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Very clear to me that I had no business in a file if my password wouldn't get me in.'Īn organization cannot monitor user activity unless that user grants implicit or explicit permission to do so! 'And you might want to reconsider how our password system works,' Fred added. In the meantime, I'm going to send a memo out to staff reminding them what need-to-know really means.' I'm not going to make a big deal of it this time, but from now on, limit your browsing to the free- and reduced-price lunch information. 'Hmm, I see your point, Fred, but in truth you shouldn't be accessing student record information that isn't related to your legitimate educational duties. Kim paused, realizing that it might be reasonable for Fred to have assumed that he was allowed to read a file if his password gave him access. 'I figured that if my password got me into a file, it was fair game.' 'I didn't know that my access was limited,' Fred asserted honestly. 'You're authorized to access specific elements that relate to a student's free- and reduced-price lunch eligibility,' Kim clarified. 'Are you forgetting that I'm authorized to access student records?' I couldn't understand why someone in Food Services would need to be browsing through individual student test scores, so I thought I'd come by and ask you.'įred looked up at Kim as he if was surprised to be entertaining such a question. 'Fred, my review of our computer logs shows that you have been logging in and looking at confidential student information.

As the security manager, she knew how important it was to gather information completely before jumping to conclusions. After all, there is no reason for someone in Staff Payroll to be given clearance to confidential student records. To make this distinction a little more realistic, however, understand that user access security limits even authorized users to those parts of the system that they are explicitly permitted to use (which, in turn, is based on their 'need-to-know').

User access security refers to the collective procedures by which authorized users access a computer system and unauthorized users are kept from doing so. A person with a 'need-to-know' has been designated by school officials as having a legitimate educational or professional interest

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