How secure is the information displayed in the My UW-Madison portal?
• Access to the My UW-Madison portal is secured according to best practices for web security. The NetID and password are conveyed using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and the password is encrypted before transmission over the Internet. After typing your NetID and your password (which is encrypted on the login page and shows up only as dots or asterisks) at the login page of the My UW-Madison portal my.wisc.edu and hitting ‘login’, the user is automatically directed to a secure login processing page. The NetID and password are not stored on the login page of the My UW-Madison portal but are passed through to the secure page and authentication is checked to ensure the NetID and password are valid. Additional information about My UW-Madison, including its security, can be found by clicking the ‘About My UW-Madison’ link on the login page. The largest threat to the security of the data comes from users voluntarily sharing their NetID and password with others.
Access to the My UW-Madison portal is secured according to the best practices for web security. The NetID and password are conveyed using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and the password is encrypted before transmission over the Internet. After typing your NetID and your password (which is encrypted on the login page and shows up only as dots or asterisks) at the login page of the My UW-Madison portal my.wisc.edu and hitting ‘login’, the user is automatically directed to a secure login processing page. The NetID and password are not stored on the login page of the My UW-Madison portal but are passed through to the secure page and authentication is checked to ensure the NetID and password are valid. Additional information about My UW-Madison, including its security, can be found by clicking the ‘About My UW-Madison’ link on the login page. The largest threat to the security of the data comes from users voluntarily sharing their NetID and password with others.
