News & Events

WashU IT’s Project Management Guide for Continuous Improvement Committee is recruiting new members. This is open to anyone supporting projects ​that would benefit from using the PM Guide (e.g. Project Managers, Business Analysts, etc.). The goal of the committee is to ensure the PM Guide remains effective, relevant, and aligned with both evolving project management practices […]

Capacity planning has been selected as a top priority for WashU IT in FY26. This vital process ensures that the right resources are available at the right times and enables teams to effectively support the organization’s evolving technology needs.   Planview, WashU IT’s capacity planning tool, allows teams to track and allocate resources efficiently and generate […]

Applications are more powerful—and more expensive—than ever. That is why WashU IT adopted Ardoq, an enterprise architecture platform that enables the visualization of IT systems from different angles.  Ardoq can be used to visualize IT systems from different angles—like individual applications, how they connect, their importance, and who manages them.  As departments adopt increasingly sophisticated […]

Brian Allen has officially stepped into the role of Associate Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Research, Teaching, and Learning.  Allen joined WashU in 2005 as the university’s first Network Security Analyst. Since then, he’s played a key role in defending our online environment, most recently as a Director of Information Security.   As a Certified […]

WashU IT has enhanced Microsoft M365 Defender email security by incorporating Abnormal, an email security platform that detects and prevents advanced email attacks.  Since the July 3 go-live, the new tool has already prevented the delivery of numerous malicious emails that were very sophisticated in nature to WashU mailboxes, thereby limiting the risk of a […]