As part of Information Technology Services' (ITS) continued efforts to improve the security and general user experience of University of Toronto (U of T) email, ITS has rolled out new email safety tips to all community members' email accounts. This new security feature provides intelligent, unobtrusive and finetuned protection against cyberattacks.
Please note: This solution will replace the previous external email banner. The safety tips will only appear on emails in the scenarios described below.
As of September 7, 2021, external emails will no longer display the external email banner. Instead, users will ONLY see safety tips at the tops of their emails in the following scenarios.
All U of T email users will see the following safety tips when:
A smaller group of U of T email users who are enrolled in Secure U of T advanced threat protection (ATP) policies will see the above safety tips in addition to the following scenario-based safety tips. These include safety tips when:
A full list of the safety tips that users enrolled in ATP may see can be found in this knowledge base article.
No, the external email banner has been retired. Instead, you will only see safety tips in the scenarios described above.
Most users find these security features integrate into their workflows seamlessly. When a safety tip is displayed in an email, it will take up preview space, but as the system learns, it will trigger these warnings less often.
If you get a malicious email, we ask that you report it to Information Security by forwarding the email to report.phishing@utoronto.ca.
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