An acceptable use policy (AUP) is a document stipulating constraints and practices that a user must agree to for access to a corporate network or the Internet.
Many businesses and educational facilities require that employees or students sign an acceptable use policy before being granted a network ID.
When you sign up with an Internet service provider (ISP), you will usually be presented with an AUP, which states that you agree to adhere to stipulations such as:
Not using the service as part of violating any law
Not attempting to break the security of any computer network or user
Not posting commercial messages to Usenet groups without prior permission
Not attempting to send junk e-mail or spam to anyone who doesn't want to receive it
Not
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[ Computing Passwords Policy ]
You are individually responsible for appropriate use of all resources assigned to you, including the computer, the network address or port, software and hardware. Therefore, you are accountable to the University for all use of such resources. As an authorized Brown University user of resources, you may not enable unauthorized users to access the network by using a Brown computer or a personal computer that is connected to the Brown network. [ Network Connection Policy ]
The university is bound by its contractual and license agreements respecting certain third party resources; you are expected to comply with all such agreements when using such resources.
You should make a reasonable effort to protect your passwords and to secure resources against unauthorized use or access. You must configure hardware and software in a way that reasonably prevents unauthorized users from accessing Brown's network and computing resources.
You must not attempt to access restricted portions of the network, an operating system, security software or other administrative applications without appropriate authorization by the system owner or
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All they have are your words, and your words can express the opposite of what you feel
Don't use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS--it's equal to shouting or screaming
Be brief
If your message is short, people will be more likely to read it
Refer to the Guide on "Writing for the Internet"
Make a good impression
Your words and content represent you; review/edit your words and images before sending
Be selective on what information you put in an e-mail or on a web site:
Information on the Internet is very public, and can seen by anyone in the world including criminals, future employers, and governments
Forward e-mail messages you receive only with permission of the sender
Remember you are not anonymous
What you write in an e-mail and web site can be traced back to you
Consider others
If you are upset by what you read or see on the Internet, forgive bad spelling or stupidity;
If you think it violates the law, forward it to the FBI or your state's Attorney General
Obey copyright
Also, implement patch management and keep up to date with anti-malware and anti-spyware updates. This helps in the summarization of the possible threats the College can face in certain scenarios and explains how to protect against them.
Implement the same security policies as would be implemented on any networked system, where possible. In particular, printers should be denied access to the Internet through a firewall, intrusion prevention system, intrusion detection system or other inline filtering device. Accounts should also be secured and default passwords replaced with a strong, complex password containing letters, numbers, and special characters.
In the essay “Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt” the author Julie Zhou demonstrates the negative impact Anonymity in the internet has had on human beings. Following with a convincing argument for unmasking these “trolls” of the internet.
Treat any emails with respect & confidentiality i.e. do not share with anyone that should. Never walk away from your computer so that someone else can read your emails or even worse be in a position where someone could send an email on your behalf.
Americans pride themselves on living private lives. They appreciate the fact that they live without being under the watchful eye of someone. However, increased electronic technology has made it harder to live privately. There are privacy issues regarding Internet Service Providers (ISP), electronic correspondences, and telephone calls. More directly with the creation and increased popularity of the Internet, people who use the World Wide Web are undoubtedly concerned with their private information being leaked. The technology allows people to track your Internet activities, steal your credit card information and “hack” into your e-mail accounts. With this increase in technology comes an increase in the level of concern.
Catherine, P. (March 2008). The Anonymity Experiment. Writing in the Writing Disciplines, 11(3), 387 – 396
Hoffman, Ellen. "The Dark Side of the Internet: Controls on Student Access." Syllabus High School Edition. September, 1999. pp14-17.
Part of the allure of the Internet has always been the anonymity it offers its users. As the Internet has grown however, causing capitalists and governments to enter the picture, the old rules are changing fast. E-commerce firms employ the latest technologies to track minute details on customer behavior. The FBI's Carnivore email-tracking system is being increasingly used to infringe on the privacy of netizens. Corporations now monitor their employees' web and email usage. In addition to these privacy infringements, Internet users are also having their use censored, as governments, corporations, and other institutions block access to certain sites. However, as technology can be used to wage war on personal freedoms, it can also be employed in the fight against censorship and invasion of privacy.
Email etiquette refers to a set of dos and don’ts that are recommended by business and communication experts in response to the growing concern that people are not using their email effectively or appropriately. Since email is part of the virtual world of communication, many people communicate in their email messages the same way they do in virtual chat rooms: with much less formality and sometimes too aggressively. Email etiquette offers some guidelines that all writers can use to facilitate better communication between themselves and their readers. One overall point to remember is that an email message does not have non-verbal expression to supplement what we are "saying." Most of the time we make judgments about a person’s motives and intentions based on their tone of voice, gestures, and their proximity to us. When those are absent it becomes more difficult to figure out what the message sender means. It is much easier to offend or hurt someone in email and that is why it is important to be as clear and concise as possible.
Roberts, Richard M. "Network Secrurity." Networking Fundamentals. 2nd ed. Tinley Park, IL: Goodheart-Willcox, 2005. 599-639. Print.
...thorized permission to access any authorized computer in the library or computer centre to access necessary subject information. The technology is updated to latest to maintain any interruption of accessing data.
There are three main policies that NPS deals with. The first is connection request polices. This policy “establishes a set of conditions settings used for authentication, authorization, and accounting” (Regan, 2013). The connection request determin...
In the real world, most encounters in everyone's daily lives are anonymous ones. Chatting with a person beside you in a café or talking to an assistant while shopping for a pair of pants- these are interactions between two unknown persons; however, these contacts do not affect our lives the way some of the anonymous interactions in the cyberspace does so. Chat rooms, net forums, and even the spam mails most people get u...
When the internet was considered a global information system in 1995 millions of Americans participated in virtual communication. People began to communicate with each other and personal information began to be placed online by the stroke of the fingertips to their own computer. So the question is the privacy of individuals trusted online? Can people snoop around and see personal information? Of course people can if guidelines are not set in place to protect them. Public and private information can be complex when some individual(s) do not expect their communication to be read outside of their online community. What will be discussed are some ethical responsibilities that need to take place in the United States. Respecting the individual privacy and honor confidentiality is a must in this country.
The same goes for your E-mail. If you don=t want other people to read it then don=t send it. It is the same thing with keeping a secret, once you tell one person they can tell someone else, that is why they say that three people can keep a secret if two are dead. Source Privacy in Cyberspace privacyright.org.