{"id":67191,"date":"2020-07-22T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=67191"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:21:21","slug":"its-reminds-brock-community-to-enrol-in-mfa-as-cyber-attacks-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/07\/its-reminds-brock-community-to-enrol-in-mfa-as-cyber-attacks-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"ITS reminds Brock community to enrol in MFA as cyber attacks increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cyber attacks and account hacking are on the rise as hackers are targeting Canadian universities in hopes of stealing COVID-19 research. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To protect both individual Brock accounts and the University\u2019s data and systems, it is critical for all members of the Brock community to enrol in MFA as soon as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Once a faculty or staff member enrols, MFA will begin within 24 hours on their account. When a student enrols, MFA will begin on August 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The deadline to enrol for all faculty, staff and students is Oct 7. MFA will be required to access Office 365, Workday, Sakai, Remote Desktop Connections, <span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.brocku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my.brocku.ca<\/a><\/span><span class=\"None\"> and the new Virtual Teaching Computer Labs. Failing to enrol before the deadline means being unable to access these Brock systems. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">If a user requires a One-Time Verification (OTV) Code Generator physical token for MFA, the user will need to request it through Information Technology Services (ITS) Help Desk as soon as possible or they will not be able to access Brock applications after Oct 7.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">ITS is urging that all users enrol with their <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink1\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/multi-factor-authentication\/#1566522200544-b1b940be-4a3b1170-020b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">selected authentication method<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> as soon as possible to help keep the University protected from future cyber attacks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For more information about MFA, visit <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/multi-factor-authentication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Brock\u2019s ITS website<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> or watch ITS\u2019 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bhL97I2N4dg&amp;feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MFA video<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To protect both individual Brock accounts and the University\u2019s data and systems, it is critical for all members of the Brock community to enrol in MFA as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":67192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[3190,134,9279,9018,8986],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67205,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67191\/revisions\/67205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}