KAUST IT is introducing KAUST Softphone, an extension to your existing business landline. It enables you to make phone calls at the office, on the move, and even when you are out of the country.

KAUST IT is pleased to announce the new learning event brought by IT Project Management Office: Adaptive Leading of Projects in a Digital World.

In order to secure highly confidential data, including Genome Human Data, we have enabled a new service called SDataWaha, which allows you to store data on DataWaha storage and archive system in a highly secure manner.

As part of the Digital Transformation Strategy, there was a major platform shift happening in our current Enterprise Data Warehouse Landscape during the period of March to June 2020. And right in between the project, we were hit by the Pandemic Lockdown. However, the entire project team mustered for the challenge and achieved the successful completion of the Project. The project was executed remotely with teams located in different countries, sharing great team spirit with a high sense of commitment to achieve our goals.

As a part of continuous Cyber Threat Intelligence, the Information Security Office has been notified by a credible source that passwords used on hungrycampus.com have recently been exposed and may be involved in a security breach.

WhatsApp users were recently notified of the app’s data-sharing practices with Facebook, and many have begun to seek alternatives. This article gives you a summary of WhatsApp’s recent policy update and a reminder for you to be a Human Firewall.

KAUST IT is happy to announce the launch of a newly automated service to handle your IT Equipment transfers through our KITS (KAUST IT Services) automation system.

KAUST IT is pleased to recommend a list of webinars and short courses curated by IT’s Project Management Office. The selected titles include topics related to project management, innovation and transformation enablement.

In line with ongoing enhancements to improve our services, KAUST IT is excited to roll out another exciting feature to our email services offering: Bulk Email Pre-Fixing.

KAUST IT is happy to announce that KAUST now has 5G coverage. enabling everyone at KAUST to enjoy better mobile connectivity.

KAUST IT would like to remind users of the importance of securing their online and social media accounts with simple tips on using multi-factor authentication and password managers to protect their data and secure their accounts.

Earlier this month, KAUST IT posted about email upgrades in this post on TheLENS: KAUST Email Upgrades: Enhancements to better secure your inbox. We would like to remind our Business and Academic Community members of the changes they will see in their email inboxes.

KAUST IT would like to remind the community of email digest services available to our academic and business community members.

Our university has to adapt to a fast-changing threat landscape by using advanced technology and introducing new ways to detect and neutralize email threats. As such, new tools are being implemented to improve your experience with better email management functions and security features.

KAUST IT is excited to inform Community members of FREE access to 10 new premium OSN channels; be sure to use our new application in order to access this offer for the next 6 months.

We met recently with Prof. Magdalena (Magda) Julkowska, an Assistant Professor at Boyce Thompson Institute, former Research Scientist in Prof. Mark Tester’s Salt Lab in the BESE division here at KAUST. Prof. Magda reached out to IT Research Computing for guidance on creating a website that KAUST publishes but gets its contents from a GitHub repository.

Article written by: Antonio Arena | October 27, 2020

As part of our efforts to improve the services we offer the Community, KAUST IT will be upgrading Personal Drive, or P-Drive; during this time all users’ accessibility may be impacted for a short amount of time.

This article covers some of the most frequently asked questions about Microsoft Office 365’s sharing capabilities that are built into its OneDrive and SharePoint applications.

Everyone at KAUST has an Office365 account; this article focuses on highlighting the use-cases of our storage and document collaboration applications and their differences to help you select the right tool for your work needs. Article written by: Daniel Nader | October 20, 2020

Starting on October 7th, the MathWorks Engineering Team will be hosting a series of live online webinars.

BinderHub allows you to build and register a Docker image from a Git repository, then connect with JupyterHub, allowing you to create a public IP address that allows users to interact with the code and environment within a live JupyterHub instance. You can select a specific branch name, commit, or tag to serve.

Article written by: Antonio Arena | October 1, 2020