How to Recognize and Report a Cyber Security Incident

1. Go to the Office of Information Technology (OIT) website at indstate.edu/oit to: OIT Services and Resources

2. Click the Service Catalog and select Security

3. Click Security Report an Incident

Examples of known or suspected security incidents that must be reported:

-Attempts (failed or successful) to gain unauthorized access to a system or its data

-Giving your username and password to someone else

-Loss of printed information that is not public

-Loss of a physical storage device containing data that is not public (e.g. a flash drive, an external hard drive, a laptop with such data on its hard drive)

-A virus or malware infection of an institutional computer

Note: Receiving a fraudulent email is not an incident unless it has led to an event listed above.

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