Safe Computing Training & Education

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Required of all employees, including faculty, staff, temporary, and student employees. (MM employees are required to take different training.)

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Learn to protect the university’s digital resources, your devices and accounts, and U-M data; stay safe online and avoid scams; report IT security incidents.

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U-M students on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.

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U-M students test their knowledge of online security and privacy by answering questions related to protecting devices and accounts; staying safe online and avoiding scams; and reporting phishing.

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Required of all U-M students on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.

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(Coming Summer 2026) Learn to protect the university’s digital resources, your devices and accounts, and U-M data; stay safe online and avoid scams; report IT security incidents.

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IT professionals and users of administrative systems; required for some units.

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Learn about the shared responsibility in protecting the university’s digital assets and how to safeguard institutional data (with a focus on HIPAA-, FERPA-, and PHI-regulated data) , staying safe online.

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ITS employees or unit IT who work with PCI systems and data, and their managers.

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An overview of how ITS protects the PCI infrastructure, the security safeguards that PCI requires, and how to follow PCI requirements when adding or maintaining devices in the PCI infrastructure.

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Employees who interact with Protected Health Information (PHI) as part of their normal job activities.

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A more advanced course about the importance of HIPAA compliance, appropriately accessing and sharing PHI, and your role in safeguarding PHI.

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Employees who interact with student records data.

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A more advanced course on how to responsibly handle student data in accordance with FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act).

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Faculty, students, staff, and others working on a sponsored project subject to CUI regulations, as identified by the U-M Research Information Security Oversight (RISO) office.

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This course introduces the federal regulations governing information deemed by a U.S. federal government agency to be CUI, and describes the basic security and procedural controls used to safeguard CUI. This course is required for U-M.

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SULs

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This course describes the Security Unit Liaison (SUL) role, overall expectations, how SULs coordinate security activities within the unit and in collaboration with IA, and highlights key responsibilities with scenarios. Deans or their equivalent designate SULs for their units.

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SULs

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This course outlines the goals of incident response at U-M, defines what an information security incident is and what makes it serious (per SPG 601.25), provides initial steps to take when responding to an incident, and describes the overall incident response process.

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SULs

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This course highlights capabilities IA offers in the areas of vulnerability management, endpoint protection, sensitive data discovery, and network security, and describes the SUL role in ensuring these capabilities are utilized in order to improve the unit’s security posture.

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SULs

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This course provides an overview of the Information Security Risk Management process, describes when RECONs (Risk Evaluations of Computers and Open Networks) are required, and gives SULs an introduction to the process of performing risk evaluations.

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Data Stewards and Custodians

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This course is designed for members of the U-M community who have data governance responsibilities or are interested in data governance. It will cover U-M's data governance program, the data stewardship framework, and the roles and responsibilities of Data Stewards and Data Custodians.

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Students

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Test your knowledge of what music, movies, books, and more you can and cannot share from your computer and mobile devices.

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