RWTH Aachen University enables you to communicate with RWTH or with others via the Internet. Students can access learning content, submit exercises, contact lecturers, register for exams, connect to the Internet wirelessly, and much more. As an employee, you can record exam results, place orders, or control read or write access to documents containing your research results.
Your password plays a central role in this process: By entering your password, you confirm that you, and not someone else, are accessing data, making documents available, registering for or withdrawing from exams, or communicating in any other way. To ensure that no one else can act on your behalf, it is essential that your password is known only to you and the RWTH servers. RWTH therefore makes every effort to protect your passwords from theft and misuse.
Own Security Responsibility
To keep your passwords secret.
As part of RWTH, you are not only responsible for the security of your own data, but also contribute to the IT security of RWTH. If third parties gain access to your login details, they could cause considerable damage to the systems.
You are therefore responsible for protecting your passwords:
- Never share your password with anyone. RWTH employees will never ask you for your passwords.
- Only enter your password on devices that you trust and that have up-to-date security software (virus scanner, firewall).
- Only enter your password if you are sure that the website you are visiting belongs to RWTH. Check the address of the website you are visiting carefully: RWTH pages always end with “rwth-aachen.de” and use secure encryption. In many browsers, encryption is indicated by a closed padlock symbol in front of the URL.
Strong passwords protect you
Use strong passwords. The RWTH password guidelines require that a password contain at least 8 characters, at least 1 number, and at least 1 letter.
More detailed information and assistance on secure passwords is available on the website of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).