{"id":68359,"date":"2020-10-01T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=68359"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:30:27","slug":"reminder-deadline-to-enrol-in-mfa-for-all-brock-community-members-is-oct-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/10\/reminder-deadline-to-enrol-in-mfa-for-all-brock-community-members-is-oct-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Deadline to enrol in MFA for all Brock community members is Oct. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyA\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Brock has seen an increase of <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/cyber-security-awareness-and-training\/phishing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">phishing scams<\/span><\/a><span class=\"None\">, which highlights the urgency for greater cyber security protection.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In these phishing attacks, scammers pose as service providers attempting to change specific banking information. Staff, faculty and students are urged to stay aware and not engage in any suspicious emails. Contact <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"mailto:itsecurity@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">itsecurity@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span class=\"None\"> to report any suspicious emails.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To defend against these continuous threats, Brock is requiring all members of the University community to enrol in MFA <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">to avoid any cyber security attacks on their individual accounts and on the University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To enrol in MFA, employees and students should go through the on-boarding process by selecting one of <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/multi-factor-authentication\/%2525231566522200544-b1b940be-4a3b1170-020b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink1\">these authentication methods<\/span><\/a><span class=\"None\"> and following the setup steps found on the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/multi-factor-authentication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink1\">ITS website<\/span><\/a><span class=\"None\">. MFA will begin on the user\u2019s account within 24 hours after enrolling. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For more information, visit <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/multi-factor-authentication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">Brock\u2019s MFA website<\/span><\/a><span class=\"None\"> or watch the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bhL97I2N4dg&amp;feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">MFA video<\/span><\/a><span class=\"None\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\"><span class=\"None\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Any questions can be directed to the ITS Help Desk at <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"mailto:ithelp@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink1\">ithelp@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock has seen an increase of phishing scams, which highlights the urgency for greater cyber security protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":68360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[180,6655,9279,8813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68359"}],"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=68359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68361,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68359\/revisions\/68361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}