Northwestern University incident

Virtual Private Network (VPN) Service Interruption

Resolved after 1 hour 10 minutes, affecting Remote Access -Virtual Private Network (VPN) (Network Connectivity), on September 22, 2026.

monitoring Sep 22, 2026, 02:15 PM UTC

IT support staff have implemented a fix, and services are restoring at this time. IT support staff will monitor to ensure all services are fully restored. The next update will be provided by 10:00 CDT

Started
Sep 22, 2026, 01:46 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 22, 2026, 02:56 PM UTC
Duration
1h 10m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 22, 2026, 01:46 PM UTC

Affected components

Remote Access -Virtual Private Network (VPN) (Network Connectivity)

Update timeline

  1. identified Sep 22, 2026, 01:46 PM UTC

    Northwestern Information Technology has identified an issue with Virtual Private Network (VPN) impacting a subset of services. IT support staff are working to restore full service as quickly as possible. The next update will be provided by 9:30 CDT

  2. monitoring Sep 22, 2026, 02:15 PM UTC

    IT support staff have implemented a fix, and services are restoring at this time. IT support staff will monitor to ensure all services are fully restored. The next update will be provided by 10:00 CDT

  3. resolved Sep 22, 2026, 02:56 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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