Purpose
To provide Â鶹ӰÊÓ with guidance in identifying and gaining an understanding of the components of the institution that make up its information security system and thereby enable Â鶹ӰÊÓ to manage cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities.
Policy
In order for Â鶹ӰÊÓ leadership to make informed, business-driven decisions regarding computing assets, they must first know what assets exist, and the status of those assets. This information provides Â鶹ӰÊÓ visibility into license utilization, software support costs, unauthorized devices, vulnerabilities, threats, and compliance posture. IT assets include items such as servers, desktops, laptops, and network devices, as well as software, applications, programs and logical processes. Â鶹ӰÊÓ data, students, faculty, staff, devices, systems, and facilities that enable the organization to achieve educational, business, and operational purposes are identified and managed. The management of these assets is consistent with their relative importance to Â鶹ӰÊÓ educational, business, and operational objectives as well as Â鶹ӰÊÓ’s overall risk strategy.
Summary
- All devices purchased with Â鶹ӰÊÓ funding will be inventoried.
- The inventory is kept up to date either through manual inspection or automated tools
- Unauthorized hardware detected by automated mechanisms will have its network access disabled and Information Technology Services (ITS) will be notified of its existence.
- All software will be inventoried.
- Automated tools will be used to detect unauthorized software and if unauthorized software is discovered, ITS will be notified.
- ITS will protect Â鶹ӰÊÓ assets both through the use of encryption, user education and infrastructure design.
- Any external system connections will need to be documented by Â鶹ӰÊÓ ITS in order to ensure they are secure.