Key Student Responsibilities

Below are key Student responsibilities under the Roles and Responsibilities Policy. These reflect the realities of today’s world and recognize that we need to change the way we do things to protect the university community. Bears protect Bears!

Role:

Responsibilities:

All students
  • Practice good cyber hygiene:
    • Keep your devices and applications patched and up to date
    • Use strong, unique passphrases -- make them long, complex, or both. UC Berkeley has free LastPass Premium for all current students, faculty, and staff!
    • Secure all devices with a strong password or PIN, and set them to lock after a few minutes of inactivity (15 min max, shorter is better)
    • Encrypt anything that stores sensitive information
    • Turn on built-in anti-malware software and firewall
    • Back up important files and data
  • Use separate accounts for privileged (administrator) and non-privileged (user) access
  • If you’re working with information or systems classified at Protection Level P3 or P4 or Availability Level A3 or A4, you’ll need additional controls. Work with IT to develop a plan.
  • Complete required cybersecurity training
  • Report security incidents and respond to security notices
Student employees, graduate student instructors, and anyone else being paid by the university
Students in a Researcher role
  • Follow your supervising instructor, lab, or PI’s security protocols to protect the confidentiality of research subjects and research data.

Managers/supervisors of other people’s work or research

(“Workforce Manager” role)

  • Ensure that everyone you manage/supervise understands their information security responsibilities and receives proper security training
  • Review access rights annually
  • Incorporate information security into processes for hiring, separation, and change of employment

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