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Project Calendar

DATE

ACTIVITIES / MILESTONES

   

October 20

Security Project begins

   

October 20-22

Activities:

  • Review of campus policies and procedures
  • Review of campus network environment
   

October 26

WCU Security Team (CIRT) formed

   

October 27

WCU Security Web Page updated – Comment form available to the community

   

October 25-29

Activities:

  • Review user comments and concerns
  • Invite stakeholders and advisory committees to provide input on policies and procedures
    • Students
    • Faculty and Academic College representatives
    • Internal Auditor
    • Hunter Library
    • –Division of Information Technology staff
    • NCCAT
   

November 1-5

Activities:

  • Draft security policies, rules, regulations, and standards
  • Draft firewall policies, security matrix
  • Legal review of policies, rules, regulations, and standards
  • Publish draft policies, rules, regulations, and standards
   

November 5

Draft published on web

   

November 7-12

Activities:

  • Solicit campus review and comments of draft policies, rules, regulations, and standards
  • Conduct meetings with constituents:
   

November 12

Publish preliminary policy and procedures

   

November 13

External Firewall Deployed

   

November 15-19

VPN Deployed

   

November 20

Internal Firewall Deployed

   

November 24

End of project

 
 
 
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