[Mission & Objectives]
[Strategic Plan For Information Security]
Information Security Services
[Statewide Policies and Guidelines]
[Security Standards Deviation Reporting]
[Statewide Security Initiatives]
[Antivirus Tools and Updates]
[Information Security Portal]
[Security Documentation]
[2004 Security Assessment]
[Emergency Alerts]
[Incident Management]
[Information Security Incident Reporting]
[NC-ISAC]
Risk Management Services
[Continuity of Operations and IT Business Continuity]
[Internal Audit Charter]
[Risk Management Services ]
[Business Continuity Software Updates and Training]
[State Chief Information Officer]
[Office of Information Technology Services]
The state benefits from an enterprise approach to the purchase and deployment of security technologies as the State technology infrastructure is upgraded to support information technology consolidation. The development and management of statewide contracts for security technologies, such as anti-virus, anti-spyware and vulnerability management tools enables standardization and enforcement of security policies. Aggregated security purchases allow the state to achieve the best value through economies of scale.
Currently across the nation laptops are being lost or stolen that may expose Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and/or confidential data. As custodians of government data, government agencies are obligated to protect citizens’ data. Compliance requirements are also driving the need to for agencies to encrypt mobile data. To help state and local government agencies address the need for mobile data encryption, the State CIO established a statewide contract for mobile data encryption products and related services. All of the selected products are expected to provide effective, enterprise level full-disk laptop/desktop protection. This contract allows agencies to benefit from discounted state contract pricing while providing agencies with the flexibility to select the product on contract that best fits their IT environment. Under this contract, vendors are responsible for providing all purchased encryption products, client support, as well as consulting and training services. Several of the listed vendors also offer mobile data encryption protection for removable media, file and folders, and/or hand-held computing devices either as a part of their offered FDE product or as an optional purchase item. It is mandatory that North Carolina State Executive Branch agencies use this contract when purchasing full-disk encryption products. North Carolina community colleges, state universities, K12 schools, and local governments also have the option to purchase from this statewide contract to procure mobile data encryption products. FDE products will be included in ITS Desktop Services.
- Memo Statewide Virus Protection October 6, 2004.
- Memo Statewide Anti-Virus Software March 10, 2006
- Memo New Statewide Information Technology Security Standards December 2, 2005
- Memo Patchlink Renewal December 28, 2005
- Memo Mobile Data Encryption Products August 23, 2007
- Memo Encryption Policy
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