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Village of Gowanda IT Policy Policy The Village of Gowanda provides Information Technology (IT) resources to enable and facilitate conduct of village business. All users including employees, temporary workers, contract workers, consultants, elected officials and volunteer workers who use Village IT resources must adhere to requirements and guidelines for IT security as specified in this policy. This policy - applies to all Village owned or village provided IT resources including hardware, software, networks, data and all telephones, blackberries and any other IT resources used to conduct Village business. The Village IT policy also applies to privately owned equipment while connected to Village owned or Village provided resources or when used to conduct Village business. Purpose The Village of Gowanda is continually increasing its reliance on IT systems and data in support of critical communication, training, business systems, human resources, project management, and services. Our ability to service-our customers and conduct normal business operations is impacted by our ability to appropriately maintain availability, integrity, and confidentiality of computer systems and data. The purpose if this policy is to specify requirements and guidelines for responsible and secure use of Village computer systems and data. These requirements and guidelines are intended to protect the Village from inappropriate disclosure of confidential or proprietary information, loss of competitive advantage, loss of productivity, damage to reputation, exposure to civil and criminal liability, and inability to meet customer and contractual obligations. Prohibited Uses Users must not attempt to circumvent security measures, effect security breaches, or interrupt network communication in any way. Users must not access, read, change, or delete files, data, or accounts not intended for their use. Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network, or account is not permitted. Network seanning, network sniffing, excessive pinging, packet spoofing, denial of service, password cracking, or network probing in any fashion unless expressly permitted in writing by the Village IT manager of the Village Board. Users must not attempt to forge or misrepresent email message headers to mask the origin of any email message. - Users must not attempt to impersonate another person using forged headers or other misleading or identifying information. All email received or sent from Village IT systems is the property of the Village of Gowanda. All email sent or received from other systems pertaining to Village business is subject to review by Village IT manager and must be retained and produced upon request of the Village Board. All email and’any other IT information must be retained and provided to management upon request of the Village Board or the IT manage.