15.17 – Employee Access to Data and Potential Conflict of Interest

PART 1: PURPOSE

This Rule specifies the authorization requirements for NMSU employees who have access to the university’s central computing systems, and through those systems, access to wide-ranging types of data that creates the potential for conflicts of interest

PART 2: RULE

In order to mitigate the risk of conflict of interest, any employee who has update/modify capabilities to data, where those capabilities may result in a conflict of interest, must obtain authorization from the appropriate data custodian.  The data custodian is authorized to grant employee access based on job responsibility.