Re: [Micronet] VPN for MVS access overview at Micronet 7/20

        Thanks for the notice, Kevin.

        I assume that payroll personnel will not be *required* to
access these services via VPN in July?

        Given that you're still testing, the software is not
available, we don't know if our department's computers meet the
requirements, we haven't had a chance to test it on our machines,
etc. etc. -- will this simply go into affect in May 2005 along with
the rest of the new security policy? What's your timeline?

Thanks,
-Greg

(p.s.: I've included your entire original message and am cc:ing to magnet.)

At 8:59 AM -0700 6/30/04, Kevin Burney wrote:
>As announced in February, the campus is implementing Financial Leave
>Accrual, utilizing the central Payroll Personnel System (PPS) as the
>system of record for leave accrual. Therefore, PPS will be
>distributed to a wide audience of payroll administrators across
>campus, many of whom are supported by the Micronet community.
>Currently the central payroll office is delivering training to the
>departmental payroll administrators. Upon successful completion of
>this training, the departmental payroll administrators will be
>granted access to PPS, a mainframe application. Given the
>sensitivity of this data, and also as specified in the campus
>Minimum Standards Policy, it is important that the access method be
>secure and encrypted. As you may have heard, the campus is
>implementing a VPN solution to access this secure mainframe
>application. The VPN client is simple to install, and will be
>downloadable from software.berkeley.edu. Departmental payroll
>administrators will have access to PPS beginning in July and will
>need to download and install this client, which is currently being
>tested. A process for support from a central help desk will also be
>outlined when the client is made available online.
>
>To prepare departmental IT staff for this, and to answer any
>questions you might have, we will be presenting a technical overview
>of the solution, focusing on client installation issues, at the next
>Micronet meeting on July 20th - 10:00am to 12:00pm - 775 Tan Hall.
>All IT staff who support payroll administrators are encouraged to
>attend.
>
>We will also be discussing the recently approved Campus Policy -
>Minimum Security Standards for Networked Devices.
>
>__________________________________________________
>Kevin Burney
>Computer and Network Systems Architect
>BFIT / Office of the Vice Chancellor of Budget and Finance
>University of California at Berkeley
>__________________________________________________
>

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