Key Student Responsibilities

Role:

Responsibilities:

All students

• Practice good cyber hygiene: 
  • Keep your devices and applications patched and up to date
  • Use strong 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)
  • 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

• Report security incidents and respond to security notices

Student employees, graduate student instructors, and anyone else being paid by the university

• Know the classification of your data and systems (Note: Student records are classified as P3)
• Encrypt anything that stores sensitive information
• Non-public or critical information/systems may need additional protection. Work with your supervisor or IT to develop a plan.
• Complete all required cybersecurity training

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