Securing Information

Now that you know your risk level, it's time to implement appropriate tasks to protect your data. Work with your departmental IT support resource or IS&T to undertake reasonable steps to complete these tasks. If implementing a particular task prevents you from completing your work, contact security@mit.edu—it may be acceptable to mitigate the risk using other methods. Some of the tasks might not be applicable to your situation. You may filter the list to show tasks applicable to your role – User, Data Owner, or System Administrator. If you are handling regulated information or have signed a data use agreement there may be some tasks that are absolutely required.

Your current IT support may already have many of these tasks implemented as part of their service. You can also contact the Service Desk for assistance with securing information.