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UIC Information Assurance Policies, Plans and Procedures

UIC has a very elaborate system of computer system policies and procedures that are available for reference on the web. The following set of policy documents are some of the most representative of these policies and guidelines. All students and staff members undergo training during their orientation sessions on many of these policies. Furthermore, these policies are directly availble from the RITES center page for ready reference.

UIC Information Assurance Policies, Plans, and Procedures

• University of Illinois system-wide policies

Information Security Policies

• Information Security Policy
• Security Incident Response Plan

Computer Use Policies

• UIC policy on acceptable use
UIC Computer Science department acceptable use policy.
• Networking Policy
• Terms of accounts
• Passwords
• Strong Password Definition
• Password Guidelines for Empowered Accounts

Privacy Policies

• Web Privacy Policy
• Policy on Cookies

Private Data Use Policies

• University Identification Number (UIN) Policy
• University of Illinois policy on Social Security numbers
• AITS Guidelines for handling Social Security numbers

Ethics, Publishing, Copyright and Fair Use

• the UI Ethics Office
• Policy on Software Copyright Compliance
• On Software Piracy
• Policies on sharing copyrighted works.
• University of Illinois Policy for Publishing on the Internet

Auditing policies

• Office of University Audits, including information on security policies and audits

Administrative policies

• Administrative IT Policy (For employees only, Password protected)
• Business and Financial Policies and Procedures page on Information Technology Policy

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