Setting IT Policies

Setting IT Policies
- Enforcement?
  - Policy includes sanction
  - Well established
  - Three strike
    - Warning
    - College CO
    - Senior Tutor who fines £30/hr
  - Refer direct to College authority
    - Advice first?
  - We are watching
  - Charge e.g. for large bandwidth
    - Expect better quality?
  - Only enforce whan legal problems
- Which Policies?
  - Fix problems/Reactive
  - Servce Based
  - Promote institution ethos
  - From Law
  - From University policy
    - Hard to understand
    - Amalgamate these
  - Tight or loose?
  - Don't say NO without alternatives
- Examples of problems
  - Skype
  - All peer to peer
- Aplying to who?
  - Staff
    - Written policy
  - Students
    - Wriitten policy signed
  - Fellows
    - How to get them to agree?
      - Opt in support
      - Via govening body
  - Visitors
    - Campus Manager + Agree
    - Restrict access
    - Vlaned
  - Have a general Framework
- Applying to what?
  - Databases
  - SLAs
    - Enabling Policies?
  - H/W replacement
    - Stay in warenty
    - Limit range of options
      - Especially printers
        Reduce desktop printers
        Use photocoppiers
        Small offices, stairs
        Privacy
        Fellows budget
        Green
  - Cost
  - Clustered servers only
  - Mobile data
  - WiFi points
- Used to get resources
  - Resources for Fellows
- Ued to pass the blame
  - Drop them in the minuites
  - Pass the blame upward
- For forward planning
  - Flagging up for budget
- How to do it?
  - What are other colleges doing?
  - Plagerism (sharing)
  - Central repository
    - Google Wave?
  - Peer review
  - Ask the University
  - Existing Cambridge policy
  - Ox/Cam policy templates
  - Janet policty templates