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title: "Is Northwestern Information Technology Email Defense System (EDS) down? Northwestern Information Technology Email Defense System (EDS) status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/northwestern/email-defense-system-eds"
description: "Live Northwestern Information Technology Email Defense System (EDS) status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Northwestern Information Technology Email Defense System (EDS) down?

**Answer:** No, Northwestern Information Technology Email Defense System (EDS) is not down. All Northwestern Information Technology Email Defense System (EDS) systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T06:30:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Northwestern Information Technology](/status/northwestern.md) / Communication and Collaboration
- Official status page: https://northwesternuniversity.statuspage.io
- About: The Email Defense System (EDS), powered by Proofpoint, is Northwestern IT's system for scanning and filtering junk email, phishing attempts, viruses, and malicious high-risk attachments sent to the University community.

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Email Defense System (EDS)

No recent incidents.

## Links

- HTML page: /status/northwestern/email-defense-system-eds
- Service: /status/northwestern.md