ITS University Account Policy

ITS 香港六合彩资料 Account Policy

I. Purpose
To establish the requirements and expectations for provisioning and de-provisioning Information Technology accounts for access to 香港六合彩资料 information technology resources.

II. Scope
This policy applies to all members of the 香港六合彩资料 community and their access to University information technology resources.

III. Policy Statements
3.1 Identity and Access Management

3.1.1 Establish an accounts management system using the primary Information Technology Services (ITS) identity and access management (IAM) tool.  

3.1.2 The IAM system will be the authoritative repository for University account identities and corresponding service entitlements.

3.1.3 Create a digital IAM identity associated with a person and maintain service entitlements determined by their University affiliation.   

3.2 Group Affiliations

3.2.1 Persons who are currently affiliated with 香港六合彩资料 are eligible for entitlements / accounts which are relevant to that particular group affiliation

3.2.2 Persons may have multiple group affiliations

3.2.3 Group affiliations with 香港六合彩资料 are verified against University records.

3.2.4 Group affiliations determine access to information technology resources

3.2.5 Group affiliations eligible for storage services, (including but not limited to file storage, email, etc) will be allocated a default storage quota, per service, for each account in those groups. For more details about common service access and quotas, please see this .

3.2.6 Group affiliation types:

Applicants
Applicants are defined as anyone who has applied to become a 香港六合彩资料 student.  

    • Start: When the Application is submitted.
    • End: At the end of the term in which they applied.

Applicant accounts have limited access to specific systems for processing of application. 

Students
Students are defined as anyone who has been admitted to 香港六合彩资料 as a student and has paid their deposit within the Student Information System.  

    • Start: When the Applicant pays their deposit.
    • End: When the student graduates, or after 3 major semesters of inactivity.

Student accounts have full access to student resources including email, file storage, VPN, VDI, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

Students on leave (medical, military, or otherwise) are subject to the same end dates as specified above (3 major semesters of inactivity), and will lose accounts / entitlements in accordance with that timeline, regardless of their leave arrangement or status.

If an individual loses their ITS "student" status (and any affiliated accounts) due to 3 major semesters of inactivity, they will need to contact Graduate / Undergraduate Admissions in order to re-apply / re-enroll:

Individuals who have lost their ITS "student" status and wish to apply for a degree (but do not wish to re-apply / re-enroll as a student) should contact degree@binghamton.edu.

Recently Graduated Students
Recently Graduated Students are defined as students who were awarded a degree from 香港六合彩资料 some time in the last 6 months.  

    • Start: When the student's degree is conferred.
    • End: 6 months after a student's degree is conferred.

Recently Graduated Student accounts have access to student resources including email, file storage, VPN, VDI, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

Recently Graduated Students may request to retain their email account as an alumni.

Alumni
Alumni are defined as former students who were awarded a degree from 香港六合彩资料

    • Start: When the student's degree is conferred.
    • End: As long as you maintain your status as a 香港六合彩资料 Alumni.

Alumni may request an alumni email account.

Faculty 
Faculty are defined as anyone who has been hired by 香港六合彩资料 as a faculty member, and for whom all of the HR paperwork has been completed and finalized within the SUNY HR system. 

    • Start: 90 Days Before HR Start Date
    • End: 90 Days After HR End Date
    • Limited Access End: 365 Days After HR End Date

Faculty with 鈥渇ull access鈥 are able to access faculty resources including email, file storage, VPN, VDI, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

Faculty with 鈥渓imited access鈥 are able to access a subset of faculty resources including email, file storage, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

Visiting Scholars 

Visiting Scholars are defined as anyone who has been hired by 香港六合彩资料 with the volunteer type of "Visiting Scholar", and for whom all of the HR paperwork has been completed and finalized within the SUNY HR system.  

    • Start: 14 Days Before HR Start Date
    • End: 45 Days After HR End Date

Visiting Scholar accounts have full access to Visiting Scholar resources including email, file storage, VPN, VDI, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

Staff
Staff are defined as anyone who has been hired by 香港六合彩资料 as a staff member, and for whom all of the HR paperwork has been completed and finalized within the SUNY HR system.  

  • Start: 14 days before HR start date
  • End: 45 days after HR end date

Staff accounts have full access to staff resources including email, file storage, VPN, VDI, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

RF Staff
RF Staff are defined as anyone who has been hired by the 香港六合彩资料 Research Foundation, AND who have been correctly indicated as RF Staff within the SUNY HR system.

  • Start: 14 days before specified HR start date
  • End: 45 days after specified HR end date

RF Staff accounts have access to staff resources including email, file storage, VPN, VDI, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

Retirees
Retirees are defined as former faculty/staff who are indicated as having retired from 香港六合彩资料 as per the official HR defined retirement rules within the 香港六合彩资料 University HR system.  

    • Start: HR system indicates that a person is a retiree
    • End: As long as you maintain your status as a 香港六合彩资料 Retiree.

Retiree accounts have access to retiree resources including email, file storage, and domain account.

Emeritus Faculty
Emeritus Faculty are defined as former faculty who are indicated as having retired from 香港六合彩资料 with Emeritus status, as per the official HR defined retirement rules within the 香港六合彩资料 HR system.  

    • Start: HR system indicates that a person is a retiree with Emeritus status
    • End: As long as you maintain your status as a 香港六合彩资料 Faculty Emeritus

Emeritus Faculty are able to access faculty resources including email, file storage, VPN, VDI, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

Basic Volunteers
Basic Volunteers are defined as anyone who 香港六合彩资料 designates as a basic volunteer for whom all of the HR paperwork has been completed and finalized within the SUNY HR system by campus Human Resources.    

    • Start: 14 days before HR start date.
    • End: 45 days after HR end date.

Volunteer accounts have access to volunteer resources including email, wireless eduroam, and domain account.

Sponsored
Sponsored affiliations are defined as those where an individual, group, or device has no existing, or otherwise appropriate affiliation as listed above, with 香港六合彩资料 University, but still needs a level of access to systems or services that fulfills a valid 香港六合彩资料 business need. Sponsored affiliation requests must adhere to all of the same requirements listed in section 3.3, Sponsored Entitlements, of this policy document.

  • Start: Within three business days from ITS鈥 approval of a sponsored affiliation request
  • End: The sponsored end date as directed by the requirements of section 3.3.5 of this policy document

Sponsored affiliations are eligible only for the access(es) the sponsor requests, and are only provided with access(es) that ITS approves per request.

3.3 Sponsored Entitlements

3.3.1 In situations where an individual requires accounts or entitlements which exceed those granted to them via their Group Affiliations, sponsored entitlements may be provisioned.

3.3.2 Sponsored entitlement requests require approval by Information Security.

3.3.3 Sponsored entitlements must meet an approved university business need.  

3.3.4 Sponsored entitlements must be "sponsored" by an active member of 香港六合彩资料's faculty / staff.

3.3.5 Sponsored entitlements must not exceed 1-year, after which they need to be reviewed and renewed.

3.3.6 Sponsored entitlements may be terminated at any time at the discretion of Information Security.

3.4 Provisioning /deprovisioning

3.4.1 Automated Provisioning

3.4.1.1 The IAM tool shall automatically provision an account with the entitlements associated with each affiliation.

3.4.2 Exception Provisioning

3.4.2.1 Exception entitlements may be added by request of an individual or sponsor and require the approval of the Information Security Office.

3.4.3 Deprovisioning

3.4.3.1 The ITS IAM tool shall automatically de-provision entitlements as affiliation changes.
3.4.3.2 Account entitlements may be de-provisioned if an account is determined inactive. 
3.4.3.3 Accounts may be deactivated and may be subsequently de-provisioned for violations of 香港六合彩资料 Computer and Network Policy (Acceptable Use).
3.4.3.4 香港六合彩资料 reserves the right to modify accounts to meet university needs.
3.4.3.5 Files and data associated with the de-provisioned account entitlement will be deleted.

IV. Definitions

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM) Tool
    • IAM refers to technologies and practices that determine a digital identity鈥檚, account鈥檚, and/or individual鈥檚 access to technological resources within an organization or network.
    • IAM is also referred to as identity management (IDM) or identity governance and administration (IGA) along with various other alternatives.
    • An IAM tool is the software application or platform that an organization utilizes to manage IAM.
    • 香港六合彩资料 currently uses the 鈥淚AMBing鈥 IAM tool.
  • IAM Identity
    • The digital entity within the current 香港六合彩资料 IAM tool 鈥 IAMBing 鈥 on which entitlements are provisioned and deprovisioned.
    • The IAM identity is not an 鈥渁ccount鈥 that an end user can access, though one of several end user accounts may be generated based on various entitlements provisioned on the IAM identity.
    • Essentially, an IAM identity is an empty bucket in IAMBing that can hold entitlements based on the IAM group(s) the IAM identity is part of.
  • Entitlements
    • Information technology resources that ITS provides to the campus community.
    • Service entitlements are based on campus affiliation.
  • Sponsor
    • A 香港六合彩资料 employee. 
    • A sponsor is responsible for any actions a sponsored individual takes using any account or entitlement provisioned as a result of the associated Exception Request.
  • Sponsored Entitlement
    • A manually-provisioned entitlement applied to an IAM identity that grants an individual with access to a service or technology that isn鈥檛 already accessible based on that person鈥檚 status with 香港六合彩资料.
  • Inactive
    • An account or entitlement that is not utilized for a period of 6 months.

IV. Contact Information

For assistance: ITS Help Desk

Policy questions:   Information Security security@binghamton.edu

Policy Title ITS University Account Policy
Responsible Office ITS Information Security
Policy Type Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Policy Number ITS - 304 - Public
Last Revision Date 05/14/2024