IT Services
SFU needs to take greater measures to protect our data
March 14, 2021by Nancy La, SFU Student SFU prides itself on keeping its community safe from harm, yet its cybersecurity (or the lack thereof) paints a different image. SFU’s servers were hacked on February 3, exposing the personally identifiable data of over 200,000 past and current students and staff. This wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either; SFU also had data exposures in 2016 and 2020. SFU’s lack of support for their IT department and options for those whose data was exposed reveal the school’s inability to keep up with modern cybersecurity demands. The school should reflect on the…
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Data breach exposes SFU users’ personally identifiable information
March 8, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer On February 3, 2021, there was an eight-minute data breach from an SFU server. IT services discovered the attack two days later and blocked external access to the server immediately. Faculty, staff, and students…
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SFU to introduce its own virtual private network
September 12, 2020Written by: Mahdi Dialden, News Writer SFU has prepared a new Virtual Private Network (VPN) service ready to launch in September. This will allow students to connect directly to SFU servers and enables them to send and receive data that…
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