August 29, 2023
On Thursday, Sept. 7, ITS will implement a new login page for all Microsoft Office 365 accounts. Starting on this date, your O365 login page will look like this:
What am I responsible for should I manage an AWS self-service account?
- Resource Lifecycles: Self-service cloud accounts should not neglect resource lifecycle management. Users are responsible for properly managing and decommissioning resources they no longer require. Abandoned or underutilized resources can result in unnecessary costs and security vulnerabilities.
- Monitoring and Logging of resources: Monitoring and logging are essential for detecting and mitigating issues, identifying performance bottlenecks, and ensuring security. Self-service cloud accounts should include proper monitoring and logging practices to enable visibility into resource utilization, system health, and security events.
- Resource or application patching: Patching within the self-service accounts is the responsibility of the account owner.
Why should I open an AWS self-service account with ITS rather than directly with Amazon?
ITS would still provide a centralized oversight function. This ensures governance, compliance, and alignment with organizational policies and standards.
Are there any limitations on using an institutional AWS account?
Self-service cloud accounts are not intended for sensitive or confidential data. There are guidelines and access controls that are not in place to prevent unauthorized access or accidental exposure of sensitive information.
Accounts are also not suitable for hosting critical production systems or applications without proper governance and oversight. Mission-critical applications and systems may require specialized infrastructure, high availability, and more stringent operational processes that necessitate centralized management and monitoring.
For more information, please review our Cloud and AWS security standards.
What can I use an AWS self-service account for?
AWS accounts can be useful for several types of scenarios, including, but not limited to: developing and testing environments, running data for research or experimentation, creating hands-on training environments, innovating and prototyping proof-of-concepts, and for managing Agile and DevOps practices.
How do I open a self-service AWS account?
August 9, 2023
On Tuesday, Aug. 15, Weill Cornell Medicine is continuing to take important steps to enhance email security and protect our community from impersonation and phishing attacks. We will implement another phase of our security protocols (also known as DMARC) for inbound email from external senders.
July 26, 2023
Apple has released security patches to address critical vulnerabilities for multiple devices across its operating systems. ITS will deploy these security updates to your tagged Apple computer today. You will see a Software Update pop-up notifying you that the computer needs to be restarted for the update to install. Be sure to save your work before you restart.
July 20, 2023
ITS will be conducting a maintenance to update Cisco VPN on Thursday, July 20, from 9 p.m. – 11 p.m.
How will this affect you?
During the maintenance, you should not experience any interruption in service. However, the next time you log into VPN after the upgrade, you will see a prompt that will install the upgrade on your device.
