Protect yourself, and your family
Cybersecurity Awareness
Here you will find a number of useful resources for increasing your cybersecurity awareness. This will help you protect yourself, and your family, from cyber attacks.
- Find out why cybersecurity is so important.
- Access online cybersecurity training courses.
- Improve your password skills.
- Learn how to recognize phishing.
- Understand links and URLs.
- Increase your device security with software.
- Discover useful online tools.
- Subscribe to newsletters and blogs.
- Obtain downloadable resources.
Social Insurance Number Collection
Due to changes from the Canada Revenue Agency, Athabasca University is now required to collect Social Insurance Numbers for official income tax receipts. This is for any student who took a course in 2019. Learn more at this link: https://www.athabascau.ca/finance/student-social-insurance-number-faqs.html
Information on protecting your Social Insurance Number can be found on the Government of Canada website: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/sin/protect.html
Join the discussion
A Yammer group has been created for AU Team Members to discuss cybersecurity related topics. Please join the discussion.
Yammer Cybersecurity Awareness Group
Updated March 21, 2023 by Digital & Web Operations, University Relations (web_services@athabascau.ca)