{"id":24473,"date":"2024-06-18T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/?page_id=24473"},"modified":"2025-03-05T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:03:36","slug":"data-security-and-backup-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/data-security-and-backup-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Security and Backup Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Store your important information in at least two secure locations. For example an external hard drive and\/or Google Drive in addition to your computer. <strong>Please follow Montclair&#8217;s policies for Google Drive.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/policies\/all-policies\/data-classification-and-handling-safeguarding-sensitive-and-confidential-information\/\">Data Classification and Handling<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/policies\/all-policies\/google-drive-usage-guidelines\/\" class=\"c-link c-message_attachment__title_link\" data-qa=\"message_attachment_title_link\"><span dir=\"auto\">Google Drive Usage Policy and Support Agreement<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/secure-file-transfer-google-drive\/\">Secure File Transfer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Keep updated versions of important documents in an approved cloud storage (Google drive, etc.). Storing files in a secure location online allows you to access the data from anywhere, and avoids hardware failure that can be associated with external storage.\n<ul>\n<li>There is a a 1Tb (terabyte) per-user default storage limit for employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use Google Drive to sync files between multiple devices. By syncing your data with Google Drive you will be able to access files from any device with an internet connection.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to use encryption for external drives to protect data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store your important information in at least two secure locations. For example an external hard drive and\/or Google Drive in addition to your computer. Please follow Montclair&#8217;s policies for Google Drive. Data Classification and Handling Google Drive Usage Policy and Support Agreement Secure File Transfer Keep updated versions of important documents in an approved cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":24476,"parent":0,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24473","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24473"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25303,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24473\/revisions\/25303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}