{"id":94680,"date":"2024-07-29T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=94680"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:11:00","slug":"brock-its-reminds-users-to-revisit-key-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/07\/brock-its-reminds-users-to-revisit-key-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock ITS reminds users to revisit key policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Information Technology Services (ITS) team is encouraging faculty, staff and students to review Brock\u2019s information technology (IT) policies, which help protect the University\u2019s IT assets and sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p>Key IT policies that users should be aware of include the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/university-secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/POL-IT-Acceptable-Use-Policy-February-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IT Acceptable Use Policy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/university-secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/POL-End-User-Logical-Access-Policy-February-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">End User Logical Access Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/policies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/IT-End-User-Communications-Encryption-Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IT End User Communications and Encryption Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The IT Acceptable Use Policy applies to faculty, staff and students when using Brock IT systems or services and when accessing, sharing or modifying Brock data. Key takeaways include that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security must be prioritized at all times.<\/li>\n<li>Limited personal use of Brock IT resources is permitted if it doesn\u2019t compromise performance or operations, incur any cost, damage the University\u2019s reputation or involve activities inconsistent with its mission.<\/li>\n<li>Users are responsible for all activities conducted within their user account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The End User Logical Access Policy applies to users when accessing systems that require authorization. Some of the main points of the policy include that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brock\u2019s technology and data must be protected against unauthorized access.<\/li>\n<li>Access to Brock systems is restricted to authorized users or processes.<\/li>\n<li>Access to Brock systems is based on the principle of least privilege, which means the least amount of access is granted to complete required tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The IT End User Communications and Encryption Policy applies to faculty, staff and students when they are transmitting or transferring sensitive Brock data. Key elements of the policy include that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sensitive data must be transmitted using secure methods such as <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/security\/encryption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encryption<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Social media systems must never be used to transmit or post sensitive data without prior consent from the owner of the data or those responsible for the data.<\/li>\n<li>Data owners must understand who should have access to the data and if encryption is required.<\/li>\n<li>Data owners must engage with <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/helpdesk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITS<\/a> to ensure proper encryption.<\/li>\n<li>Credit card data must never be stored in any system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details about these key IT policies and other policies, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brocku.ca\/policies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Information Technology Services (ITS) team is encouraging faculty, staff and students to review Brock\u2019s information technology (IT) policies, which help protect the University\u2019s IT assets and sensitive data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,12374],"tags":[12230,5331,7822],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94682,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94680\/revisions\/94682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}