Access to User Data Procedures

Request Access to Former Employee Data

Access to User Data Procedures

In accordance with the Information Security and Acceptable Use Policy, system and application administrators may need to provide information to support authorized investigations. This procedure document outlines the process and identifies the appropriate requestors and approvers for different types of investigations.

Procedure

  • Navigate to the Continuity of Business service.
  • Select Submit New Continuity of Business Request.
  • The requester should be an Authorized Requestor, as seen in the table below, requiring access.
  • The acct/department should be the department the user was a part of.
  • Note the user you are requesting data from.
  • Note what data you need from the user.
  • Provide a justification for access to this data.
  • Provide a date by which the data needs to be provided.
  • Press Request.
Note: COB requests for both staff and faculty should be initiated by a department in a timely matter, staff information will be deprovisioned within 30 days of termination of employment, faculty information will be deprovisioned within 90 days of termination of employment per OIT processes.

 

Responsibilities

If you need to submit a request, click here. Note that you must be the "Authorized Requestor" as is indicated in the table below.

Note: University Attorney should be consulted in cases that are unusual or not objectively reasonable.

Purpose

User(s) involved

Authorized requestor

Authorized approver

Additional requirements

Legal issues (Litigation hold, etc.)

Any

UTD Attorney or UT System OGC

None needed

Document chain of custody

Criminal investigation

Any

UTD Police

UTD Attorney

Document chain

of custody

HR investigation

Current or former faculty, staff, or student workers

HR

Associate VP, HR

None needed

Compliance investigation

Current or former faculty, staff, or student workers

Office of Institutional Compliance

Assistant VP, Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance

None needed

Research Investigation

Any

Office of Research Integrity

Director of Research Integrity

None needed

Internal Audit

Any

Internal Audit

Executive Director, IA

None needed

Academic investigation

Current or former student

Office of Community Standards and Conduct

Dean of Students

None needed

Continuity of business

Former faculty or

staff

User's Dept.

Head

None / University

Attorney1

None needed

Continuity of business

Current faculty or staff

User's Dept. Head

Associate VP, HR

If account is active, user must be unavailable.

Open Records Request

Any

Office of

Administration

None needed

None needed

1 Consult University Attorney in cases that are unusual or not objectively reasonable.

 

Exemptions

If an investigation is extremely sensitive or involves senior members of the faculty or staff, communications may be handled outside of the Atlas ticketing system and members of the Information Security Office (ISO) may be involved.

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