Transcript BSD Computing Activities

BSD Computing Activities
• BIS PeopleSoft activities
• Information Management (in DOE
sense)
• Computer Security (in DOE sense)
• Desktop Support
• BSD Firewall Project
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BIS PeopleSoft System
• Development by SCS Business
Applications Support (BAS)
– Tightly “matrixed” to BSD
• Desktop support supplied directly by
BSD
• Year 2000 Testing
– Mandated by DOE before 3/31/99
– Currently developing Testbed
environment
– Target completion date 1/4/99
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Information Management
Activities
• Year 2000 Point-of-Contact with DOE
• UNICALL Budget Cross-cut
– Used to be IM budget for the whole
Lab
– May be different this year
• Review of Purchase Requisitions for IT
acquisitions
– $20K threshold
– Reviewed for technical coherence
with respect to other Lab programs
– Major Information Acquisitions
(MIAs)--$1M threshold
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DOE Computer Security
• “Computer Protection Program
Manager” or CPPM
• Preparation of the Laboratory
Computer Protection Plan (CPP)
• Liaison with DOE for incident reporting
• Lab representative for Unclassified
Computer Security at DOE meetings
– Tensions between Unclassified and
Classified Programs
– Just lived through an attempt to
combine
– Bad guys seem to be winning again
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Desktop Support Activities
• BSD was the first Departmental
“Trusting” Windows NT Domain
• Support 154 Windows NT Systems
and 2 Macs
– Only 3 self administered NT
systems
– Very different user community than
rest of Lab
• Very close alliance with SCS Desktop
Support Group
– Championed SMS development
– Deep security concerns since NT is
a “sieve” when it comes out of the
box
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BSD Firewall Project
• Protect the PeopleSoft Database and a
few key BSD workstations through any
attacks that are mounted against
SLAC
• “Hydra” Server with RS5 encrypted
clients for all PeopleSoft access
• Network VLAN isolation in the event of
an attack
• Need for timely and systematic
technology upgrades
– Mature Domain
– Essential for Desktop support
– Needs to be funded globally, not
from group budgets
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