The Office of the Chief Information Officer now provides the Ohio State community with video tutorials for configuring to connect to the OSU Wireless network. The operating systems featured in the videos are Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.5/10.6.
The OCIO Information Technology Resource guides for students, faculty, and staff are now available online. The reference guides highlight university-provided information and learning technology resources and services available at Ohio State. A limited number of printed copies are available at the IT Service Desk, 025 Central Classroom Building, 2009 Millikin Road. To view and download your copy, visit ocio.osu.edu/guides.
Software: MathWorks MATLAB 2011b for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Folks looking for a copy of the slides presented at the September 1 Security Working Group can find them at http://www.infosec.ohio-state.edu/pmwiki/uploads/InformationSecurity/LANDesk-Sept-Secwog.pdf.
The slides include an overview of the LANDesk product suite and specifically cover information about the product's IT Security related features.
The months seems to drift by these days. Lots of activities within the IT Security space. Rather than continue with the more droll policy and process discussions, this month we're focusing on the university's chosen standard tool for Inventory & Asset management - LANDesk.
PGP Desktop 10.1.1 has been released. On August 21, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) enabled PGP software update alerts and notifications were sent to each computer that has PGP Desktop installed.
PGP Whole Disk Encryption provides comprehensive full disk encryption for all data on desktops, laptops, and removable media. PGP protects data from unauthorized access, providing strong security for intellectual property, customer and partner data. A PGP license is required.
Affected Systems
SOFTWARE: MathWorks MATLAB License Code Renewal
DESCRIPTION: MATLAB is an integrated technical computing environment that combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization, and a high-level programming language. A campuswide site license was initially obtained in November of 2005 through a cost sharing collaboration of the College of Engineering, the Ohio Supercomputer Center and the Office of the Chief Information Officer
Software: STATA 12 (Win/Mac/Linux/Solaris); Stat/Transfer (Win/Mac)
Description: STATA is an environment for manipulating and analyzing data using statistical and graphical methods. It is an integrated package, not a collection of separate modules. This is available as part of the StataCorp Grad Plan. Stat/Transfer is also available as part of the Grad Plan.
System Requirements: Windows 2003/2008/XP/Vista/7; Mac OS X 10.5 and above; Linux Pentium-class PC.
Software: McAfee VirusScan for Mac 9.1 (McAfee Security for Mac 1.1)
Description: McAfee VirusScan is an anti-malware product that prevents and mitigates both viruses and spyware on Macintosh machines. This new version provides support for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or higher; Intel processor (PowerPC no longer supported)
On July 29, OCIO will stop distributing Core FTP from its Site Licensed Software page. Core FTP is a Windows-based file transfer protocol (FTP) client. Currently, the free open source software does not support all the new Secure FTP (SFTP) requirements for OSU Web hosting content updates. As a replacement, OCIO is now distributing FileZilla, a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client. For Windows FTP client software details, see OSU Site Licensed Software at osusls.osu.edu.
