Securing Social Security Numbers - ALL EMPLOYEES Action Required
Locating and Protecting

Dr. Killebrew has instructed that all Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi employees will search their workstations, servers, mobile computing devices, and storage devices for Social Security Numbers. Paper documents and forms requesting Social Security Numbers also need to be located and identified.


This email contains three attachments to assist and validate that these actions have been taken. All university employees to include staff, tenured and non-tenured faculty, graduate assistants, student workers, interns, and probationary, temporary, or wage employees must review and, where necessary, complete these documents. Once completed, the employee will turn in the signed attestation form and, if necessary, the exemption form to their immediate supervisor by no later than August 17th, 2007. This supervisor will retain this information until further instructions are provided.



Additional Information

There are several notes to consider when reading this documentation.


  1. DO NOT automatically delete files containing Social Security Numbers until it has been verified that this information is not necessary for business purposes.
  2. WinZip 11.1 is currently not available as it is currently in the process of being purchased. The current version of WinZip provided by the university does not provide the encryption capabilities offered in version 11.1. The latest version should be available sometime in early August. The Faculty/Staff Help Desk will not be able to schedule its installation until it is available.

Please contact the Faculty/Staff Help Desk x2692 or my office x2124 via phone or email if you have any questions.


Securing SSN Documents

Additional copies of these documents can be found on the TAMUCC IT Security Website:



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Take Care,
Don C. Weber
IT Security Manager - Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
CISSP, GIAC

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