- Ensure that your workstation has been secured as per UISO recommendations. Contact your IT Pro if you need help.
- If you have critical or restricted data in your environment:
- If the data is on physical media such as a DVD, ensure that it is stored in a locked room/cabinet and accessible by authorized users only.
- Keep the media secured until the project is over as protection against accidental erasure.
- At project completion, ensure that the media is handled as per rules or regulations to which the data is subject, for instance via physical destruction or secure erasure.
- If the data is on your workstation, ensure that it is encrypted.
- Delete the data from your workstation securely or keep it encrypted if it is no longer needed.
- Check to see if the rule or regulation the data is subject to has specific disposal requirements.
- If the data is on physical media such as a DVD, ensure that it is stored in a locked room/cabinet and accessible by authorized users only.
Beware of this pitfall
Data transferred from your workstation or device to other systems arrives unencrypted even if your workstation or device is full disk or whole disk encrypted. It gets decrypted prior to the transfer. The same is true despite using an encrypted channel to transfer data such as https. It only keeps the data encrypted in transit. Data still arrives unencrypted at the other end.