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The Information Security Office Risk Assessment (ISORA) is a university wide risk assessment of Information Security to comply with State regulations.  The state and the university administration require the university to undergo an annual assessment of the university's information resources and measure the risk to those resources.  This process helps identify the security of systems with sensitive data.  As a "steward" of university data, you will be asked to classify data residing on your computer according to the Data Classification Standard.

 University Data vs. Personal Data

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Personal Data

Data that is personal to the operator of a system and stored on a university IT resource as a result of incidental personal use, is not considered university data.

For example, personal credit card statement stored on your computer would be classified as personal data and would not be part of your data classification.

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Data Classification

Category-I Data

University data protected specifically by federal or state law or University of Texas rules and regulations (e.g., HIPAA; FERPA; Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley; the Texas Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act; University of Texas System Business Procedure Memoranda; specific donor or employee data). University data that are not otherwise protected by a known civil statute or regulation, but which must be protected due to university contractual agreements requiring confidentiality, integrity, or availability considerations (e.g., Non Disclosure Agreements, Memoranda of Understanding, Service Level Agreements, Granting or Funding Agency Agreements, etc.) are also included:

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