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New Service to Safeguard Email

Links and attachments will be scanned before being delivered. 

To protect Duke account holders and the university’s network, as of June 1, 2016, OIT will enable a new email security product called Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) from the secuerity company, Proofpoint, to help protect against targeted email attacks and phishing attempts. It works two ways:

  • URL defense – scans and rewrites all email urls, and blocks malicious links.
  • Attachment defense – scans and blocks malicious attachments.

Most users will not notice any difference. However, all links will now be rewritten by Proofpoint. Once enabled, mousing over a URL will show an address beginning with: “urldefense/proofpoint…” indicating that Proofpoint has reviewed the link. It is still imperative that you continue to carefully choose what they click on.

If the link is malicious, users will see a notification in their browser like the following:

Proofpoint

Read more about Proofpoint TAP and how it works at Duke.  Also, check out this Duke Today article.

If you believe a URL has been blocked unnecessarily (false positive) or believe a fraudulent site has not been blocked (false negative), please contact the OIT Service Desk.

Recall a sent email with Gmail

Gmail users, Google announced a new feature that gives you the ability to recall a sent email.  Options include 5, 10, 20 and 30 seconds.  To read more about enabling this feature, go to: http://bgr.com/2015/06/23/how-to-recall-email-in-gmail/

Students, your email is changing starting Feb. 3

office365

Students will transition to a new email system beginning Feb. 3 as part of Duke’s move to Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-based service that will provide increased mailbox size and an improved web interface. Email will be accessible through a web browser or using recent Microsoft Outlook clients, but some configuration changes will be necessary. Students should watch their inboxes for notification in advance of their scheduled move date and for specific instructions. For details, visit mail.duke.edu.

 

Duke Moving Email System to The Cloud

Duke will migrate to Microsoft Office 365 in early 2013. To read about this upcoming transition, go here: http://today.duke.edu/2012/10/cloudemail

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