Archive for July, 2023

Please be advised, beginning Friday, July 28, 2023, at 6:00 PM through Sunday, July 30, 2023, approx. 6:00 PM, BUworks Finance, Human Resources, and Procurement services will undergo a scheduled downtime. This is necessary to perform updates to the BUworks platform. During this time, all BUworks services will be unavailable. This includes time entry submission…

As a researcher you may have noticed an increase in what your sponsors are asking for in cybersecurity assurances. We are here to help! From reviewing a Data Use Agreement to securely storing data at the end of a research project, our goal is to reduce your security and compliance burdens, letting you do what…

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In late May, Boston University became aware of a vulnerability in a file transfer software package called “MoveIT” made by Progress Software.  The federal Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an advisory on this topic on June 1st. Boston University is not a customer of MoveIT and was not directly affected by this vulnerability. We have…

We are currently facing a delay in synchronizing the Active Directory (AD) from our on-premises system to the Microsoft cloud Active Directory environment….

We are currently facing a delay in synchronizing Active Directory (AD) from our on-premises system to Microsoft Office 365 servers. This delay is affecting various functions, including password changes and the provisioning of O365 accounts….

This is expected behavior, related to the fact that the University contract with Adobe is renewing this week….

IS&T teams have resolved the incident….