[Coehd] The Blocking of Prohibited Applications on UTSA Network

COEHD, UTS is blocking several applications begin today at 7pm as per the Texas Senate Bill 1893. Please see details below. BLOCKING PROHIBITED APPLICATIONS – CHG0042873: Blocking of prohibited applications as directed by the office of the Texas government. Change by Cyber Operations (CO) – Samuel Barrera. * This change is scheduled for Wednesday, July 2nd, starting at 7:00 PM lasting Saturday, July 5th, until 2:00 AM, and its scope is the blocking of prohibited applications as directed by Texas Senate Bill 1893 and Governor Greg Abbott’s executive directives. * To comply with Texas Senate Bill 1893 and Governor Greg Abbott's executive directives, this change request implements technical controls to block the use of prohibited applications on UTSA devices and networks. * During this maintenance work, user access to the following application services on UTSA networks and on UTSA computing assets will be prohibited and blocked: * Alipay * ByteDance Ltd. * CamScanner * DeepSeek * Kaspersky * Lemon8 * Moomoo * QQ Wallet * RedNote * SHAREit * Tencent Holdings Ltd. * Tiger Brokers * TikTok * VMate * WeBull * WeChat * WeChat Pay * WPS Office * Reference: https://dir.texas.gov/information-security/covered-applications-and-prohi... If you have any questions, please email TechCafe@utsa.edu<mailto:TechCafe@utsa.edu> or COEHDIT@utsa.edu<mailto:COEHDIT@utsa.edu> Thank you, Contact University Technology Solutions (UTS) by email, TechCafe@utsa.edu<mailto:TechCafe@utsa.edu> or by phone (210)458-5555. Need to schedule an appointment with the COEHD IT Team, email COEHDIT@utsa.edu<mailto:COEHDIT@utsa.edu> or BOOK your next technical appointment with COEHDIT<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/COEHDIT1@utsacloud.... -COEHD IT Associates: Lisa Romo | Esther Martinez, MSIT -COEHD IT Operations Manager: Marisol Johnson, MSIT