Cyber security alerts and advisories
- Michael Laurentius
Purpose
Security alerts and advisories inform you of possible vulnerabilities to your system or project and can provide you with recommended mitigations and solutions to secure your work.
Audience
faculty researchers Admin staff IT staff students
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Initial considerations
Maintain an asset inventory.
Maintain a device and service inventory so you are aware if alerts and advisories are relevant to your systems.
Patch and update frequently.
Ensure that you are regularly (or ideally, automatically) updating and patching your systems, in addition to other practices to maintain a secure system.
What can I do?
Visit Security Matters for issues relevant to the U of T community.
Visit Alerts and Advisories by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.
Visit and subscribe to Alerts by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US).
Alerts and advisories often link to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue, which is an authoritative source for vulnerabilities that have been exploited.
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Additional help
General
Contact us | Information Security (IS)
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Researchers
Research Information Security - Information Security at University of Toronto
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