Carol Lu
Secretary to the Committee
November 4, 2021
Present: Adam Savage, Bill Baer, Don Duff-McCracken, Erick Engelke, Greg Parks, Jason Testart, Paul Miskovsky, Pratik Patel, Robyn Landers, Steven Bourque, Trevor Bain
Guests: Alison Hitchens, Kathy Szigeti, Sandra Keys
Regrets: Daryl Dore, Greg Smith, Andrea Chappell, Andrew McAlorum, Lawrence Folland
Agenda
- Presentation: Research Data Management (Alison Hitchens, Kathy Szigeti, Sandra Keys) [15 min.]
- Chair’s remarks (Steven Bourque) [5 min.]
- Approval of the minutes from Thursday October 21, 2021 [5 min.]
- Campus plan for IPv4 (Erick Engelke, Jason Testart) [15 min.]
- Other business and roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
- Next CTSC Meeting [Will be held Thursday November 18 at 1:30 p.m.]
Presentation: Research Data Management (Alison Hitchens, Kathy Szigeti, Sandra Keys)
- Alison, Kathy and Sandra presented on Research Data Management.
Comments and discussion
- If any CTSC members know of IT staff from their groups that would be interested in research data management, please connect with Alison
- Contact Alison, Kathy, and Sandra if your faculty would like a presentation about research data management
- An update can be provided at a future CTSC meeting next March or April
Chair's remarks
- No remarks.
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
- The previous meeting’s minutes were accepted as distributed.
Campus plan for IPv4 (Erick Engelke, Jason Testart)
- With Engineering building more buildings, more IP addresses are being used
- A plan needs to be developed in order to have more IP addresses available with the increase of campus buildings
- All machines and machine types (e.g. office, student, server, research) will need to be determined first
- Would like to use NATs or private server space for client subnets; keeping everything in Infoblox would not be ideal
Comments and discussion
- Smaller subnet requests can be completed now, but larger requests will require further investigation as there are not a lot of IPs available at the moment
- The plan is to create a working group to brainstorm steps that need to be taken (e.g. at what level should we classify, how should machines be categorized, should NAT be used or not, should a web proxy be used, what other features/options should be considered)
- Will want to use a separate asset management tool, not Infoblox
- CTSC members should contact Steve and Erick if there is someone in their faculty who should be involved in the working group
Other Business/Roundtable
Technology Integrated Services - IST, Steve
- TIS is going to start doing Wi-Fi surveys for buildings that have been converted to Cisco APs
- TIS will require access to labs and offices to use testing devices
- TIS staff will work with building coordinators to gain access (e.g. Plant Ops)
- Will not go into any department areas that access is prohibited for
- Notice will be given to CTSC where applicable
Engineering, Erick
- Engineering developed a tool to graph network IO and signal strength
- Shows rogues, upload speed, download speed and errors
- Developed using inexpensive data collectors (~$100)
- Erick to share specs with CTSC via email after the meeting
- IST is also looking to acquire a few testers for campus groups to use in the future
Information Security Services - IST, Jason
- Board of Governors security presenation slides were shared with CTSC on Teams - any questions or comments?
- During the Board of Governors presentation, most people were concerned about ransomware
- There was some discussion about cyber insurance
- Cyber insurance is relatively new and hard for institutions to implement; cyber insurance companies are losing money because of a high number of payouts
- There was some discussion about cyber insurance