IT Policies and Procedures under Review

There are no IT related policies currently under review.  

Revisions to the IT Acceptable Use and Security Policy (ITAUSP) and its associated procedures were accepted in February 2012.  Feedback on the revised policy and procedures should be emailed to Melissa Gibbs.  

Overview of Issues considered and revisions included

There were 10 areas that required revision in the ITAUSP and 6 in each of the Access and Accounts Procedures and the IT Security Procedures. A further 10 issues were considered that required no action to be taken with respect to the policy. The key changes include;

• A revised definition of ‘IT facilities and services' to clarify the relevance of the policy and procedures to social media and mobile communications devices etc.
• Ensuring the policy and procedures reflect current business processes with respect to account creation and deletion.
• Addition of sections to explicitly cover third party providers.
• Ensuring the policy and procedures allow flexibility in logging, monitoring and potentially blocking web traffic.
• Archiving the ‘All Student Email Policy' and ‘Guidelines for Posting on MyUni Forums' policies.

In addition, the best practice guidelines have been reviewed and several new sets added including Calendar best practice, Use of Library e-Resources, Posting on MyUni Forums and Social Media. Details are available on request from Melissa Gibbs.