In The News: Office of Information Technology
The university’s creative approach helps overcome staffing limitations and gives students the real-world experience they need to land cybersecurity jobs after graduation.
Institutions are responding with different combinations of approved tools, access controls and campuswide coordination. For example, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas offers free and department-funded AI services with varying levels of data protection
Higher education IT teams wear many hats. Beyond just managing trouble tickets, they support human resources processes, facilitate student application and enrollment workflows and, of course, handle network security.
In 2024 alone, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported over 859,500 internet crime complaints. Total losses exceeded $16 billion, with the highest total losses (nearly $5 billion) suffered by those 60 and over.
According to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, these tips can help you avoid a phishing scam
What do voice cloning, deepfakes, and phishing have in common? They're all versions of artificial intelligence (AI) scams.

The master of science in cybersecurity program at UNLV launched in 2021 with a handful of students. Now, it’s graduated nearly seven times that and recently came in second on a ranking of master’s in cybersecurity programs for 2025 by Fortune.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), located less than two miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, is a public research university with a diverse student body of over 31,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. No stranger to leveraging technology to enhance the educational experience, UNLV was one of the first higher education institutions to adopt lecture capture across their sprawling urban campus.
Back in 2009 Kivanc Oner became Executive Director of Enrollment Technology at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, in 2024, as CIO for the same institution he is just completing a major modernization of the technology estate, including student enrollment. His story is one of the need to keep up with the demands of students and customers, and to continually improve processes and technologies.
Teaching is hard work, right? Data from a 2022 Gallup Panel Workforce Study found that K-12 education employees are the most exhausted, with 44% of such respondents saying they feel always/often burned out at work, followed by college/university workers on 35%.
When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the Internet, many college students used the generative AI tool to author papers on their behalf -- much to the chagrin of academia. But Salesforce's upcoming GenAI tools aim to enhance learning and academic support services.
With the Panopto certification, the Epiphan Pearl Family will help improve classroom engagement and learning outcomes in higher education.