{"id":45171,"date":"2011-08-30T08:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T12:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=45171"},"modified":"2011-08-31T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T14:43:13","slug":"web-based-service-offers-secure-file-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/08\/web-based-service-offers-secure-file-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Web-based Service Offers Secure File Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University Information Technology Services (UITS) is offering a new web-based service that 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 <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. 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 NetID;<\/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; an overhaul of the 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 in order to remove or protect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new service, Filelocker, will allow secure sharing of electronic files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":43589,"comment_status":"open","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":[39],"class_list":["post-45171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 12:11:21","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\/45171","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45717,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45171\/revisions\/45717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/43589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45171"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=45171"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=45171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}