UNAIR NEWS – Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR), through the Directorate of Information Systems and Digital Transformation (DSITD), encouraged stronger collaboration among the academic community to maintain campus cybersecurity and digital resilience. These efforts were outlined by UNAIR DSITD Secretary Yutika Amelia Effendi SKom MKom during the Workshop on Synergy in Campus Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience, held at Bima Suci Hall, 2nd Floor, Airlangga Convention Center, on Monday, October 12, 2026.
Academic community collaboration to maintain cybersecurity
Effendi explained that managing digital security within the university requires support from many different parties. DSITD is not only responsible for domain and website security but also manages various digital services, including application development and the university email system. Given the large number of systems that need to be managed, collaboration with faculties, work units, and students is essential.
“Our goal at DSITD is to find a way for colleagues from faculties or work units, and fellow students, to help us at DSITD if a cyberattack occurs on UNAIR domains managed by faculties or work units,” she said.
She noted that one step the academic community can take is to report websites or domains that are no longer active. Domains that are no longer in use need to be evaluated to prevent them from becoming security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious actors.
According to Effendi, inactive domains are potentially more vulnerable if they are not properly managed. Therefore, reports from faculties and work units are necessary so that DSITD can take preventive measures before these vulnerabilities escalate into cyberattacks.
Strengthening digital literacy and monitoring digital vulnerabilities
Furthermore, Effendi emphasized that cyberattacks can occur at any time, including outside of business hours and during holidays. She cited an attack during this year’s Eid al-Fitr holiday that disrupted several of UNAIR’s digital services, including e-learning and Cyber Campus, leaving users unable to access them. This situation underscores the importance of continuous security monitoring and the involvement of various parties in anticipating potential cyberattacks.
Through the workshop, DSITD encouraged the academic community to raise awareness of information security while strengthening collaboration to safeguard the campus’s digital services. “We hope that colleagues from faculties and work units, and fellow students, can help us at DSITD with information security and with how we safeguard all application domains at Universitas Airlangga,” she stressed.
The event also featured a speaker from EC-Council, Agata Safira, in a workshop session on building awareness of cybersecurity and digital resilience in the AI era. The second speaker, Mardianta Putra Anggara, Red Team Coordinator of the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) at DSITD, introduced DSITD’s newest platform, RADAR, which makes it easier to monitor vulnerabilities and respond to cyber incidents at UNAIR.
Author: Katara Joy Kurniawan
Editor: Yulia Rohmawati
