Building a Security Program

Presented at the 2016 FAEDS Conference by NWRDC Executive Director Tim Brown, CISSP, CISA.

Building a Security Program

NWRDC Maintenance and Meetings Calendar

Saturday, August 18th

NWRDC Network Maintenance in Atlanta
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, August 18th
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 12:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Atlanta Network Maintenance
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, August 11, 2018 0800 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, August 11, 2018 1200 (EDT)
  Service Availability: Intermittent Network Services outages possible
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing routine software maintenance to network equipment in Atlanta on Saturday, August 11, 2018. During the maintenance window, we do expect a brief network interruption during the update. We will notify all customers when work has been completed.
  
  Questions?
  We are here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
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Monday, August 20th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, August 20th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
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Wednesday, August 22nd

NWRDC CIS virtual environments scheduled maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Wednesday, August 22nd
- Start time: 09:30am
- End time: 06:00pm
- Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 0930 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Friday, August 24, 2018 1800 (EDT)
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing standard virtual center server appliance (VCSA) and host patching in the NWRDC Tallahassee and Atlanta virtual environments.
  
  Questions?
  We're here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850)645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu
- Click for details on Google calendar.
Webinar: Visibility as a Service
- Calendar: NWRDC Meetings
- Start date: Wednesday, August 22nd
- Start time: 10:00am
- End time: 11:00am
- Join our service partner ForeScout for this informational webinar. Learn about the current trends in IT that call for the implemenation of discovery tools and how these tools can be used to improve and protect your IT environments.
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Saturday, August 25th

NWRDC Routine Firewall Maintenance in Atlanta
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, August 25th
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 10:00am
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Atlanta Network Maintenance
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, August 25, 2018 at 0800 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, August 25, 2018 at 1000 (EDT)
  Service Availability: No service interruption expected
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing network maintenance on Saturday, August 25th, to update the NWRDC Firewall Software in Atlanta. During the maintenance window, we do not expect any network interruption as the Firewall is a redundant pair. We will notify all customers when work has been completed.
  
  Questions?
  We are here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, August 27th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, August 27th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, September 3rd

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, September 3rd
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, September 10th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, September 10th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, September 17th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, September 17th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.