Objectives
The purpose of these website policies is to clearly explain how this website operates, what website's visitors can expect, and what is expected from website's visitors.
It ensures protecting both the website owner and the website's visitors, while also ensuring legal and ethical compliance.
Some of the main objectives of these website policies are : Legal Protection, Transparency, User Rights & Responsibilities, Data Privacy & Security,
Compliance with Laws etc.
The website of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education is governed by the various policies as mentioned below :
Introduction
Content Archival Policy (CAP) of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education represent the guidelines for effectively managing all the information published on the website.
Scope of CAP
Content Archival Policy is applicable to all the content published on the website such as Updates from Institutes, Forthcoming events, Recruitments, Tenders, Photo Gallery, Video gallery etc.
Objectives of CAP
A mechanism to be in place for effectively archiving the information on the website.
Effective accessing of archived information for Adminstration and Research purposes.
To improve the ease of use and accessibily of information published on the website
Archival Policy applicable for
Forthcoming Events - Information published under section of Forthcoming Events will remain within active published information on the website till the date of applicability of the Forthcoming Events. Thereafter, information relevant to the Forthcoming Events will be moved under archival section of Forthcoming Events.
Bulletin Board - Information published under section of Bulletin Board will remain within active published information on the website till the date of applicability (decided on the basis nature and importance of the informatio ) of the information published under Bulletin Board. Thereafter, information relevant to the Bulletin Board will be moved under archival section of Bulletin Board.
Updates from ICFRE Institutes - Latest 15 such updates will remain published under section of Updates from ICFRE Institutes and remaining updates will be moved under archival section of Updates from ICFRE Institutes.
ICFRE Technologies - Latest 15 such technologies will remain published under section of ICFRE Technologies and remaining updates will be moved under archival section of ICFRE Technologies.
Recruitments - Latest 20 recruitment's advertisement remain under section of Recuritment. Subsequently remaining Recruitment's advertisement will be moved under archival section of recuitment.
Tenders - Latest 15 tenders's advertisement remain under section of Tenders. Subsequently remaining Tenders's advertisement will be moved under archival section of tenders.
Photo Gallery - Latest 15 event's photo gallery remain under section of Photo Gallery. Subsequently remaining event's photo gallery are moved under archival section of photo gallery.
Video Gallery - Latest 15 event's video remain under section of Video Gallery. Subsequently remaining event's videos are moved under archival section of videos gallery.
Taruchintan - Latest 10 documents published under the section of Taruchintan remains under the active section of Taruchintan. Subsequently remaining documents are moved under archival section of Taruchintan.
Newsletters - ICFRE publishes newsletters under various categories such as ICFRE NEWSLETTERS, ICFRE NEWSLETTERS 'VANIKI SAMACHAR' IN HINDI, CLIMATE NEWSLETTERS etc. Only 10 latest newsletters under each category remain published under section of Newsletters and remaining newsletters are moved to the archival section of ICFRE Newsletters.
Rajbhasha - Latest 10 rajbhasha documents will remain published under section of Rajbhasha and remaining documents will be moved under archival section of Rajbhasha.
Archival Policy not applicable for
Information published in the remaining section / webpages does not comes under the Content Archival Policy.
The goal of the content review policy is to keep the information on www.icfre.gov.in current and pertinent. Since the content of the different sections of www.icfre.gov.in may differ, different review dates are set for each component. This review policy is based on content element categories, their nature, validity, and relevance, as well as the archival policy.
Content Contribution
Content can be provided by the competent authorities / staff as mentioned below:
Director General ICFRE
Head of Directorates at ICFRE HQ
Head of Divisions at ICFRE HQ
Director of the respective ICFRE's Institute and Research Centres / IT Cell Incharge of the respective ICFRE's Institute and Research Centres
Content Moderation and Approval
Content can be approved by the staff as mentioned below:
Head, Information Technology Division of the ICFRE
Web Information Manager of the ICFRE's website
Preventive Measures
Content of the website are stored in backups on daily basis.
Content of the databse are stored in backups on daily basis.
Content of the website is updated using IP based access on Local Area Network only.
Contengency Plan
Detection
Any disruption / vulenribilty in the availability of the website's service must be reported immediately to the Web Information Manager.
The IT Team of the ICFRE must asseses the cause and impact of the issue.
Communication
Immediate detailed information about the incident must be shared with the Head, IT Divison, Web Information Manager and Incharge ofData Centre .
Notification must be shared with the staff of the ICFRE and other stakeholders.
Regular updates must be shared with the staff of the ICFRE and other stakholders through email, website and other commincation mode.
Website Restoration
The content of the website must be restored from the latest backups ensuring the last updated data to be in place.
IT Team must ensure the correctness and synchronicity of the data published on the website while restoration
Post-Incident Measures
The findings and cause must be well documented with reference points.
Steps taken, challenges to recover from the incoudent must be well documented.
Awareness and Measures
The staff must be awared about changing of password in regular interval of time and use of strong password.
Purpose
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education provides this website and the information it contains as a service to the public. This system is monitored to make sure it is operating correctly, to confirm that the relevant security elements are working, and for similar reasons. Every user of this system gives their express agreement to be monitored.
Content of the website is regularly monitored for the purpose as mentioned below:
Ease of use and accessibility.
To maintain the 24/7 accessibility of the ICFRE website.
To maintain efficiency and performance of the ICFRE website.
Mechanism
Login records are monitored regularly to keep track of any suspicious login attempts.
The feedback system feedback system allows visitors to provide feedback through a feedback form. Additionally, provide a tool for analyzing user comments, which will aid in improving the website based on suggestions from users.
Purpose
The purpose of security policy is to ensure protection of its data, information, systems, and assets from threats and misuse.
In order to achieve the purpose of the security policy, some of the best practices followed by the ICFRE are as :
Use of long randomly generated hard to guess passwords for accessing the admin panels, servers, information system etc.
Changing the password at predefined regular intervals of time.
Allowing only IP based local area network access to admin panels, servers, information system etc.
Storing of password and other sensitive information in the database in encrypted form.
Conducting regular security audit of the web portals from CERT-IN empanelled vendors.
Performing penetration checks regularly on the login system of admin panels.
Use of verified and trusted SSL certificates for the websites.
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