SDSU Campus Wide Network Security

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SDSU Campus Wide Network Security

• Kris Stewart
• Education Center on Computational Science and
  Engineering,
• San Diego State University,
• November 4, 1999 AH1141

• Why now?
• What is the issue?
• Why should faculty be involved?

Also here for this conversation John Denune, TNS
SysAdmin mail.sdsu.edu Bob Cademy, Academic
Affairs Kent Mckelvey, TNS Network Engineer
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Why now?

• Actually should have been in place five or ten
  years ago
• Additional urgency now due to SDSU being on the
  Internet2 Abilene network (high speed link via
  OC3 155 Mpbs
• June 99 Presentation by Tom Perrine, SDSC network
  security expert for CSU Faculty workshop at SDSU
  (hardcopy handout)

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http//www.csu.net/maps/southern_sites.html
Nov. 4, 1999
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What is the issue?

• The Campus Network is a community resource and if
  it is compromised on any computer, attached to
  the campus backbone, every other computer is
  vulnerable
• Need for awareness of who is responsibleTechnica
  l support individual college staffNetwork
  support who is your SysAdmin?Security support
  (new) who for Academic Affairs?
• Draft document developed (Hard copy handout)
  your feedback?

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Why should faculty be involved?

• Communications (via email) is ubiquitous
• Collaborations with colleagues, sharing
  documents, Video Teleconferencing
• Network researchers (Computer Science faculty,
  Computer Engineering faculty, others?)
• Distributed Learning

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Other voices, please