Instructional Academic Computing Committee

Minutes

February 8, 2007
Meeting in AH-1109 at 2 p.m.
John Ross and James Frazee, Co-Chairs

ITS Updates - James Frazee
James Frazee announced there would be minor patches done for the Blackboard system on the last Saturday of February in the early a.m. hours.

One of ITS's summer projects will be a 150 foot conference room atop Starbucks to be used by the School of Nursing. Three rooms will be made into Smart classrooms. In addition, other Smart classrooms around campus will receive a refresh of their technology equipment.

The CATS Conference will be in Fullerton at the end of March. Some attendees can be sponsored. If you want to attend, please email Jim Julius with an explanation of how you'll distribute the information you learn.

Border Firewall Progress - John Ross
John Ross stated that almost all Academic Affairs data has been collected. With the firewall activation, the campus will be getting rid of unneccessary services and making sure the rest of our services are secure. Banning clear text transmissions is a priority goal. FTP is a clear text protocol and will only have a provisional okay until VPN's are in place.

An update on the progress will be sent as an email to all faculty and staff shortly. John Ross will check on when this will be sent. Rich Pickett stated that additional information will be up on the ITSO web site. Rich said the border firewall's purpose is to insure legal and privacy issues for the campus. John Ross stated that discussions were being held on language to define provisional approvals, how approvals move back and forth, and other procedural issues. The idea that as we centralize we also need to streamline the process received agreement from those present.

Patch Management/Anti-Spy deployment - Diana Osborn
The Patch Management committee is having the vendors provide hands-on demonstrations. Diana mentioned there are at least two testers per product right now and three products are being tested. The products are Autonomics, Landesk, and Patchlink. A fourth product is also being evaluated, Altiris, which is already in deployment within Business Affairs.

Anti-Spy software committee had a recent meeting. They are trying to pull together some training on CounterSpy. Something similar to what was offered for EPO deployment; two parts - webinar and engineers' visit.

Next IACC meeting - March 8, 2007 in AH-1120. Email and Meeting Maker notices will be sent.

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