{"id":68428,"date":"2020-10-06T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=68428"},"modified":"2020-10-06T21:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T01:03:34","slug":"reminder-deadline-for-brock-employees-students-to-enrol-in-mfa-is-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/10\/reminder-deadline-for-brock-employees-students-to-enrol-in-mfa-is-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Deadline for Brock employees, students to enrol in MFA is Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The deadline to join Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is now less than 24 hours away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The University is encouraging all members of the Brock community to join MFA by Wednesday, Oct. 7 to not only protect their individual data and accounts, but also to protect Brock&#8217;s data and accounts from cyber security attacks.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">All staff, faculty and students must go through the online on-boarding process by selecting one of <\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><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\">these authentication methods<\/a><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> and following the setup process outlined on <\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/multi-factor-authentication\/#1566523411846-0efe6161-ac5b1170-020b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the ITS website<\/a><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. MFA will begin on the user\u2019s account within 24 hours. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cUniversities across Canada are facing an increasing number and variety of threats to their cyber security,\u201d said Lynn Wells, Provost and Vice-President, Academic. \u201cTo keep our teaching, learning and research activities safe, we\u2019re introducing the MFA process. It\u2019s easy to initialize and will help to keep Brock community members safe, especially during this period when technology is so important for our daily activities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For more information, visit <\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/service-catalogue\/security-and-access\/multi-factor-authentication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock\u2019s MFA website<\/a><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> or watch the <\/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> below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">If users face any difficulties with Brock\u2019s applications on Oct. 7, they should contact the ITS Help Desk at <\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"mailto:ithelp@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ithelp@brocku.ca<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhL97I2N4dg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline to join Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is now less than 24 hours away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":68429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[180,6655,8809,9279,8986],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68428"}],"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=68428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68441,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68428\/revisions\/68441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}