With increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks targeting higher education and healthcare institutions, passwords alone are no longer a sufficient way to protect resources. Two-factor authentication decreases the risk of compromises and data breaches by making a username and password alone insufficient for accessing sensitive resources. Two-factor authentication is something that you have, like a mobile device, as well […]
The Knowledge Base (KB) is the central repository for LITS IT documentation and the key component of Emory’s Knowledge Management process. The ITSMO Team wanted to recognize two of its most prolific users to exemplify how useful the tool can be for all of LITS. Messaging Team – Jay Flanagan “One of the things my team […]
Elliot Kendall rejoined the Security Team and has been doing security scanning and audits and working on the two-factor authentication project. He spent the past 18 months performing a Shibboleth implementation for the University of California – San Francisco. Before heading west, Elliot was a member of the Emory’s Integration and Security teams, where he […]
Ashley Spink comes to the Security Team to focus on the identification and elimination of threats to the network. He previously worked at the University of Georgia where he focused on security for 12 years, but was a system admin at the departmental level prior to being an IT analyst at the enterprise level. Born in […]
Larry Knotts joins the Security Team with a broad background in IT security. His main role will be monitoring compliance to certification and accreditation standards, which fall under Federal Information Systems Management Act (FISMA). Before coming to Emory, Larry spent eight years doing security contract work at the CDC for Lockheed Martin, Unisys, and Northrup […]