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GRAMM LEACH BLILEY ACT TO DO LIST

 

Contributed by Meg Galletly, Attorney Fellow at George Washington University

 

  • Scope of covered material (for policy/program purposes) – GLB v. FERPA
    • Which departments have this material?
      • Staff/Administrative – Departments
        • Registrar
        • Financial Aid
        • Alumni Development Office (Reg. Y)
        • Human Resources/Benefits (Reg. Y)
        • Credit Card Affiliations (?)
        • ISS
      • Faculty/Students – Departments
        • Professional Schools
        • Graduate Schools
        • Undergraduate Schools
        • Certificate Programs
        • Professional Development Program
    • What are their current policies and procedures?
      • Who has access?
      • What and/or how much do they have access to?
      • How do they protect it?
        • In the filing cabinet?
        • While in use?
  • Identify Service Providers
    • Who has access to GLB and/or FERPA covered information?
    • Check contracts to see what language they contain.
    • Develop and send form “amendments” stating that they are GLB compliant, etc.
  • Identify “reasonably foreseeable internal and external risks”
  • Implement safeguards
    • Hard copies (current/in use)
      • Limiting access
      • Colored folders? Marked papers?
      • Locked filing cabinets – always locked? Locked at night?
    • Hard copies (storage)
      • Stored by us
      • Stored by service provider (contractual)
    • Electronic copies
      • Stored on local v. server
      • Transmitting documents
      • Email – content

 

  • Frequency of “Periodic” Evaluations/Risk Assessments:
    • Computer/Technology Risk Assessment – Quarterly (includes monitoring and testing)
    • Data access procedures – Annual
    • Training program – Annual
    • Overall Security Program/Policy – Annual
  • Designate Information Security Plan Coordinator
  • Develop training program – Human Resources? 
    • Annually
    • Who gets trained?  Departmental heads?  EVERYONE???
  • Develop incident response
    • Hard copy
    • Electronic copy
  • Employee background checks
    • Limited by department
    • Limited by position and/or access to financial or personal data





      Links updated 6/30/08 rab

 

 

 

 

Last Revised 30-Jun-08 04:46 PM.