You can now encrypt and control access to sensitive emails and documents directly in Microsoft 365. Sensitivity labels built-in to applications like Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint allow you to easily secure sensitive content and help to prevent unauthorized disclosure, modification, or duplication.While Pitt Digital strongly recommends that users share sensitive information via secure file-sharing platforms, sensitivity labels provide essential protections when email is your only option.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Pitt Information Technology is observing it by hosting three series of activities. Students, faculty and staff can earn $5 in Panther Funds during Oct. 18-29.

Coordinated through the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security (Pitt Cyber) and Pitt Information Technology, CyberCamp is based on the Air Force Association CyberPatriot curriculum. For Pitt Cyber, the program is about more than giving tech-minded high schoolers a good time while exposing them to cybersecurity concepts. It’s also about reaching out to a diverse group of students to raise awareness and create a path to cybersecurity careers, which also helps develop Western PA’s tech industry pipeline.

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month, and Pitt Information Technology invites students to participate in their 13-Day Cybersecurity Challenge. It all starts on Monday, Oct. 19, and runs daily through Halloween.