Download / FTP Policy

The North Central Kansas Technical College has spent a considerable amount of time, effort and investment in keeping your computing environment as safe and rewarding as possible from the ever increasing threats associated with the Internet. In order to maintain this high quality, safe computing environment we require these common practices from every computer user.

 Downloading/Installing files/programs from the Internet is strictly prohibited on all college computers without prior approval from the college's IT staff or their representatives due to the following reasons:

• Increased security risks to the college's Information Systems, (viruses, malware, and spyware are ever increasingly embedded within many downloadable files).
  • Majority of the restricted websites are blocked because of embedded harmful content within those sites.
    
• Copyright and legal issues.
  • Every file/program you download has legal binding copyrights associated with them and their use. A person without knowing can bring a potential law suit upon themselves because they did not read or understand the downloaded files/programs copyright. That law suit would not involve the college because of the college's Acceptable Use Policies that every user is required to read and sign, it would be directed to the end user that abused those policies.

Uploading files/programs to the Internet is strictly prohibited on all college computers without prior approval from the college's IT staff or their representatives due to the following reasons:

• Increased security risks to the college's Information Systems.
  • every portal opened up to the Internet is an opportunity for outside users to slip harmful viruses, malware and/or spyware back into the college's network.
• Copyright and legal issues.
  • Every file/program you upload has legal binding copyrights associated with them and their use. A person without knowing can bring a potential law suit upon themselves because they did not read or understand the files/programs copyright. That law suit would not involve the college because of the college's Acceptable Use Policies that every user is required to read and sign, it would be directed to the end user that abused those policies.

Any person uploading/downloading files/programs on any college computer without the prior knowledge and approval from the college's IT staff or their representatives is in direct violation of the college's Acceptable Use Policy and may result in the immediate removal of all Information Systems privileges.

Any downloaded files/programs found on any college computer without the prior knowledge and approval from the college's IT staff or their representatives is in direct violation of the college's Acceptable Use Policy. The downloaded files/programs will be removed from that computer, and the end user responsible for those files/programs may lose their privileges to use any of the college's Information Systems.

 

For more information or questions you can contact: webmaster@ncktc.edu

Related resources

• Acceptable Use Policy
• Email Policy
• Instant Messaging Policy
• Internet Usage Policy