The latest news from the Office of Information Technology
spam
NACS employs many techniques to maximize the quality of the campus email system, and in particular to limit the amount of junk email (spam) faculty and staff receive. Known spam senders are automatically blocked, for example, and campus mail gateways require adherence to email standards (which spammers often ignore) before email is accepted for delivery.
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Faculty and staff often find it necessary to conduct research or other University business from off campus. NACS has been providing tools for this class of use for many years.
In particular, certain network resources (such as electronic journals licensed by the UCI Libraries) can only be accessed by authorized users, and that determination is based [...]
UCI faculty, staff, and students have access to a number of restricted online resources — most notably those licensed by the UCI libraries — such as Scifinder Scholar.
Because these resources are licensed specifically to members of the UCI community, however, access to them is normally limited to systems on the UCI network.
Users, however, sometimes need legitimate [...]
NACS has purchased a new device to offer yet another layer of network security for users of UCInet.
Called a VPN (for “Virtual Private Network”) the new Cisco 3060 VPN Concentrator offers a wide range of security features, depending on how and where you use UCI network resources.The main purpose of the VPN is to allow [...]
Note: The Web Proxy Gateway was replaced with the WebVPN.
NACS is pleased to announce the UCI Web Proxy Gateway. The Gateway allows UCI faculty, students and staff with active UCInetIDs to access UCI-restricted Internet WWW resources from non-UCI network locations. This means UCI community members who use commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as Pacific Bell [...]