Table of Contents
- Role-Based Security Information
- UVa's SSN Initiative
- Protection of Sensitive Data
- Security Awareness
- Computing Security Baselines
- Security for Mobile Computing Devices
Role-based Security Information:
Find out about practices, policies, training, and other aspects of security relevant to your role(s) at UVa:
- User of a personal computer
- Server or network administrator/LSP
- Department manager/Principal Investigator
- Mainframe Data Security Contact
UVa's SSN Initiative
The University is undertaking a comprehensive initiative to phase out systematically its use of Social Security numbers (SSNs) wherever possible. Although SSNs must be collected for selected business functions, such as meeting Federal requirements to produce W-2 tax forms and financial aid reporting, the University will be altering other business functions to use University ID numbers in place of SSNs wherever possible. By July 2008, departments will need to identify all records and records systems within their purview that use SSNs and develop a remediation plan, which, following approval, must be implemented by July 2009. For more details, visit the SSN Initiative website.
Protection of Sensitive Data
- Learn how to identify sensitive and legally protected data at the University and how FERPA, HIPAA, and GLBA apply to you.
- Use Identity Finder to detect Social Security numbers, and find out if you're storing sensitive data on computers.
- Going mobile? Learn what challenges you face in securing mobile devices.
Security Awareness
- Online IT Security Awareness Training Required for All UVa Faculty and Staff
- All faculty, staff, and student employees with UVa computing accounts are required to complete brief online security awareness training. If you haven't yet completed the training, you can do so now. Questions? Contact it-security@virginia.edu.
- UVa Wins National Award for Cyber Security Video
- [October 10, 2007] UVa was recently recognized by SIGUCCS, a national association for higher education IT
professionals, for its short video, “The Job Interview,” which won a “Best of Category” Communications Award.
Watch the video >>.
The video is part of UVa’s contribution to the “Who’s Watching Charlottesville?” campaign to promote cyber security awareness in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area during October, which is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The campaign is a cross-sector community initiative partnering ITC with the UVa Community Credit Union, the city and county governments, city and county schools, and PVCC, to help area residents learn how to better protect themselves online.
Community Security Baselines
What are the best and most secure configurations that system administrators can apply to a computer? Find detailed security configurations for Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX.