Committee meeting - June 23, 2016

Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
June 23, 2016

Present: 

Bruce Campbell (Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Trevor Bain, Colin Bell, Steven Bourque, Andrea Chappell, Erick Engelke, Dave Gawley, Bob Hicks, Dawn Keenan, Sati Singh

Guests:

Mark Gaulton, Mike Patterson

Regrets:

Marko Dumancic, Dave Kibble, Robyn Landers, Paul Miskovsky, Carl Nagel, Jason Testart

Agenda

  1. Email Security Gateway (Mark Gaulton, Mike Patterson) [45 min.]
  2. Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
  3. Approval of the minutes of the meeting of June 9, 2016 [5 min.]
  4. Other Business [5 min.]
  5. Next CTSC Meeting

[Will be held Thursday, July 21, 2016, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 111.]

Email Security Gateway (Mark Gaulton, Mike Patterson)

Mark Gaulton and Mike Patterson attended the meeting to discuss Email security gateway. Topics included:

  • Mail flow overview
  • Implementation steps
  • Policy overview

Full presentation available upon request.

Comments & discussion

  • SpamAssassin will still be in place ahead of the InterScan system for now.
    • InterScan will quarantine email’s that have been flagged by SpamAssassin but will also do its own scan.
  • End users will get summaries/lists of quarantined emails and be able to moderate (to some extent) themselves.
  • There is the ability to whitelist senders (useful for situations where someone like the Provost or President are sending mass emails).
  • Suspicious URL’s will get stripped before reaching destination.
  • This system also provides us with a Deep Discovery analyzer which will send suspicious links/attachments to a separate cloud to explode them to see if they are dangerous.

Chair’s Remarks

None

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.

Other business

None.

Next meeting

The next meeting will be held on July 21, 2016 at 1:30pm, in EC2 111.