Users Agree To The Following
- The computer and network resources of MGH Information Services
and the NMR Center are to be used for NMR Center research and equivalent
collaborative efforts. Since the NMR Center is not the corporate
world we realize that other uses do happen from time to time.
Remember that resources, while possibly extensive, are limited.
Please remember also that this is primarily a research facility,
act accordingly and maintain proper professional decorum in electronic
correspondence (e-mail, news, mailing lists, etc).
- Accounts issued to the users of the NMR Center computer and network
facilities are for individual use only by those users unless
explicitly designated for shared use by NMR Center Systems Staff.
Individual users are responsible for not giving out access to
accounts issued to them for any purpose. Users of the NMR Center’s
computer and network facilities to whom accounts have been issued by
NMR Center Systems Staff are authorized users. Authorized users will
use only those accounts and system services allocated to them
and for which they have been authorized.
All other users or uses are unauthorized and inappropriate and are
considered malicious.
- Neither authorized nor unauthorized users will act in a malicious
manner to damage or alter system files, data, other document files,
the data
collection systems, the network, or any NMR Center computer or network
facility. Malicious behavior will be determined by NMR Center Systems
Staff. Malicious acts may be punishable by anything from loss of
account,
to legal action, especially in the case of HIPAA violations.
Malicious behavior includes but is not limited to
system
break-ins, harassment of any kind, e-mail bombs or other denials of
service,
deliberately crashing one or more systems, deleting or altering files
that do not belong to you,
reading other people’s files for which authorization has not been
given, etc.
- Users are encouraged to report suspicious activity or occurrences, as
soon as possible, to
the Systems Staff.
Suspicious activity includes but is not limited to system service
reports of spoofing (typically via SSH), login reports of your account
having been logged in when you were not using it, logging in and being
immediately logged out under circumstances when this would
not normally occur, general system behavior not considered to be
within the realm of normal system operation, other persons using
NMR Center computer and network facilities in a wholly inappropriate
manner (trashing other user’s accounts etc.). There may only
be a broken system service but there may also be a serious security
problem.
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To ensure the operational integrity of NMR Center computer and network
systems and services, and keeping in mind that NMR Center Systems Staff do
not want to behave, either by
choice or necessity, in a Big Brother like capacity (we have other things
to do), the following should be
noted.
Systems Staff Will Do The Following
- The NMR Center Systems Staff reserve the right to modify or
update these policies
without notice to resolve or clarify specific issues.
Please keep this page book marked and refer to it often.
- NMR Center Systems Staff regularly monitors system service logs for
problems. Problems include but are not limited to system faults as well
as authorized and unauthorized user access, system integrity changes, etc.
- Such fault monitoring may include reading or even modifying
user e-mail, local user configuration files or other local user files
when there is a problem. We will inform users of such actions.
- NMR Center Systems Staff reserve the right to monitor any part of any
NMR Center computer system we have installed or configured for any
member of the user community if problems are either reported to or
discovered by us in the normal course of our jobs.
- If either an authorized or unauthorized user is discovered to be acting
in a malicious fashion, NMR Center
System Staff reserve the right to determine the extent of such malicious
behavior and a course of action. Such action may include anything
from notification through loss of account to informing law enforcement
officials, especially in the case of HIPAA violations.
Our job is to maintain the operational status and integrity
of NMR Center computer and network facilities. We take it very seriously
and will spare no effort to find a malicious user of our systems and
services and deal with such. Malicious acts against NMR Center computer
or network facilities or against any member of the user community
through these facilities will not be tolerated.
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Author: Chris Johnson
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