Category: E-mail

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Cybersecurity in the Workplace

Week 3 of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month focuses on cybersecurity in the workplace. No matter your role at the College, you are an important line of defense in keeping the organization safe online. Stay vigilant to threats and keep these best practices in mind. Don’t click on a link or open an attachment if you suspect…Continue Reading National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Cybersecurity in the Workplace

Safe Sender List

Why did a student’s email end up in my junk email folder? The College faculty and staff junk email folder is managed locally. You can add email addresses and domain names that you trust to the Safe Senders List. This way, messages from those sources are never considered as ‘junk’. You can add g.cofc.edu to your…Continue Reading Safe Sender List

Outlook Web App Security Features

One of the security features of the Outlook Web App (OWA) is your ability to monitor and administer all of the devices that you may use to connect to your College email account. With OWA, you can ensure that only the devices that you have authorized to sync are connected, as well as delete the accounts of old devices no…Continue Reading Outlook Web App Security Features

Spam Filter Upgrade to the Faculty and Staff Email System (CofC.edu)

Date: January 25, 2014 Time: 5:00PM Description: On Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 5:00PM, Information Technology will upgrade a critical component of the faculty and staff email system (CofC.edu). This upgrade will provide improved spam, virus, and phishing protection. There will be no disruption in service and no email will be lost during the upgrade….Continue Reading Spam Filter Upgrade to the Faculty and Staff Email System (CofC.edu)

How to update a change in your personal email account on My Charleston

1)    Click on “View Your Addresses and Phones for CougarAlert”.  This is located on your home tab.           2)    Click on the student tab     3)    Then click back onto the personal information tab.     4)    Then you can click on “update E-mail Addresses” to update your personal email…Continue Reading How to update a change in your personal email account on My Charleston

Microsoft Exchange Server Upgrade for Faculty/Staff at the College of Charleston

Information Technology is beginning implementation of a new Microsoft Exchange 2010 server that will modernize our communication capabilities on campus!  This project has been in the planning phase for several months and we are proud to announce that we are about to begin the implementation phase of the project.  Our new Exchange 2010 server offers…Continue Reading Microsoft Exchange Server Upgrade for Faculty/Staff at the College of Charleston

Don’t fall for the phish trick

The Oxford English Dictionary defines phishing as “Fraud perpetrated on the Internet; spec. the impersonation of reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers, online.” Everyday thousands of email messages are sent to and from the College of Charleston.  Unfortunately some of these messages are…Continue Reading Don’t fall for the phish trick

Phishing on the rise, don’t take the bait!

College of Charleston students, faculty, and staff are frequently the target of phishing attacks which attempt to trick users into providing their login, password, id number, pin number, or other personal information. A phisher sends you an email that claims to be from a business or organization that you may deal with — for example,…Continue Reading Phishing on the rise, don’t take the bait!

Google Apps for Students Launched

We are excited to announce the launch of Google Apps for our students, including “CMail”. This is the replacement system for Edisto email. A group of SGA members have been pilot testing this system since January. Google Apps offers significantly improved mail service for our students, with storage limits exceeding 7.5 gigabytes, messages up to 20 megabytes,…Continue Reading Google Apps for Students Launched