Your department can protect its computer, office, audio-visual, and scientific or lab equipment through the UW's Equipment Insurance Program. This low-cost property insurance covers damage from fire, flood, lightning, earthquake, theft, and more. See the list of eligible equipment or to do your annual renewal online.
Did you know you can register your personal electronic equipment such as a laptop or iPod online with UW Police? Recording the brand, serial and model numbers, and other details is vital to recovering your laptop or other electronic equipment if it's stolen. It only takes a few minutes.
All UW students, faculty, and staff are eligible to use the UW’s new centrally licensed anti-virus/anti-malware software from Sophos on their office and home computers at no cost. Start the quarter off right! This new software is available now from the UWare site. Get it today to help secure your computers.
The UW Internet Connectivity Kit (UWICK) CD-ROM is no longer available from the University Book Store as of Autumn Quarter 2009. However, now you can go to the new Tools for Safe and Secure Computing Web page for quick access to a basic set of software tools for fighting viruses, doing secure file transfer and terminal sessions, and other common tasks. All of the tools linked to on the page are free, either as freeware or because the UW has paid for the right for you to use them.