Stay Secure

Using electronic services provided by Drexel following Drexel's policies and best practices so that you can protect the personal information that Drexel manages. Working remotely adds an additional responsibility to ensure that the device that you use made and kept secure. This page tells you how to do both and how to connect to Drexel services not open to the public. 

Personal Security: Drexel Policies and Best Practices

Maintaining a good level of security can be challenging. To make it easier to achieve without a degree in information security, we've put together some best practices to guide you, links to applicable policies for people who like want the nitty-gritty, and pointers to other sources of information

• Best Practices
• Policies and Regulations
• Helpful Links

The Drexel IT News pages often contain articles and advice on security issues of the day.

Phishing Reminders

Drexel will NEVER ask you to:

• Give out your password
• "Verify" sign-in credentials
• Download unsolicited email attachments

Device Security: Maintaining Personal and Off-campus Devices

Faculty and Professional Staff should use Drexel-owned and Drexel-managed devices to access Drexel resources and services. These devices use Drexel-approved data encryption and received regular updates for Sophos Anti-Virus, macOS and Windows.

Faculty and professional staff bringing a Drexel-owned loaner device home for the first time MUST sign-in from the device at least once from the campus to ensure that user account profiles, settings, updates, and files are set up. This initial setup cannot be done from off-campus.

Faculty and professional staff using a Drexel-provided computer or device from home should sign in to the Drexel VPN on at least a week for a few hours to ensure that software updates are applied.

Personal devices used by students (and others only if necessary) should have their macOS and Windows operating systems set to update automatically and should install and update anti-virus software.