Re: Student workers & shared drive restrictions

["Spransy, Derek" <DSPRANS () EMORY EDU>]

Agreed, and indeed, I would sometimes trust students to make better security decisions than staff :-)  However, they 
are not permanent employees of the University and in practice often receive little training from the departments that 
hire them.  The question of access really belongs more in the hands of the data custodians than it does with the 
security staff.  In our case the department makes the access decisions and students don't usually get access to 
particularly sensitive information (mostly because the data that they would have access to includes academic and 
disciplinary information about other students), and those job responsibilities rest mostly with the staff.  In the case 
in question, if the risk of students abusing their access is considered to be high, then it may be best to put those 
responsibilities elsewhere.
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Kalal 
[kalal.1 () OSU EDU]
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 7:26 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Student workers & shared drive restrictions

Folks seem to forget that "students" are adult citizens. If they
hadn't come to college many would be handling patient files in your
doctor's office, training for a job with your local police,
maintaining your kids school, fielding help desk questions at your
credit institution, or dealing with other "sensitive' tasks. They
deserve adequate training and can handle responsibilities.

Bob Kalal


On Jun 1, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Spransy, Derek wrote:

> ... It's also a best practice to avoid giving students access to
> data that with a high level of sensitivity as well.  Hope that
> helps!  If you'd like more details on our set up I'd be happy to
> share offline.

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