December 1TA/ ISA Meeting IdentityFinder to protect UTSA confidential data Updates on securing confidential data on university computers and transitioning to unified voicemail and email communications were among the topics discussed Thursday, Dec. 12 by IT professionals at UTSA. The topics were shared at the monthly meeting of Information Technology Associates and Information Security Associates (ITA/ISA) hosted by the Office of Information Technology. Identity Finder was introduced by Alex Ward, OIT Information Security Analyst, as a campus-wide replacement for SenF, a previously-used data protection program. IdentityFinder is powerful security and privacy software designed to help UTSA protect sensitive student, faculty and staff data. Using the company’s proprietary AnyFind technology, Identity Finder intelligently and automatically locates social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank accounts and other private data that can be used to commit identity fraud. The product searches within files, emails, desktop, servers, databases, websites and systems where people might not even realizes their computer stored information. Beyond identification, the technology helps securely shred or encrypt the personally identifiable information. Public-facing computers, those most likely to contain student information and critical databases such as Banner and Datamart, will be among the first to be scrubbed, Ward told the group. OIT is continuing to prepare for the campus-wide replacement of UTSA’s voicemail mailbox system early next year, said Brent League, OIT’s Director of Data Center Operations. OIT will soon be offering Unified Messaging services which allows faculty and staff to manage their messages using a computer, telephone or mobile device. Users will be able to open and listen to voicemail from their UTSA email account. He also gave an update on migration to Box, which will allow faculty and staff to store content online, so you can access, manage and share it from anywhere. Individuals already using Box technology with a UTSA email address will simply be assimilated with the rest of the campus this coming year. Other topics at the meeting included an update on the Configuration Manager 2012 client push and the process change for updates and patching via Configuration Manager 2012. Ben Garcia, OIT’s Director of Customer Service and Operations Support, noted Microsoft released a new client and virus definition update last week; in other words, information about how Microsoft cleans and removes viruses and other threats from personal computers. “I’d never seen that before,” Garcia told the audience, in regard to the reboot that occurred. UTSA updates its computers three times daily and has 95.7 percent of its active client systems protected, he reported. Brad Cooper, IT Senior Information Security Analyst, gave an overview of Network Access Control (NAC), which will be rolled out over several years on a building-by-building, floor-by-floor basis. NAC is a networking solution that uses protocols to secure access to network nodes by devices when they first access the network. It represents UTSA’s best effort to unify endpoint security technology (such as antivirus, host intrusion and vulnerability assessment) with user/system authentication and network security enforcement. From Dec. 18 through Dec. 20, OIT will be replacing PrintSpot printers on the 1604 and downtown campuses. Part of the upgrade is a server/software upgrade, which means new printers will be configured to see only the new print servers. A new PrintSpot client package will need to be installed for PC and Mac users on workstations and laptops to be able to print to the new print queues, James Lee, Systems Analyst II in Student Computing Services, told the group. Next year ITA/ISA meetings will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on the second Friday of each month at MB 0.302 and FS 2.518 except during spring break (when the meeting has been moved to the third Friday of March). Matthew Marr, OIT Support Services Manager, led the discussion one.utsa.edu/sites/oit/about/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=218
Posted on: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:35:15 +0000
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