Heartian Policies

Information Technology Policy 2020

The computing resources at Sacred Heart College (Autonomous) Kochi is intended to support the educational, instructional, research, and administrative activities of the college and the use of these resources is a privilege that is extended to members of the SH community. The IT policy of the college is formulated to maintain, secure, and ensure legal and appropriate use of Information technology infrastructure established on the campus and provide guidelines on acceptable and unacceptable use of IT resources of the college. This policy establishes strategies and responsibilities for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information assets that are accessed, created, managed, and/or controlled by the College. Information assets addressed by the policy include data, information systems, computers, network devices, intellectual property, as well as documents and verbally communicated information. In addition, this policy supports effective organizational security and protects users and IT resources from, but not limited to cyber criminals, bullying, misuse of accounts
and assets as well as the spread of malicious software