Technology Update

TSAG Meeting 3/11/04

Reminders

CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) 4CNET is being phased out. (our current Backbone Connection)

Coming up real soon… Transfer will be performed during working hours.

Reminder: IPX and Appletalk being phased out

Friday June 4 2004 (Last day of academic year)

Administrative Policies

Use of Campus Accounts for E-mail Endorsed by ATC Approved by the Cabinet and Provost Council

Disk-Storage Quotas Endorsed by ATC Under review by the Cabinet and Provost Council

Internet Service Devices Working defacto policy Under reviewed by ATC

Email Quotas are being Applied Enforcement is underway for:

Over quota == No E-mail! Faculty/Staff maximum email storage limits:

200 MB by March 15, 2004 100 MB by April 15, 2004

Yearly review of quotas by ATC is Complete Faculty/Staff: 100MB [120MB provisioned] (was 30MB) Students: 10MB [ 12MB provisioned] (was 5MB)

100MB == 4,093 average sized e-mail messages (25K)

Telnet & FTP Phase out

Next Step in Tighten-up the Network Perimeter Goal: Block all “inbound” network connections to Telnet and

FTP servers from the Internet

FTP/Telnet phase out: April 15, 2004Exceptions:

suncat.csun.edu: public access to the Library’s on-line catalog ftp.csun.edu: anonymous ftp server

(no password logins starting on Oct 15, 2004) csun1.csun.edu: phase out on Oct 15, 2004

Users WILL be able to use the telnet and ftp from their desktops to access servers located on the Internet!

Password Expiration

Category Maximum Frequenc

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Compliance Date

ITR and Technical Support 90 days Done

PS Administrators 90 days 2/16 ..3/15

Individuals with access to Confidential Information

90 days 2/26 .. 3/25

Faculty/Staff with only self-service roles

180 days 4/15..5/15

Students (current & past) 180 days Pending

All other accounts 90 days 3/15 .. 4/15

Spam: An ever growing problem! Steps in progress:

Updating anti-spam tagging (SpamAssassin) Incorporating Black Lists (https://www.csun.edu/~itrsec)

SBL - Spamhaus Block List CBL - Composite Blocking List NJABL - Not Just Another Bogus List

Need to be concerned about False Positives

Bottom line: Users must decide what is spam and what is not! Local Tech support is needed to help users to

Setup filters via Webmail Utilize antispam features of e-mail clients

AntiSpam Tags Available

Users can configure Server or Client Side filters Available Tags:

X-Spam-Flag: YES (Webmail has filter option!) X-Junkmail: YES X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.6 … X-Spam-Report: * … X-Spam-Level: *****

Users need to set personalized filters. Why? false positives!

TSAG members need to provide support to local users.

Universal Drive

Udrive Available to all User Released to TSAG summer ‘03 Released to ECS fall ‘03 Formal Announcement Coming

Allows users to use “Drag and Drop” for web page publishing

Active Directory GPO to automatically map for all users

MS users: \\udrive\<uid>, e.g., \\udrive\tsag Mac users: smb://smb.csun.edu/tsag