Enclosure (1) to COMDTINST 12630.1
C. ORGANIZATION CAPABILITIES. Managers should:
1.
Reconfigure organizational computer and telecommunications resources and evaluate
using employee equipment if offered.
2.
Allocate U.S. Coast Guard microcomputer resources under the Microcomputer
Allowance List (MAL). If managers can achieve significant organizational
improvements that require a change to the MAL, they shall submit complete
justifications with submissions to alter their microcomputer allowances. If employees
use U.S. Coast Guard computer and telecommunications resources, the U.S. Coast
Guard unit office sponsoring the telecommuter pays for computer hardware, software
and telecommunications maintenance, repair, and replacement costs. The employee
may be liable for computer and telecommunications resources issued to him or her for
telecommuting and subsequently damaged by non-employees. Employees may use
Government-owned computers only for Government purposes.
D. INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES. Employees may use personal computers and
telecommunications if they desire at their own expense for maintaining, repairing, and
replacing their computer and telecommunications resources, including any personal files
or data. The U.S. Coast Guard is not responsible for the expense to repair, restore or
replace any personal computers, peripherals, media or data files used for telecommuting
from the home work site.
II.
SECURITY REQUIREMENTS. Telecommuting and any access to U.S. Coast Guard
computers or networks from an alternate work site (such as from a hotel room while on TAD),
creates security risks for the U.S. Coast Guard's information systems hardware and software
infrastructure.
A. The primary concerns are the transmission of software viruses, unauthorized access to
U.S. Coast Guard data, and theft of computer and telecommunication resource time. A
computer virus is software deliberately created to spread mischief or in severe cases
temporarily disable a company's or Government agency's telecommunication networks
and/or computers. Viruses can unknowingly reside on an individual's home computer and
spread on floppy disks or modem transmission to U.S. Coast Guard computers and data
files. Unauthorized access to Government data files for financial or military advantage is
an all-too-common problem whose perpetrators range from teenage hobbyists to foreign
governments' agents. Access by unauthorized users (especially those with a malicious
intent) can degrade the performance of U.S. Coast Guard software applications and
telecommunications networks, impairing mission-critical
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