Lincoln’s Security Policies Are Empty!
I’d like to start with a genuine quote from the University of Lincoln’s Public Security Policy, available on the university’s internal Portal system under the first entry for a search on “security policy”:
The University has an obligation to balance these 2 requirements. Occassionally these requirements will conflict…..academic freedom…. blah
To which my only reply can be “dude”. It appears that the only publicly accessible version of the Public Security Policy is a draft.
This then gets even worse when attempting to access the Computing Services Security Policy. This is a document containing nothing more than a table of contents and a set of headers. No policies, nothing.
All of which gets on my nerves when attempting to find out why students aren’t allowed to access their university email account from outside of the university. Having been told we can’t because of the “university’s security policy”, I am now unable to find anything substantial with which to verify this claim. What can I say except “[citation needed]“?
Tags: computing, Lincoln, policy, security, university, WTF?, [citation needed]