CISC Minutes
November 12, 2009
Attendees: LeRoy Brown, Kevin Young, Kevin Dent, Dave Nielsen, Scott Horne, Chad Lyman, Brett McKeachnie, Mike Taylor, Dave Andrus, Robert Ward, Robert Johnson, Roark Fisher
Area Reports
Brett—working on installing a new SPAM filter, Barracuda will be going away soon―replaced by MailMarshal. It is a robust product that has a constant update (every 10 minutes), blended threat database, and can block access to sites. Brett is also working on an incident of SPAM quarantine summaries not being sent out on a regular basis. He suggests you log in and check the filter.
Roark―Gave an update on the statewide Disaster Recovery meeting that was held here Tuesday. They went over the procedures and techniques that the various colleges are using.
Mike―He has had a request from Connie Bond to use lab computers for children grades 2 thru 12. The committee recommended that those students not be given access to those computers due to the fact that the law requires certain filters to be on for that age group and those computers do not meet the requirements.
Scott—Is having trouble with student employees accessing social networking sites on 10 computers that are for part time employees use. It was suggested that he could do a redirect or use Site Advisor to make a limited account. Scott will work with Dave Nielsen to work something out.
Security Update
There are three critical updates and three important updates that were issued from MicroSoft on Tuesday. Get machines patched as soon as possible.
Apple released a security update on Monday. They also released an update for Safari.
The 10.6.2 patch is working great. There is also one of the patches that is failing and giving problems―it might be with a registry entry it can’t write to.
There is a new version of McAfee Reports that only uses 30 mg of memory; Artemis, a new pop-up sends to McAfee. Also, McAfee is dropping support for Netware. If you notice anything on the ST servers, notify Dave Nielsen.
Other Issues
Anyone who has servers in the data center, be aware that by this coming Summer we will be forcing firewalls internally.
Dave has seen a lot of events, but so far hasn’t heard of any problems with HIPS. So far no one is complaining of anything breaking.
The Banner Security position description is finished and LeRoy is trying to get the job posted tomorrow.