From joe.breen at utah.edu Wed Jan 16 16:19:29 2008 From: joe.breen at utah.edu (Joe Breen) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:19:29 -0700 Subject: [tforum] PC and Network lockdown at the federal government level Message-ID: <478E9101.6000009@utah.edu> For those that support collaborations with federal government entities and for those that track security on PCs and networks, y'all may have an interest in following what the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is pushing along with the Department of Homeland and Security (DHS). ############ PC Lockdown: The following article describes how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed standard security templates that the government is now requiring agencies to apply. The templates are only Windows XP and Vista, though, NIST is developing templates for Apple, Red Hat and other Operating Systems (OS). The templates are the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) and are open for all to use/copy/implement/ignore/etc. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/PC-Lockdown-in-the-Government-and-Beyond/?kc=EWKNLGOV011608FEA1 These templates will impact services that government employees and agencies can utilize at the desktop and, eventually, servers. These templates might also be of use as a reference in the educational/research area. The Federal Desktop Core Configuration documents are at: http://csrc.nist.gov/fdcc/ The NIST Security Automation Program (SCAP) information is at: http://nvd.nist.gov/scap.cfm ############# Network Lockdown: Earlier this month, I participated in a conference call with about 35 others from national research networks, government networks and all the government agencies. The main agenda item was the idea of Trusted Internet Connections (TICs). At the end of November and the first of December, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) held two meetings where they declared that all federal agencies would have to operate through these TICs. Representatives of DHS, NIST and some of the federal agencies are meeting to come up with architecture of what these Connection points will be. The basic concept is that any connection to the Internet or between federal agencies must happen through a standardized set of controls and trusted network site. A Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) is a site where these controls and trusted co-location site exists. This fact means that agencies such as NASA must look at many of their collaborative T1 connections and pare them down to specific TIC locations. This fact also means that the respective agencies will have to implement the standard security controls and all collaborative research and normal communication must go through these controls. The government is hoping to pare down costs by minimizing and aggregating internet and collaborative connections. The government is also hoping to increase security by standardizing the security controls at these aggregation points. The implementation of these TICs will affect network latencies and collaborations with all entities, even between agencies. Many of the agencies represented on the phone conference brought up these subjects. The agencies also pointed out that this mandate does not currently have funding but will require additional resources, especially in the area of security. The OMB document describing the TIC initiative is: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/documents/TIC_ImplementationPlanningGuidance.pdf The Presidential Initiative on Information Systems Security is at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-6-6-its.html Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) http://iase.disa.mil/fisma/index.html *NOTE:* This act requires FISMA compliance for some government collaborations. From joe.breen at utah.edu Wed Jan 23 13:40:01 2008 From: joe.breen at utah.edu (Joe Breen) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:40:01 -0700 Subject: [tforum] [Fwd: remote instruments inventory] Message-ID: <4797A621.90809@utah.edu> FYI, if any would like to contribute... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: remote instruments inventory Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:06:19 -0800 From: James Werle To: 'k20advise at INTERNET2.EDU' All, As we've discussed in the past, it would be a good thing to know as much as possible about the types of remote instruments available to the Internet2 K-20 community via the SEGP program. I'd be happy to try and take a first pass at such a list. Perhaps it would be easiest to send an email to me with info (especially a URL if possible) about what you know to be out there then I'll begin compiling them on a wiki page and share with the group - eventually we can model all this information from within Muse. To start us off, here is what I'm aware of - - Southern Skies Telescope project (not sure if its production level yet) - Lehigh University's Imaginations electron microscope - ROV at Mote Marine Thanks, James From Bonnie.Aksterowicz at HCAHealthcare.com Tue Jan 29 09:11:18 2008 From: Bonnie.Aksterowicz at HCAHealthcare.com (Aksterowicz Bonnie) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:11:18 -0600 Subject: [tforum] Please subscribe me Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: tforum-bounces at lists.uen.org [mailto:tforum-bounces at lists.uen.org] On Behalf Of tforum-request at lists.uen.org Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:09 AM To: Aksterowicz Bonnie Subject: Welcome to the "tforum" mailing list Welcome to the tforum at lists.uen.org mailing list! 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