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Institutional development · Digital transformation, data and AI · Brazil

Brazil's Federal University of Santa Catarina runs digital security campaign against phishing

The IT secretariat at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) is running an awareness campaign calling on the whole university community to help improve digital security, starting with phishing.

Photo: Airtonjordani / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why it matters: The whole university community at the Federal University of Santa Catarina is the audience for a campaign whose first initiatives target phishing fraud.

The Federal University of Santa Catarina reported that Setic, its Secretariat of Electronic Governance and Information and Communication Technology, is running a campaign to raise awareness of digital security.

According to the university, the campaign stresses that the entire university community needs to be involved in improving digital security.

The university said the campaign's first initiatives are aimed at combating phishing, a form of digital fraud carried out by scammers.

Editor’s view

Sarah Williamson, Teaching, Digital and AI Editor

The campaign is addressed to the whole UFSC university community, and the university said its first initiatives are directed at combating phishing.

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