[Micronet] Campus information security officer announcement

From: Jack McCredie (mccredie@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 10:15:32 PDT

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    Colleagues,

    After a thorough national search, I am pleased to announce
    that Craig Lant, from LBL, has accepted the position of UC
    Berkeley campus information security officer. Craig
    will start in this new position on September 11.

    I would like to thank all of you who attended the candidates'
    seminars and provided me with feedback. In addition, I
    would like to acknowledge the excellent job that the
    screening committee did in this search process.

    As part of our efforts to improve our ability to respond
    to security incidents, we have been compiling a list
    of key contacts for each department. Early in the
    summer John Broughton distributed a memo
    requesting that every department name a security
    contact. We have received many responses, but the
    list is not yet complete. If you have not yet responded
    to this request, would you please take a few minutes
    and provide us with the contact information requested
    in John's earlier email. A copy of his request is
    included below.
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    IST would like to get the following SIX items of information to set up a
    point of contact for your department. You can provide these by

    (a) sending an e-mail to security@berkeley.edu.

    (b) inserting the requested information for the following six items:

    (1) Name of department(s):
    [In some cases, one security contact may be set up for multiple
    departments. If you want to do this, please list all departments.]

    (2) (If applicable) Common domain name of computers in the department:
    [Some departments have domain names (for example, the College of Chemistry
    uses CChem) that appear in many, most, or all computer names. It is very
    helpful for IST to know this. If your department doesn't have such a
    naming convention, leave this item blank.]

    (3) E-mail point of contact:
    [Ideally, the e-mail point of contact will NOT be a person or persons,
    although that is acceptable. It is preferred that a point of contact be
    something with "sec" or security" in its name. Here are examples for a
    hypothetical Department of Andthology:
    -- security@andthology.berkeley.edu,
    -- security-andthology@logic.berkeley.edu
    -- sec-andthology@logic.berkeley.edu
    Mail sent to such an address should automatically go to at least two people
    in the department. This can be done, among other ways, by using a Unix
    reflector or by setting up a small mailing list (see
    http://www-uclink.berkeley.edu/major/major.create.html on how to create a
    mailing list on UCLink; note that such a mailing list name can be longer
    than the standard uclink e-mail address).]

    (4) [Optional] Any additional information about this point of contact
    (for example, alternate individual e-mail addresses and names):

    (5) Subnet number(s) for the department(s):
    [If you don't know your departmental subnet number(s), please provide a
    full IP address for ONE computer in your department(s), and the approximate
    number of computers in the department(s).]

    (6) Building(s) where computers are located:

    Please note that the security@berkeley.edu e-mail address that this
    information should be sent to is also used to REPORT security-related
    problems for which assistance may be needed.
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    Regards,

    Jack McCredie
    Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Technology
    Chief Information Officer
    209 Evans Hall
    University of California, Berkeley
    Berkeley, CA 94720-3812
    510-642-4096

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