Recommendations geared towards Chemistry research groups. ChemIT's role is to promote, not require or enforce, these best practices.

High-level context

Benefits

Physical access to systems, data
Accounts management
Backup
Data recoverability
Intrusion detection
Critical operations
Emergency preparedness
Machines
- Inventory
- Individual assessment
- Age / potential for failure
- Applications and os updates
- Virus likelihood
Clusters
- Accounts management
- Remote access / ports
- Failure recovery
- Backup & Archive
Network / remote access
3rd party issues --access, recovery, restriction, location / country of storage
Personal machine risks
- Infections spread to CU Machines
- Wipe out CU Data
- Users steal data