Things to be aware of while working from home
- Data from any University hosted systems should not reside on your home local machine at anytime
- Non-public university data in any format should not reside on your home local machine at anytime
- Avoid downloading or transferring non-public university data form York campus share drives to your home local machine
- Never save email attachments which are non-public university data related onto your home local machine, if you do while working, remove it when done
You can avoid having any kind of non-public university data on your home local machine by practicing the following:
1. Remote desktop into your office computer and do any kind of work that requires you to handle non-public university data on the York campus computer
2. If you happen to modify data while working from home that is non-public university data, move the file when done to your remote desktop on the York campus
3. If you find that your work will always include non-public university data but are not able to perform the above recommendations due to the nature of your work, request an encrypted system to work with at home. Do not use a person home system to do York College related work which deals with non-public university data
If you have been working on a machine at home which is compromised in some way and the machine has non-public university data on it you must report this immediately to the York College CIO
Please review information on this website about encryption and other security measures designed to keep non-public university data safe on campus and off
Visit: https://www.york.cuny.edu/it/service-delivery-unit/service-desk/security-awarenes
