BUworks will be unavailable until 4:00 pm on Sunday, Jan 11

BUworks is currently unavailable for routine technical maintenance during our normal change window.  We apologize for any inconvenience. The system should be back up and available by 4:00 pm today.

Editing people.bu.edu requires Secure FTP beginning today

As described in a recent email message to those using people.bu.edu, use of Secure FTP is now required…

Beginning Tuesday, faculty and student employees will be enrolled in Duo Security for BUworks

Beginning Tuesday, October 14, all BU employees, including faculty and student employees, will be automatically enrolled in Duo Security for the BUworks Central Portal at www.bu.edu/buworkscentral. If you are not already enrolled in Duo, you will be prompted to enroll a device the first time you attempt to log in on or after October 14….

This week! Free shredding and disk/drive destruction for Information Security Week Oct 7-9

As part of the 4th Annual Information Security Awareness Week, IS&T’s Information Security team will be bringing a shredding truck to the locations described below. We will be on hand to accept custody of your paper documents to ensure they are immediately shredded.  In addition, we can assist with the destruction of hard drives, CDs…

Using Bash? Learn more about the ‘Shellshock’ vulnerability

We are providing detailed information about the recent Shellshock vulnerability on our Information Security site. Learn more! http://www.bu.edu/infosec/2014/09/26/gnu-bourne-again-shell-bash-shellshock-vulnerability/…

Faculty – learn more about TurningPoint 5!

Please join us to learn more about TurningPoint 5, the audience response (clicker) solution currently supported by IS&T…

Classroom Technology training is available for faculty

Training is available for the video and audio projection/presentation technology installed in the Office of the University Registrar (OUR) classrooms. Learn more!

It’s move-in time!

For assistance, contact the IT Help Center at 617-353-HELP (4357) or check out our Support section for information to help get you started!…

TurningPoint Cloud release and required ResponseWare account update

TurningPoint software will be moving to a cloud-based interface. Learn more!

More Lync training sessions added for faculty and staff

All faculty and staff are eligible to use Lync and more and more of you are now using it for instant messenging, on-line meetings, remote collaboration and more. Lync has been installed on most BU-owned computers and can also be used on your personal devices. Additional training sessions have recently been added for July and August. If you are not yet using Lync register now!