Federal and state laws and regulations require that confidential electronic data, such as protected health information (PHI), personnel information, financial information, and personally identifiable information (PII) must be protected when stored on a computer, to reduce the impact of a computer loss or security breach. Such regulations include but are not limited to:

  What is encryption?

Because UC is a global organization, employees frequently travel domestically and abroad. UCOP has created the UCGO site at https://www.ucgo.org/ to (1) help facilitate this travel and (2) provide health and safety guidance and other critical resources while employees are traveling

Multiple methods for deploying whole-disk encryptions are used at UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Campus. The list of computer encryptions below is ordered by most to least well-used. For additional information regarding encryption, visit our Encryption FAQs.

Make sure to determine your operating system before buying software. UCSF IT Field Services (ITFS) licenses the operating systems for Windows and Apple/Mac, as well as the basic Microsoft Office suite, for all Basic and Premium customers.

Individuals who sign up for UCSF Qualtrics accounts have the option of being assigned to a Division based on their affiliation with UCSF. Contact your department or school coordinator for more information regarding division affiliation.Endorsement and brandingCollaboration (e.g., sharing of questions, survey, skins, user panels)CHR guidelines for research surveys, if applicableGuidelines and b

  With so many survey tools available to use at UCSF, which one best fits your needs? Here are highlights of available tools and our recommendations. You can also download a matrix comparison chart for more details.

Based upon the UCSF license: The Qualtrics license may be used by academic areas within University of California, San Francisco for projects that are academic in nature. Academic projects may serve research (instructional or academic) and administrative purposes.   The license may not be used for purely corporate or "for-profit" purposes. Such corporate projects would include purely clinical and patient-related surveys that are not related to academic research.