The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry is critically dependent on its information technology resources to fulfill its academic and business responsibilities and must comply with applicable government regulations. Failure to protect sensitive information can negatively affect the Faculty’s ability to fulfill these responsibilities, its mandate, and can be damaging to the reputations of the faculty and university.
The purpose of this policy is to define the requirements for protecting sensitive data. The use of encryption is intended to mitigate the risk of confidential information being inadvertently disclosed to unauthorized third parties.
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If you have questions about encryption and/or the policy, please direct them to the MedIT Service Desk at
encryption@med.ualberta.ca.