SecureUGA participation required by November 30, 2009

Office of the Chief Information Officer Press Release
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Friday, October 2, 2009

WRITER: Bert DeSimone, 706/338-9849, bert@uga.edu
CONTACT: Brian Rivers, brivers@uga.edu

ATHENS, Ga.— In accordance with the June 3, 2009, memo SecureUGA: 2010 Security Awareness and Accountability Program from UGA's three senior vice presidents, all UGA employees currently on the UGA payroll are required to complete ten awareness modules by November 30, 2009. This includes faculty, staff, administrators, and all student workers, graduate assistants, research assistants, teaching assistants, and work-study students.

All students are encouraged to participate, but are not required to do so unless they are in the aforementioned list.

SecureUGA, which was launched in 2008, is an information security education and awareness program that includes mandatory, self-paced, online awareness presentations. In 2008, all employees were required to complete the first four awareness modules. This year, all employees are required to complete all 10 of the SecureUGA awareness modules by the November 30, 2009, deadline.

The required modules can be accessed via the SecureUGA Web site:

secure.uga.edu

After connecting to the Web site, click on the following link to begin:

Please continue to the Role Based Security Awareness Presentations.

After logging in with a MyID and password, the modules will be presented.

The ten modules required for completion by November 30, 2009, are:

Your Role in SecureUGA
Security in the Workplace
What is Sensitive Data?
Securing Portable Electronic Devices
Password Security
Identity Theft and Fraud
Electronic Virus Protection
Copyright and Fair Use
E-mail and Web Security
Online Personalities and Avatars

Modules that have been completed, and those that are not yet completed, will be listed separately.

Each module should take less than 5 minutes to complete. It is not necessary to do all the modules at one time.

Compliance with the requirement to complete all ten modules will be sent in a report to all deans and unit heads after the November 30, 2009, deadline.

Problems encountered during access or use of the modules should be reported to the EITS Help Desk: helpdesk@uga.edu / 706-542-3106.

About SecureUGA
SecureUGA (secure.uga.edu) is a role based security training and accountability model in which every individual, regardless of position, has a responsibility to protect our sensitive and critical data. SecureUGA is comprised of three components: policy and procedures, technology, and people. Policy sets the foundation to guide our process and action. Technological enhancements will build strong systems and infrastructure. The third and most important component, people, will be addressed via awareness, training, and education.

About the Office of the CIO and EITS
The Office of the Chief Information Officer and Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS) are committed to the mission of UGA as a land-and-sea-grant institution where academics come first and the research extensive university community encourages research efforts at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To that end, under the direction of the University´s Chief Information Officer, EITS endeavors to provide a robust, reliable, and secure information technology infrastructure, maintain essential production services, and offer world-class support.

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