How is the information being secured?
All physical access to the sites of the contractor, where this system of records is maintained, is controlled and monitored by security personnel who check each individual entering the building for his or her employee or visitor badge. The computer system employed by the Department offers a high degree of resistance to tampering and circumvention by use of software that requires user access to be defined to specific online functions. This security system limits data access to users on a “need to know” basis and controls individual users’ ability to access and alter records within the system. All users of this system are given a unique user ID with a personal identifier. Most data is loaded into NSLDS via a batch process. The security utilized ensures that only data from authorized data providers can add or update records in NSLDS.
