Standards & Advisories

This document contains the general requirements for security system work per Division 28.

A set of principles that guide the selection of standards for APIs at Harvard and general development recommendations that impact effective interoperation of our systems and services.

This analysis of the architecture guidance on the number of production VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds) for services deployed in AWS examines four dimensions: Security, Cost, Operations, and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

This document discusses the top challenges researchers experience in the use of the Cloud and provides recommendations and guiding principles for putting a solution into place.

This HUIT standard presents a discussion and implementation guide for incorporating enterprise level meta-data on IT resources and infrastructure. Details of the tags can be found in the attached pdf document.

These Information Security Requirements apply to everyone at Harvard. They provide additional detail on how to be compliant with Policy and should be used as a normal part of daily life at Harvard in order to keep both Harvard confidential data and your...

This document outlines potential problems associated with multiple applications running on a single instance, describes current best practices for isolating production applications, and makes recommendations to mitigate potential problems when best...

This document allows end users the ability to create SharePoint sites/O365 Groups/Microsoft Team sites as a self-service model while maintaining a naming convention for reporting and tracking purposes.

This document defines a basic set of data elements related to operational monitoring and instrumentation that should be provided by systems on-premises, in our AWS Cloud, or a SaaS provider.

The scope of this standard extends to all server instances that are within the HUIT domains on a fully-managed basis, or are hosted within HUIT on behalf of customers that administer the server instances. The overarching goal of this work is to satisfy...

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance and governance for the sourcing of software and packages installed standalone or as part of an operating system on HUIT supported systems.

This document provides a series of guidelines for determining whether a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution should be established with a single shared subscription or multiple subscriptions.