by Kristen Mcintyre | Sep 19, 2022 | Home Page News, News
Join the Business Intelligence Collaboration Group (BICG), a UC-wide initiative with the mission of enhancing business intelligence across the University of California, at their inaugural summit on October 20th from 10:30-12:30 p.m. PDT. BICG Summits will be held quarterly on a rotating basis, with tech leaders from UCI kicking off the first event. Future summits will vary in size and format.
The topic for the two-hour-long virtual conference is student data analytics and will be kicked off by Tom Andriola, vice chancellor for information, technology, and data at UCI and former vice president of information technology services and chief information officer for the UC system.
“In today’s world, so much of what happens on our campuses is facilitated by technology and captured in data,” said Andriola. “Our analytics programs harness the power of data so we can help our students and alumni thrive in all aspects of the Anteater community – in their career and as citizens in our communities.”
The BICG Summit will also feature UCI speakers Larry Coon, Ryan Cherland, Tony Hwang, and Ray Vadnais.
“We’ve made significant progress on a robust student data repository and analytical tools supporting data-driven decision-making,” said Coon. “We’re thrilled to host the first BICG Summit and share our progress within our campus and among our sister campuses. The BICG Summit promises to become a powerful platform for collaboration and information sharing across the University of California.”
The virtual-only Summit is free of charge and open to anyone in the UC system interested in business intelligence.
by Kristen Mcintyre | Feb 4, 2022 | News
The Office of Information Technology, in partnership with UCI’s Public Records Office, begins its Annual Data Inventory on February 4, 2022, requiring all UCI campus employees to take steps towards ensuring UC Irvine data housed on their computers is secure.
All UCI staff and faculty have a duty to safeguard the security and privacy of information entrusted to them at UC Irvine. UC categorizes information based on the protection level it requires, according to risk. These protection levels (P1 – P4) for institutional information and resources are defined on the OIT Security website: Information and IT Resource Classification.
Data Minimization: Unless law, policy, business, or research needs require storage of P3 or P4 data, it should be eliminated. Good data hygiene includes deleting P3/P4 data in a way that is consistent with the UC Records Retention Schedule and UCI Institutional Information Disposal Requirements. Reducing the amount of data reduces the risk of a breach.
Data Mapping: If data must be preserved, it must be properly secured. The first step in safeguarding data is for staff and faculty to assess what data they have. This past year the campus needed to adapt to hybrid work, making it more important than ever to examine where/how information is stored.
Before Friday, March 4: UCI staff and faculty should review electronic devices under their control (including tablets, phones, and removable media) and remove or secure any files or records that contain protected information. These data elements should not be stored in personal or unapproved cloud services.
Staff and faculty collecting, using or storing P3 or P4 data electronically or on paper should inform their Unit Information Security Lead no later than Friday, March 4. Security leads maintain an inventory of data resources to facilitate risk assessment and compliance with law and policy and will help determine the best way to protect specific data.
Additional information on securing computers and data is available on UCI’s Information Security website.
Questions can be addressed to OIT Security at security@uci.edu.
