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Re: Student breaking IT policies


From: Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:17:16 -0400

I forgot to add in that we work with the Dean's office to present a talk on Computer security, DMCA and Policy to all incoming students - we are part of the Welcome to Columbia talks that all new students are required to attend

Joel

--On Friday, March 18, 2011 12:54 PM -0400 Joel Rosenblatt <joel () columbia edu> wrote:

Hi,

We have taken the "Law and Order" approach - Security finds the bad guys and then turns them over to the Deans for the Order 
part - I don't want to be
responsible for tracking students and meting out punishments.

This was a battle I fought over DMCA, and have extended it out to any form of IT miss deed.

I agree with Radford, the first step in getting control of this is good policies.

My 2 cents

Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
Public PGP key
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90BD740BCC7326C3


--On Friday, March 18, 2011 9:40 AM -0700 "Radford, Jennifer" <jradford () INTAUDIT UBC CA> wrote:

Hi Mark,

Best practice is that this should be clearly documented in the relevant policy as a deterrent. If the policy is clearly 
documented and communicated then
management has clear guidance on what should be done in such instances, e.g. removal of c

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Subject: [SECURITY] Student breaking IT policies


1.       What do you do if a student breaks the computer usage policy

2.       What do you do to educate students on the computer usage policy


Thank you



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Mark Reboli
Network/Telcom/IT Security MGR
Misericordia University
570-674-6753




Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
Public PGP key
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90BD740BCC7326C3




Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
Public PGP key
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90BD740BCC7326C3


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