Are you at risk?
How important is ... Your identity? Your personal finances? Your research? Your University's reputation? Your students' privacy? Your co-workers' privacy?
Below you will find information covering a wide spectrum of your personal technology needs. We recommend you skim through each section and conclude by taking the training course at the bottom of the page.
- Your logon ID and password are your online signature. Do you have a strong password and do you share it with NO ONE?
Do you store any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Patient Health Information (PHI) on any computer or device that you control? Is it absolutely essential? If so, is it registered? Secured?
- Official California State Policies: SB1386 and AB1298
- UCLA Policy on Data Protection and Breach Notification
- Resources
- Data Security Guidelines
- Do you only access UCLA online resources from a fully secured computer? If someone can install a key-logger on your machine, they automatically have your logon ID and password (i.e. your signature!)
- Do you access and make use of University data only as required to meet the requirements of your job?
- Is your hardware secured?
- STOP program
- LoJack for Laptops (Recommended by UCPD)
- Is your software licensed?
- Do you understand and abide by Digital Copyright laws?
- Do you understand and abide by FERPA and HIPAA requirements?
- Do you understand and abide by the UC Electronic Communications Policy?
- Do you understand the digital security of peer-to-peer downloading?
- Do you securely connect to the campus network through its virtual private network?
- Do you know General UCLA Compliance Information?
- UCLA IT Policies
- UCLA IT Compliance Coordinators
- To Report IT Resource Abuse, email abuse@ucla.edu