Information Security
Welcome to the RIT Information Security Office Home Page. We're here to help keep the RIT community safe and secure from Internet and other threats to your information security.
What's New
Fan or Like our RIT Information Security Facebook page by October 1, 2011 to be entered in a drawing for a $100 Barnes and Noble gift card. Visit http://security.rit.edu/contestrules.html for full details.
Congratulations to Karyn Lewis, Information Security Office Communications Associate and gold prize winner in the EDUCAUSE 2011 Security Awareness Poster and Video Contest. Karyn’s winning entry can be seen here. Karyn also won two Honorable Mentions. You can see her entries at http://www.klewisportfolio.com/2011/03/educause-poster-contest-entries.html .
Visit our Mobile Devices page for new guidelines on using smartphones, etc. with RIT information resources.
Join us on Web 2.0.
- Find out more about how information security affects YOU by joining more than 4000 fans who like the RIT Information Security Facebook page. Join in the discussions.
- Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RIT_InfoSec
Newest Standards
- Revised Information Access and Protection Standard (eff. 2/1/10)
- RIT Signature Standard (eff. 7/1/09)
- Revised Desktop and Portable Computer Standard (eff. 8/1/09)
- Revised Server Standard (eff. 8/1/09)
- Revised Network Standard (eff. 8/1/09)
- Academic/Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Standard (in progress)
- Solutions Life Cycle Management Security Standard (in progress)
- Revised Web Standard (in progress)
- Hypervisor Standard (in progress)
Visit our Standards & Policies page for a complete list of information handling and computing requirements at RIT.
Private Information Management at RIT
The RIT Information Security Office is partnering with campus support organizations to identify and reduce Private Information such as Social Security Numbers (SSNs) on RIT computers. For more information, visit our Private Information Management page.
Free Virus Protection
Students, faculty and staff can obtain free McAfee Antivirus from the ITS security page
