Dear Chapman Panthers,   As you may have already heard, over this past weekend IS&T successfully completed the Peoplesoft “Campus Solutions” 9.2 upgrade. We are aware that there is a new “look” to the system that may take some time to get used to.   We encourage users to contact the Service Desk at Servicedesk@chapman.edu for

Over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, IS&T successfully performed a major upgrade to the Peoplesoft “Campus Solutions” system to the latest 9.2 version. While this may not seem like much right now, this latest version is the foundation for future upgrades to Student Center and Faculty Center. After the upgrade you may have noticed some

Over the next several weeks, IS&T will be migrating all faculty and staff Outlook email accounts from our on-premise servers to Office 365 cloud. Moving to the cloud will offer users new and improved emailing features. Although the migration to the cloud is a big move, the user experience will remain the same. There will

Recently, the FBI released a statement warning universities around the country that hackers are targeting their payroll departments. Chapman University has already made the necessary changes and is staying ahead of the curve. THE SCAM: Hackers send out an email to university employees and faculty saying that there was an issue with their payroll information

One of the best ways to safeguard your Chapman University account is having a strong password. IS&T is now offering an additional layer of account protection called Two Factor Authentication (2FA). What is 2FA? Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) adds an extra layer of defense against cyber criminals by requiring to provide additional ID verification when accessing

On Friday, March 15th, starting at 5PM and ending midnight Sunday March 17th, PeopleSoft Campus Solutions will undergo system-wide maintenance for a software update. During this maintenance window the following services will be down: Manager Self-Service Student Self-Service (Student Center) My Self Service Advisor Self-Service (Advisor Center) Faculty Self-Service (Faculty Center) Peoplesoft Finance and HR

When it comes to phishing, there are no rules or boundaries. Cyber attackers will try anything to convince, trick, and even scare you into giving them access to your private information or money. Our information security team is continuously intercepting email phishing attempts on a daily basis. Some are more aggressive than others. One such

Encryption is one of the best tools used to keep information safe. IS&T is committed to keeping all sensitive data safe. When a file is encrypted, all the data is transformed into a combination of random shapes, numbers, characters, etc. thus rendering the file unreadable. As a result of the encryption, when a computer is

For Week 3 of National Cybersecurity Awareness month, we had a chance to explore the “Dangers of the Dark Web” and cryptocurrency. What is the dark web, you ask? In a nutshell, The Dark Web is an anonymous domain browser that allows users to look for goods and services  such as fire arms, narcotics, and