Report an incident
A computer security incident at UCT involves an IT resource at University of Cape Town that has the potential of having an adverse effect on the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of that resource or connected resources.
Security incidents could involve, but are not limited to, any of the following:
- attempted or successful breaches of facilities or systems that store confidential information (either paper-based or in electronic format)
- theft of devices such as smartphones, tables,laptops, portable hard drives or flash drives containing UCT information
- the presence of a virus, spyware, ransomware or any other malicious program
- the loss, corruption or compromise of any UCT data
- compromised user accounts or login details (e.g. sharing or hacking of passwords or access details)
- posting restricted or confidential data to publicly-accessible websites
- sending restricted or confidential data to unauthorized recipients
- any violation of the UCT computer security policies and standards
How do I report a computer security incident? You can log an incident by sending an email to UCTcsirt@uct.ac.za
