Technology Purchases: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Technology spending represents a large portion of NKU’s annual expenses. IT's Technology Purchase Policy is meant to:

Improve the management of NKU’s campus-wide IT portfolio and underlying IT projects
Ensure compliance with applicable laws and rules
Address campus-wide redundancies and inefficiencies

The following lists cover common technology purchases across campus. When purchasing pre-approved items, IT does not need to be notified. All other non-prohibited items must first be approved by IT before purchase.

Please Note: Any technology purchased, whether it goes through the approval process or not, must adhere to the Acceptable Use, Data Governance and Security, and Information Security Policies to ensure the security of NKU resources.

Pre-Approved

General Peripheral Devices

Keyboards
Mice, Trackballs, Trackpads
Monitors
Headsets (USB or 3.5mm connection)

Dell Products

Optiplex desktops
Latitude laptops

Apple Products

MacBook Pro laptops
MacBook Air laptops
iMac desktops
Mac Mini desktops
iPad and iPad Pro devices
iPad accessories (Pencil, Lightning to USB/HDMI/etc adapters, Thunderbolt adapters, etc.)

Other Items

NWyse Zero Client VoIP devices
Non-data network connected or computer connected electronics (Including, but not limited to: televisions, scales, microscopes)
Smart Televisions
IoT devices
Smart phones or cell phones that use wireless technology
USB-C to Ethernet/HDMI/USB 2/etc) adapters

Prohibited

Personal network routers, bridges, switches, wireless access points, and wireless extenders. This control applies to any equipment that extends the wired or wireless networks
Non-NKU supplied Printers
Network traffic packet capture/analysis (outside of pre-approved College of Informatics and Central IT use cases)
Keystroke logging hardware and software (outside of pre-approved College of Informatics and Central IT use cases)
Rubber Ducky, LAN Turtle and other computer hardware and software hacking tools and devices

Requires IT Approval

The following applies to hardware and software not listed in the pre-approved or prohibited lists.

New software
Software requiring new or additional licensing
Cloud services and hosted applications
Software license renewals

NKU has negotiated deals with certain vendors for computers. Please visit our technology procurement page designed for purchases outside our annual computer replacement program.

Technology Purchases

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