Policies, procedures, and standards

• Policies, procedures, and standards

  IS engages in a dialogue with its customers about the substance and rationale of I/T policy, procedures, and standards. IS educates its customers about the use of information technology, the need for I/T standards across MIT, the scope of IS's resources, and IS's recommended products and services.

  IS advocates the use of and adherence to standards as a key step in providing a scaleable, common computing environment with applications developed to interact smoothly with each other and the MIT infrastructure. IS is extensively involved in external standards-setting activities and advocates with customers and vendors for the adoption of those standards.

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