Identity Management Day - UCF Information Security

This Tuesday, 4/13 is the first-annual Identity Management Day! Presented by the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA), this day will emphasize the importance of identity management. According to the IDSA, digital identities “and the credentials that protect them define how we work, interact with each other” and more.

To celebrate Identity Management Day, UCF InfoSec would like to highlight how identity management impacts you and share steps you can take to protect your online identity.

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What is Identity Management?

Identity management determines who you are and what resources you are authorized to access. Here at UCF, when you sign in to myUCF or Webcourses, do you think about what has to happen to grant you access? Members of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Team do! They oversee the systems that reliably identify, authenticate, and authorize student and employee accounts to access university resources at the right time and for the right business reason.

How Does identity management benefit me as a student?

As a student, the UCF IAM Team provides you:

Single Sign On for UCF accounts
Protection for UCF Accounts
- Multi-Factor Authentication for Knights Email

How Does identity management benefit me as an employee?

As an employee, the UCF IAM Team provides you:

Single Sign On for UCF accounts
Access Management & Account Provisioning
AI-based protection technology

What is Single sign on (SSO)?

Commonly refered to as 'federation,' Single Sign On is a service that allows you to use your UCF credentials to log in to over 200 websites. Without this service, you would have to create an account for each site you needed to use and remember each one of those passwords!

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What can I do to better protect my online identity here at UCF?

Taking steps to protect your online accounts now can save you time and frustration later. We recommend starting with the following:

Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to protect your UCF email.
Regularly check your personal details within myUCF:
- personal email address
- phone number with SMS carrier
- direct deposit information
Update anything that’s out of date, and if any details have been changed without your knowledge, notify the Security Incident Response Team at SIRT@ucf.edu.
Pay close attention to any notifications you receive informing you that personal information has changed. When your personal information within myUCF is changed, automated notifications are sent to your email addresses on file. If you receive a notification about a change you did not make, alert the Security Incident Response Team immediately.
Set unique, complex passwords for each account, and never share passwords between accounts or reuse old passwords. This will help reduce the risk should one of your passwords become compromised. InfoSec strongly recommends using password managers to keep track of your account credentials.

UCF InfoSec and the Identity and Access Management Team wish everyone a happy Identity Management Day!