{"id":1027,"date":"2020-02-12T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2020-02-12T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:33:19","slug":"safeguarding-your-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/2020\/02\/12\/safeguarding-your-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguarding Your Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1028 \" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2020\/02\/close-browser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2020\/02\/close-browser.jpg 781w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2020\/02\/close-browser-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2020\/02\/close-browser-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/>My.Scranton is a web-based portal that provides students, faculty and staff an entry point to key functionality, such as Outlook, SharePoint, Desire2Learn, and Ellucian Banner Self-Service and Administrative applications. Over the Fall semester, a new version of the portal was released that provides a cleaner, simpler, better-organized and responsive design.<\/p>\n<p>Many integrations within the my.scranton portal make use of single sign-on technology, allowing a user to provide their credentials once and be logged in seamlessly to other applications. This technology makes use of \u201ccookies\u201d stored in the browser, which are set to expire at the end of the browser\u2019s session.<\/p>\n<p>To safeguard your credentials, especially on a public computer or device, it is best practice to <strong>close your browser to destroy any \u201ccookies\u201d that were set for your single sign-on sessions to work<\/strong>. This is true for not only my.scranton, but for any web session where you enter credentials. Be safe and close your browser!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My.Scranton is a web-based portal that provides students, faculty and staff an entry point to key functionality, such as Outlook, SharePoint, Desire2Learn, and Ellucian Banner Self-Service and Administrative applications. Over the Fall semester, a new version of the portal was released that provides a cleaner, simpler, better-organized and responsive design. Many integrations within the my.scranton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}