Administering Office: Office of the CIO
Approved by: ITPC
Posted: August 25, 2006
Western Carolina University’s data network is a utility that is vital to the operation of the university. As such, the university must insure that nothing is added to or changed in the network that disrupts its availability to the campus.
The Information Technology Division’s Network Services department has the responsibility for the design, maintenance and security of the university’s data network. To insure the integrity of the network:
- No device may be added to the network which does not conform to the approved list of devices, maintained and published by the IT Division, without prior approval of Network Services. Rogue network devices will be automatically and immediately disabled upon detection.
- No individual or office may set up a service using the campus data network that provides unauthorized users access to the network or provides unauthorized IP addresses for users.
- Network Services has the right to quickly limit network capacity to, or disable, network connections that are overwhelming available network bandwidth to the detriment of the university.
- Access to networking equipment in wiring closets, etc. is limited to the Networking Services staff or their designees.
- No consideration of changing the architecture of any part of the data network may be undertaken without the early and regular involvement of Network Services.
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