Department of Engineering

IT Services

Security

Computing Service Security

Basic Security

Why Security?

  • Keeping your computer and any accounts you use on other systems secure is important:
    • to protext your own work and personal information;
    • to safegurad the fiels of other system users;
    • to comply with legislation (e.g. The Data protection Act) and Acceptable Use Policies: see the Engineering IT use Rules;
    • to prevent our systems form being hijacked and userd to attack other systems.
     
  • Nuclear and Energy Mphils: Printing (Uniflow) At the start of the academic year a sum of money was put in your Uniflow printing account. If you uses all this money you will need to top the account up yourself using the epos system or by putting money into your account at the canteen