Keeping your email secure is a critical part of protecting both your personal information and the broader campus community. This resource provides information on important aspects of email security to consider.
- Use MFA: Always use multi-factor authentication for institutional logins.
- Spot Spear-Phishing: Be skeptical of unexpected emails that reference your specific course codes or ask you to click links to “verify grades”.
- Check Email Rules: Review your inbox settings at the start of each term to ensure no unauthorized forwarding rules have been created.
- Report, Don’t Delete: Forward suspicious messages to security@ubc.ca so they can block the sender and protect the rest of the campus community.
For more information on keeping your email secure, you can visit:
- https://privacymatters.ubc.ca/news/identifying-reporting-suspicious-emails
- https://privacymatters.ubc.ca/resources/wherever-you-work