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DSA Resources

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Departmental Security Administrators set up and maintain departmental access to UC San Diego's computing, networking, and information resources.

Background: Departmental Security Administrators (DSAs) and their alternates coordinate with IT Services to approve all access to and use of core data by individuals within their departments or units.

DSA responsibilities:

Department responsibilities:

  • Departments and their staff must support the security of the systems, respect the rights of others, and observe all relevant laws when accessing UC San Diego's computing, networking, and information resources.
  • Department heads make decisions about data access.
  • DSAs carry out the department heads' decisions on data access.

Training and resources:

For more information, contact IT Services Access Provisioning.

Note: this page has a friendly link that's easy to remember: http://blink.ucsd.edu/go/dsa