MarComm Web Services Update | May 2021

Webpage of The Wharton School featuring the Philadelphia Campus. It shows students walking on a tree-lined path with historic buildings in the background.

Action Required for Wharton CMS Gravity Forms and CAPTCHA. There has been a recent and growing increase of abuse of Gravity Forms, where automated bot attacks have been attempting to compromise Wharton CMS websites. CAPTCHA is a fraud detection service that stops bots and other automated attacks while approving valid users, protecting your website from fraud and abuse.

Site editors responsible for Gravity forms maintenance will need to add CAPTCHA protection to ALL active Gravity Forms by close of business Friday, May 7, 2021. All active Gravity forms without CAPTCHA protection will be disabled after this date.Read More

GDPR: A Brief Guide

The image depicts the text "GDPR" surrounded by yellow stars on a blue map of Europe, symbolizing the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU.

The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, 2018, is intended to “harmonize” an approach to data protection across the European Union as well as provide greater protection and rights to EU citizens. The new regulations will have a broad effect on how organizations doing business in the EU or with EU citizens collect and handle data and potentially significant consequences for noncompliance.Read More