Data privacy keeps you and the university secure

Northeastern takes data privacy seriously and ensures the community has effective policies, services, applications, and tools available.  Maintaining data privacy is a shared responsibility that requires members of the university community to take proactive steps toward ensuring personal and institutional data, files, meetings, and digital tools are secure. This includes adhering to the university’s privacy principles.

Data Loss Prevention tools

Northeastern provides Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools designed to make files and communications more secure and minimize damage bad actors can cause should university accounts get compromised. 

These tools categorize files and content by risk, using sensitivity labels that are based on the university’s Data Classification Guidelines. Northeastern is rolling out these tools so that in the future, Microsoft 365 applications will be fully equipped to ensure data is properly labeled and protected.