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

Friday, October 18th

NWRDC CIS Scheduled Infrastructure Maintenance for Tallahassee
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Friday, October 18th
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 06:00pm
- Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services in Tallahassee
  Maintenance Start Time: Friday, October 18, 2019 0800 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Monday, October 21, 2019 1800 (EDT)
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected for customer servers.
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing standard maintenance updates in the CIS TLH Infrastructure.
  
  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.

Tomorrow

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 21st
- 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.

Tuesday, October 22nd

NWRDC CIS Virtual Environment Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Tuesday, October 22nd
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 06:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 0800 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Friday, October 25, 2019 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.

Wednesday, October 23rd

NWRDC Management Committee Meeting
- Calendar: NWRDC Meetings
- Where: Conference Call
- Start date: Wednesday, October 23rd
- Start time: 11:30am
- End time: 12:30pm
- Regular monthly meeting of the NWRDC Management Committee. If you are interested in joining this meeting, please contact Kate Wasson at kate_wasson@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
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Saturday, October 26th

NWRDC Ticketing System/Service Portal Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, October 26th
- Start time: 10:15am
- End time: 02:15pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Ticketing System/Service Portal
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, October 26, 2019 1015 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, October 26, 2019 1415 (EDT)
  Service Availability: Service Portal access may be temporarily unavailable
  
  Details: The NWRDC Ticketing System/Service Portal will be undergoing a regularly scheduled upgrade. During this upgrade, access to the Service Portal may be temporarily unavailable. If you are unable to submit a ticket during this maintenance window, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500 and they will assist you.
  
  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.

Sunday, October 27th

NWRDC CIS Virtual Environment Portal Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Sunday, October 27th
- Start time: 09:00am
- End time: 06:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services in Tallahassee
  Maintenance Start Time: Sunday, October 27, 2019 0900 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Sunday, October 27, 2019 1800 (EDT)
  Service Availability: The cloud management portal will be unavailable during this time. No downtime nor performance impact is expected for VM guests.
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing a management software upgrade in the NWRDC Tallahassee virtual environment.
  
  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.

Monday, October 28th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 28th
- 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, November 4th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, November 4th
- 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.