{"id":38666,"date":"2011-06-23T08:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=38666"},"modified":"2011-08-25T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:44:40","slug":"filelocker-offers-secure-file-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/06\/filelocker-offers-secure-file-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Filelocker Offers Secure File Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University Information Technology Services (UITS) is offering a new web-based service which will allow all UConn faculty, staff, and students to share electronic files securely. The service, called Filelocker, may be accessed through a web browser at the address\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filelocker.uconn.edu\/\">http:\/\/filelocker.uconn.edu<\/a>. The Filelocker page contains help files as well as a &#8220;Login&#8221; link on the left side of the page. The application must be entered using a UConn NetID and password.<\/p>\n<p>The features of Filelocker include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to use a password to encrypt files in order to protect sensitive data<\/li>\n<li>Uploading electronic files to a secure storage area, storing them there for a fixed amount of time, and accessing them from anywhere with an internet connection<\/li>\n<li>Sharing files with other UConn faculty, staff, and students<\/li>\n<li>Automatic email notifications of file sharing requests and file download activity<\/li>\n<li>The ability to securely share files with individuals who do not have a UConn\u00a0NetID<\/li>\n<li>A 2 gigabyte quota per user<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Filelocker implementation is a component of the Information Security Office\u2019s larger effort to protect the University&#8217;s most sensitive data. Other efforts include Information Security Awareness video-based training for UConn faculty, staff, and student employees accessible through HuskyCT; a forthcoming overhaul of the current Network Registration (NetReg) system (<a href=\"http:\/\/safeconnect.uconn.edu\/\">http:\/\/safeconnect.uconn.edu<\/a>); and an upcoming initiative to search computer hard drives, web sites, and databases for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in order to remove or protect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filelocker will allow secure sharing of electronic files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-38666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 16:40:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45169,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38666\/revisions\/45169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38666"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=38666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}