Accessing sensitive data remotely from home or public machines

• Consider using a VPN (for example our OpenVPN service), particularly if you are using wireless in a public place - public wireless points are often less secure than those at home or within the University.
• When using a machine you do not manage (in an internet cafe, for example):
  • You must avoid accessing sensitive data on such a machine.
• When using a home machine that you share with others:
  • You must use a separate user account that other individuals have no access to.
  • Please run antivirus.
  • Where possible, have disk encryption enabled.
• Encryption:
  • There is a University policy on encryption.

We recommend reading the University's Information Security pages.