification Settings.  Links to an external site.

 

 

Your turn!

Take a minute to sign up for emergency alerts Links to an external site. so that you can be notified of any campus emergencies directly on your phone.

 

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