Relevant Efforts

Data Inventory

To comply with the State of Maryland’s Higher Education Data Privacy Act, USM Cyber Security Standards, and NIST Cyber Security guidelines, UMD must maintain a centralized comprehensive inventory of all “Systems of Record” that store information about living human beings. In order to meet this requirement, we are working with IT staff, business officers, and others across campus to gather details about UMD Systems of Record. 

The inventory will include information about what is stored and where, but not any of the actual data stored in the Systems of Record.  One purpose of this requirement is to record all shared systems for storing personally identifiable information and its purpose/use.

The law comes into effect on October 1; so we will be reaching out and following up with everybody, so that inventories can be submitted by September 15.