Acceptable Use Policy
The following Acceptable Use Statement, along with official NASA policy on Information Security and relevant U.S. federal laws, comprise the basic doctrine of the NASA Integrated Services Network Security Program.
Summary:
- NISN supports all NASA Enterprises, Centers, Programs and Projects, and Field Locations.
- NISN is not to be used for private gain or profit.
Specific:
- Use of the NISN must be in support of official NASA programs. All user requests
for NISN connectivity must be validated and supported by
NISN Center/Program Representatives.
- Use of the NISN to support coordination and administrative execution of NASA business is permissible.
- Use of the NISN to support NASA missions, research, related training, and associated technical activities at non-profit institutions of research and education is acceptable.
- Use of the NISN for commercial or intellectual gain by for-profit organizations is not acceptable, unless those organizations are using the NISN to satisfy specific NASA contract or grant requirements.
- Use of the NISN for research or education at for-profit institutions will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to ensure consistency with NASA programs; lack of program approval will result in disconnection.
- Use of the NISN to gain unauthorized use of resources attached to the NISN may result in disconnection and legal prosecution.
- Use of the NISN for the introduction of worms, viruses, Trojans, or other software that maliciously interferes with NISN operations is unlawful.
- Users must place particular emphasis to restricting their disclosure of data and information to those persons who have a definite need for the data in order to perform their official duties.
- Users shall not attempt to access any data or programs contained on the NISN network for which they do not have authorization nor the explicit consent of the owner of the data or program, the NISN Project Manager, or the NISN IT Security Officer.
- Users shall not divulge dialup nor dialback modem phone numbers to unauthorized users.
- Users shall not share account(s).
- Users shall not purposely engage in activity with the intent to:
- Degrade the performance of systems
- Deprive an authorized NISN user of access to a NISN resource
- Obtain resources beyond those allocated
- Circumvent NISN security measures
- Gain access to a NISN IT resource for which proper authorization has not been given
- Electronic communication facilities (such as E-mail, Newsgroups, or World Wide Web) are for authorized government use only. Fraudulent, harassing, or obscene messages and/or materials shall not be sent from, to, or over NISN nor stored on NISN resources.
