The University of Cumbria currently has a priority objective of maintaining Cyber Essentials Accreditation and aims to have Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed, industry-supported certification scheme that outlines a set of basic technical controls that all organisations should implement to defend against the most prevalent forms of cyber-attacks.
A key element of Cyber essentials is making all systems used by the university to hold student data more secure using Multi Factor Authentication and/or Single Sign On (SSO)
Increased access security in APTEM will be achieved using Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) -This involves users accessing the system needing to enter a second randomly generated code in addition to their password at the log in stage. This will be achieved by users receiving a code sent to a pre agreed e-mail or telephone number.
Multi factor Authentication in APTEM will be implemented for all users from Monday 28th October 2024.
Your authenticator e-mail will go to the e-mail address that is registered in your APTEM account so you will need to consider what e-mail account your logged into when accessing APTEM
Changing Contact e-mail in APTEM
To change your CONTACT e-mail from APTEM console
- log into your account and click your initials at the top right of the screen and select “settings”
- In the account settings screen select “about you”
- Select the edit pen in the “contact” section
- You will then be able to edit your contact E-mail address and save the changes
This will Not change the e-mail address you use to log into APTEM