Unfortunately, this workshop was cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.Join the Cybersecurity Training and Awareness team to explore a straightforward approach to assessing and improving your personal cybersecurity. This interactive workshop will equip you tools to evaluate and enhance the safety of your digital life, from home networks and IoT devices to personal accounts and […]
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WIT: Resume Review Crew Panel
Description: Panel of Resume Reviewers from Women in Technology (WIT) at Illinois: an introduction to how to get help, what areas/specialties we each have, and a call for more volunteers to review resumes.We will explain how to reach us for resume help, why you might want help, some of the challenges/considerations we had while creating […]
Automating Data Management with Azure: Streamlining SQL and Power BI Pipelines
Description: This presentation showcases how to leverage Azure to automate data pipelines, including SQL and Excel, to provide data reports and Power BI dashboards. In the presentation, we detail two projects built by the Data Strategy, Analytics, and Reporting team at Gies College of Business to improve data management and information access. First, we will […]
Attendance Analytics from A to Z: Turning (Asana) Tasks into (Zoom) Teaching Insights
Description: For the past several years, we have developed and implemented a robust data pipeline for tracking Zoom attendance in synchronous online courses through a fully operational dashboard where instructors and learning designers can monitor weekly attendance for live class sessions. A key element of our approach is the integration of session details from a […]
Name that Company! Harmonizing Data Standardization Across Campus and Beyond
At IT Partners in the Gies College of Business, we’ve been tackling the challenge of standardizing company names for some time now. As we process data from various sources, we encounter a wide range of discrepancies, inconsistencies, and duplications in company name formatting and hierarchies. Currently, our efforts to clean and standardize these names are […]
Apple’s 2024 Fall Update
Description: Fall update on macOS, iOS and AppleTV at Illinois. Mike Kimmel, our campus Apple System Engineer, will be on hand to answer questions. Presenters: Track: Updates Experience Needed: All Levels Learning Outcome: Maximum Capacity: No maximum capacity Additional Keywords: Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPad Time: 1 pm November 12
IT Strategic Planning Update
The last campuswide IT strategic plan was developed in 2013; much has changed over 11 years. The Academic Program Review and Big Ten Academic Alliance Peer Review, completed in January 2024, identified five recommendations to help Illinois provide best-in-class IT to the university. The IT strategic plan is a comprehensive blueprint that outlines how technology […]
Building a Test Environment to Safely Study Self-Propagating Malware
In May of 2024 the Information Trust Institute worked with an industry partner in the insurance sector to study the effectiveness of self-propagating malware in various network topologies. To facilitate this investigation ITI constructed a malware testbed that allowed the malware to propagate through windows 10 networks of various configurations without allowing the worm to […]
Splunk: An Introduction
Splunk is a incredibly powerful tool to help make sense of all the data your infrastructure and applications produce, and in this session we will get to know the campus service. We will cover getting data in, searching and reporting, and ways to access educational resources. About this event: Presenters: Track: Service/Unit Overviews and Updates […]