Monthly Archives: July 2023

Two updates happening on Monday, July 31, 2023

Posted on July 26, 2023 by ndobie

From: Ravi Ravishanker, CIO & Associate Provost To: All Fac/Staff Subject: Two updates happening on Monday, July 31, 2023 Duo Two Factor Authentication will be required while establishing a VPN connection We wrote to you earlier about this topic and … Continue reading →

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08/05/23: Zoom clients on all their devices must be updated to version 5.12.2 or higher by August 5th.

Posted on July 20, 2023 by ndobie

Zoom will require that all users have updated their version of the Zoom client software on their computers and mobile phones by August 5th.  And if you don’t, you will not be able to join a meeting until you do. … Continue reading →

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Sakai upgrade July 26, 5:00am

Posted on July 18, 2023 by ndobie

We will be upgrading Sakai from version 22.2 to version 22.3 early Wednesday morning, July 26th.  This minor update will only take 30 minutes, and it will fix a number of small bugs. Sakai will not be available during this … Continue reading →

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Vault Issues Temporarily Resolved

Posted on July 17, 2023 by ndobie

After a careful review as to the cause of the inability of our users to mount Vault successfully since last Thursday, we were able to identify the issue and correct it a few minutes ago. You should be able to … Continue reading →

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Workday Idle Timeout will be increased

Posted on July 17, 2023 by ndobie

Currently Workday has an idle timeout of 15 minutes. That simply means if you have not interacted with Workday in any fashion for 15 minutes, you will be automatically logged out and you need to log back in. The reason … Continue reading →

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Intermittent issues accessing Vault

Posted on July 13, 2023 by ndobie

LTS has been notified that some users are not able to access Vault. We are actively looking into this and will provide updates as needed. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you. To: Everyone From, more info: Nephellie … Continue reading →

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VPN will require DUO beginning 8AM on Monday, July 17th

Posted on July 10, 2023 by ndobie

As you know, during the past few years, we have introduced the need to login through Duo for most of our systems, including web applications. This provides an added layer of security that is much needed in the current environment … Continue reading →

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Sunday, July 16th and 23rd from 12AM to 3AM Critical Server Maintenance

Posted on July 7, 2023 by ndobie

A comprehensive review of our server environment by a company we hire to run a network security compliance testing as well as based on a recommendation of a virtual Chief Information Security Officer that we have hired, we need to … Continue reading →

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Cybersecurity Compliance Testing scheduled from 8 AM on Friday, July 7th until 12 midnight on Sunday, July 9th

Posted on July 3, 2023 by ndobie

In order to comply with Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), we are required to conduct an annual cybersecurity compliance test. This involves running through a set of software that mimics what the hackers typically try to do to enter into our networks … Continue reading →

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