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Information Security Training Program
June 12, 2009: We are happy to announced the first four courses have been released as part of the Information Security Training for Campus Technical Staff program!
Find it here: Information Security Training Home.
Online Forensics Training
June 10, 2009: From Rick Ensenbach at OET:
Please note the following free online MS-ISAC/Microsoft partnership training opportunity. I would encourage you to take advantage of this free training. The class is available to all State and local government employees.
This online forensics training will be held over two days via Live Meeting Webcast. The training sessions will be held Wednesday, July 22 and Thursday, July 23 from 10:00AM - 5:00PM (CST). Don't miss out - register now! The online training is limited to the first 400 participants.
Check Point Endpoint Security Training
May 14, 2009: Several more training sessions have been scheduled, and room is still available for people who are responsible for administering and supporting Check Point Endpoint Security's hard-drive/media encryption solutions.
There are currently six courses scheduled that you can register for:
- Friday, May 29 (Saint Paul, MN) Course CP02 - Advanced FDE Administration and Protector
- Friday, June 26 (Saint Paul, MN) Course CP01: Check Point Full Disk Encryption (FDE): Administration and Deployment
- Friday, July 10 (Saint Paul, MN) Course CP02 - Advanced FDE Administration and Protector
- Wednesday, July 15 (Duluth, MN) Course CP01: Check Point Full Disk Encryption (FDE): Administration and Deployment
- Thursday, July 16 (Duluth, MN) Course CP02 - Advanced FDE Administration and Protector
- Friday, August 24 (Saint Paul, MN) Course CP02 - Advanced FDE Administration and Protector
Click here for class information and registration instructions.
About the Security Office
The Information Security Office serves to protect the information resources of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system while supporting the open access required by academic pursuit.
Our Responsibilities
The Information Security Office is responsible for:
- coordinating the development of system-wide security policies, standards, and procedures to help ensure that decentralized data, facilities, services, and processes are uniformly protected and
- ensuring that the integrity of MnSCU's central facilities, services and data are maintained through effective security management practices.
Our Projects
Incident Response
For security or urgent assistance for VMI, please email here.
Hard Disk Encryption
We are in the process of implementing Check Point's Endpoint Security - Full Disk Encryption product across the system. Periodic training has been offered on installing and managing this software, and additional information is available here.
Vulnerability Management Infrastructure
The nCircle IP360 platform has been deployed systemwide for vulnerability management. The operational deployed service is now called the Vulnerability Management Infrastructure (VMI). This allows institutions to identify hosts, services, and vulnerabilities on their networks. Institution IT staff can also run trending reports and current-state reports to identify critical issues in a more proactive manner.
For general information and group assistance for VMI, please send an email here to access the internal MnSCU VMI emailing list. (Note: you currently have to be enrolled in the mailing list prior to emailing it.)
For support and assistance for VMI, please email here.
