The University of West Florida has taken steps to comply with the State University System Board of Governors Emergency Regulation 3.0075 – Security of Data and Related Information Technology Resources. 

This regulation required institutions to remove technologies published in the State University System (SUS) Prohibited Technologies List from any university-owned device and to block network traffic associated with these technologies.  As of October 2024, the list includes:

• Kaspersky
• VKontakte
• Tencent QQ
• TikTok
• WeChat
• Temu
• Tutor.com
• CamScanner
• SHAREit
• Alipay
• AliExpress

Use of these applications on University-owned devices or networks will be prohibited and use of these applications will be blocked on devices connected to the campus’ wired and wireless networks. 

urls:

• https://www.dms.myflorida.com/prohibited_applications_list