Interim Vice President of Information Technology George Middlemist has announced that IT has abbreviated the process to encryption only for all College laptops so that they are secured before the summer break. IT will provide Spider, a scanning software, on the laptops so that you can scan your own files for private information and delete it.

IT intends to handle 20 to 25 laptops each day at a West Classroom location. Laptops will be returned within eight to 24 hours. IT Customer Service representatives will contact faculty and staff directly to schedule check-in day and time for each computer. IT will provide loaner laptops for those who need them.

If your department has a pool of laptops that are shared among the faculty, they will not be encrypted, however they will be re-imaged with a secure, “locked down” image. This means that faculty will not be able to save files locally on the laptop and will need to save their files to an external drive such as a flash drive. Flash drives will be available for those customers upon pick-up.

If you have any questions, please call the Help Desk at 556-8325.