Security
- Maintaining the integrity and security of the technology environment at
UTSA is a community effort and serves to create a secure structure in
which all may work with confidence. Users must report any incidents of
possible misuse or violation of these policies to their supervisor,
department head or the UTSA Information Security Officer (ISO). Any
observed weakness in UTSA computer security should also be promptly
reported.
- UTSA
provides legally purchased and licensed software for use by faculty,
students and staff in carrying out their University-related endeavors.
UTSA technology users must not copy or reproduce any licensed software except for backup purposes or as
expressly permitted by the software license. Additionally, users
may not use unauthorized copies of software on University-owned
computers or intentionally use software known to cause problems.
- To
protect University systems, data and the work of faculty, students and
staff, unauthorized access should be prevented through the use of
password-protected screen savers wherever possible on all computers,
laptops, PDAs and workstations.
- Because
of their potential to breach security and privacy, special software
designed to be used to monitor and enter computer systems and networks
should only be used by appropriate technology security staff. This
includes security programs or utilities such as password cracking
programs, packet sniffers or port scanners that reveal or exploit
weaknesses in the security of a system or that reveal data by
circumventing established authorization procedures and systems.
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