Internet Secuity Policy

By using this site, you are agreeing to security monitoring and auditing. For security purposes, and to ensure that the public service remains available to users, this computer system employs programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage, including attempts to deny service to users.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on any portion of this site are strictly prohibited and are subject to prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 (see Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 and 1030).

To ensure our website performs well for all users, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) monitors the frequency of requests for this website content to ensure automated searches do not impact the ability of others to access this website content. We reserve the right to block IP addresses that submit excessive requests. Current guidelines limit users to a total of no more than 10 requests per second, regardless of the number of machines used to submit requests.

If a user or application submits more than 10 requests per second, further requests from the IP address(es) may be limited for a brief period. Once the rate of requests has dropped below the threshold for 10 minutes, the user may resume accessing content on this website. This practice is designed to limit excessive automated searches on this website and is not intended or expected to impact individuals browsing the this website.

Drugvigil does not allow "unclassified" bots or automated tools to crawl the site. Any request that has been identified as part of an unclassified bot or an automated tool outside of the acceptable policy will be managed to ensure fair access for all users.

Note that this policy may change as the department manages this website to ensure that the website performs efficiently and remains available to all users.

Confidentiality

No sensitive information must be transmitted over the Internet and the World- Wide Web (for example through Web based E- Mail systems) without first being encrypted.

Viruses and Malicious Sof tware Protection

Users are not allowed to run programs obtained from external sources (via the WWW or other non- trusted source) without prior permission from Information Security Department and virus protection checks.

Users should never download files directly into a network server or production machine. Downloads should be directed to a separated (isolated) environment or removable storage media. Upon successful completion of the procedures described on the previous paragraph, users might move the downloaded files to their working directories. Moves to production machine (or equivalent) can only be performed with documented approval from Machine Owner.

Configuration Management

All configuration details (All hardware devices/components, all operating system and application software, all firmware components, physical and logical network addresses, and connecting circuit numbers) of Internet connectivity network architecture must be completely documented and maintained.

Resource Utilization

Use of Internet services will be limited to company- related activities; users must not utiliz e the company’s limited network resources for other purposes rather than company related activities.