The Division of IT staff will be staggering their return to campus between August 1 and August 31. Preparations are underway for the start of the fall 2021 semester.
Read over the Technology Considerations for Employees’ Return to Campus page for helpful hints on a successful first day. Check out the Sunderland Foundation Innovation lab for the latest innovative technologies in Hale Library.
Infrastructure Projects
- Hale Library – working on minor adds and changes
- McCain Auditorium Expansion
- Athletics – South Endzone expansion
- Polytechnic campus building switch upgrades
- Olathe AV upgrades
- Various departmental transitions to private IP space
Reminders
- After July 5, all Zoom recordings older than 180 days are automatically moved to Zoom Trash.
- After August 1, IT will no longer retain any course content data from K-State Online, the homegrown Learning Management System, used from 2008-2013 and retired in 2016.
- Beginning August 1, Malware Bytes, a software tool, will be blocked from the campus network.
- On August 31, K-State’s existing personal webpage service will be retired. Faculty and staff can publish business-related content on their academic or administrative unit’s presence within the Content Management System (CMS). If you have a personal website, the URL would be http://www-personal.k-state.edu/~eid.
Maintenance
- HRIS, KSIS, and DARS will be unavailable from midnight – 4 a.m. on Sunday, July 11.
- The Financial Information System (FIS) will be unavailable from 6 p.m. Saturday, July 24, through 6 p.m. Sunday, July 25, for monthly maintenance.
Training
IT is working on delivering Cybersecurity Awareness Training through a portal format making it easier to access and track completion.
Phishing Scams and Compromised eIDs January 1 – June 30, 2021.
| YTD 2021 | YTD 2020 | YTD 2019 | |
| Compromised eIDs | 87 | 318 | 419 |
| Phishing scams | 609 | 796 | 837 |
| Phishing scam tickets processed | 2082 | 1905 | 2255 |
