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You may have heard that AI can help you brainstorm an outline or explain a tricky concept from a lecture. What you might not know is what happens to everything you type once you hit send. As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, here are a few habits worth building now, so AI stays a helpful tool instead of a liability.

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In Pitt GenAI Conversations: Student Perspectives, undergraduates from across Pitt's campuses talk candidly about how generative AI (GenAI) has worked its way into their everyday academic lives — sometimes by choice, and sometimes without much say in the matter at all.

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Pitt Digital led a migration of the University's security data platform to Microsoft Sentinel, completing the transition in just 68 days with support from data management tool Cribl. Cribl’s platform helped the team normalize and route security log data in real time, easing the shift while keeping costs down. The upgrade also simplified oversight of more than 1,000 University servers, giving Pitt’s cybersecurity team a more efficient, unified view for monitoring and responding to threats.

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Pitt Digital's Victoria Lancaster, executive director of AI Service Delivery, spoke at a Sept. 18 Staff Council Spotlight event on balancing AI's growing usefulness with governance and security concerns. She emphasized the need for senior leadership to set clear AI policies, noting that thousands of Pitt-affiliated users access AI tools like ChatGPT outside of University contracts, leaving that data unprotected.

We recently sat down with John Duska, Pitt’s Chief Information Security Officer. He’s spent more than 30 years at Pitt, and now, he leads a team that works to stay invisible. Here’s how John Duska navigates keeping one of the region’s largest universities secure — and why he still calls it the perfect job.

October means falling leaves, midterms, and our favorite: Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Pitt Digital’s cybersecurity team put together a full slate of events this year for students, and there’s something for every kind of Panther, whether you like in-person activities, friendly competition, or knocking out your trai

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Monitoring confirms the issue is fully resolved.

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Monitoring confirms the issue is fully resolved.

Monitoring confirms the issue has been fully resolved.

Monitoring confirms the issue has been fully resolved.

The vendor has resolved their intermittent issue and restored full service. Pitt Digital continues to monitor Salesforce closely to ensure continued reliability and stability of the service.

Between classes, work, and everything else you have going on, it’s easy to forget that web browser updates are a thing. But with so much of life happening online, taking time to protect your digital environment can help you avoid unwanted headaches later on. Here are 5 reasons it’s worth hitting “update” on your web browser now — like, right now.

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A mother says Facebook's Meta AI assistant volunteered a question asking who her daughter was in a video, then surfaced years of names, birth dates, photos, and location details about her kids. Meta told The Verge the feature never should have prompted questions like that and said it has fixed the issue.

Pitt Digital has resolved the issue that temporarily affected PRISM data availability in the University Data Warehouse. PRISM data has been refreshed and is up to date.

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