Security Hero Winners - InfoSec - Virginia Commonwealth University

Congratulations to our Security Hero Raffle Winners!

August 2025 Winner: Rahaf Abdelfadiel

Rahaf Abdelfadiel works in the VCU Card Office. VCU Card issues official Campus Cards that act as a central key to VCU's services and resources, providing identification and access to buildings, meal plans, library services, RamBucks, campus transportation, and more for students, employees, and affiliates. Lost cards can be reported by emailing cardservices@vcu.edu, online at myVCUCard.com, using the GET Mobile app, or by calling any VCUCard Office. Thank YOU for being a security hero.

April 2024 Winner: Duane Busby

Duane is a Voice Field Engineer Supervisor at Virginia Commonwealth University, he reported a phishing email that attempted to steal passwords from VCU employees. Due to this report the Information Security Office was able to block the email and prevent any victims. Thanks Duane!

October 2022 Winner: Laura Foy

I worked at the Wilder School as the Development Coordinator from December 2017 until August 2021 and now work for VCU Development and Alumni Relations as the Senior Project Coordinator for the Principal Giving Team. My role focuses on writing meaningful acknowledgement letters for major gifts to the university, scheduling meetings for multiple teams, and providing assistance for presidential donor engagement events. My goal is to create meaningful opportunities for our students, patients, and donors.

September 2022 Winner: Katie Condon

My name is Katie Condon, and I work at VCU Libraries. As a member of the Scholarly Communications and Publishing Division, I collaborate with colleagues across the libraries and our fabulous student employees on digitization, digital access, and digital publishing efforts and support. Together, we build our digital collections and institutional repository, including both VCU-published works and materials that focus on VCU, Richmond, and the surrounding region. Phishing is getting more creative these days, so it's important that we all try to identify and report to the VCU Information Security Team or the VCU IT Support Center. It's great to have folks to turn to when you're uncertain!

June 2022 Winner: Diane Schabinger

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Diane Schabinger has been with VCU for over 17 years, starting on the Medical Campus as a SAS consultant. After being away for several years working for a non profit and then the cable industry, she "returned home" to VCU working in Degree Audit before moving to Student Accounting over 12 years ago. Several months ago, she received an email thanking her for her order containing a "receipt" when she knew she hadn't made any recent purchases. Knowing she shouldn't open the attachment, she contacted infosec@vcu.edu and they confirmed it was a scam.

March 2022 Winner: Kimberly Ivey

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Kim Ivey is the Education and Student Services Coordinator for the Virginia Center on Aging and Department of Gerontology, in VCU's College of Health Professions. She noticed a strange email that turned out to be a scam. As soon as Kim realized that this was a scam, she forwarded it to infosec@vcu.edu.

June 2020 Winner: Rachel Wasilewski

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