The following members attended today's cyber conference call:
Margaret Bunch |
Site Administrators Rep -- Carson City, NV |
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Katherine Lins |
OWI Chief -- Reston, VA |
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Scott McEwen |
CR Computer Specialist -- Lakewood, CO |
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Marilyn Billone |
ITAC Executive Secretary, Reston, VA |
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Sandy Williamson |
National Water Quality Assessment -- Tacoma, WA |
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Steve Glodt |
NWQL Representative -- Denver, CO |
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Sonya Jones |
ITAC Chair -- Austin, TX |
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Jeff Stoner |
Minnesota District Chief, Mounds View -- MN |
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Sonja Sebree |
World Wide Web Development -- Lincoln, NE |
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Garry Neverdon |
Reston, VA |
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Brian McCallum |
Data Chief -- Atlanta, GA |
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Tim McElhone |
Acting, NR Regional Computer Specialist -- Lansing Michigan |
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Joel Johnson |
Data Base Management Systems -- Sacramento, CA |
C&A Update/Briefing (Garry Neverdon)
C&A training from DOI was held this week in Reston; detailed going through DOI versions of documentation. Worked through requirements. Judy Snoich - IT Capital Planning Investment Coordinator (CPIC) -- previously at DOI; she has different view as to how to address the enclave documentation for Dept. Will work through by Monday or Tuesday next week. Will go through review to make sure it's understandable.
Q: C&A - Have to identify systems that are high risk; dates for
each. GIO has put together enclaves. The high-risk systems will have
to have C&A by July31, 2004.
A: Describe process: 12 enclaves are described by USGS: Taken
from the C&A
Web site:
There are 12 USGS IT Systems.
Three enclaves are due this July: LandSat, E-Web, and National Map (which is huge). Documentation due for C&A July 2004. Financial management enclave, property management, office automation general, office automation specialized mission systems.due July 2005 as drop-dead date.
That's schedule of what's needed from the Bureau. Under discussion
as to what is needed from the field.
Q: SAs - Will they get
documentation for E-Web enclave? Yes, by 3/29/04, hopefully. By end of
next week, to regional testers. They are reviewing a package related to
the process. Scott is a reviewer; several from Regions.
Garry will be involved in setting up a process that includes having a
USGS "C&A expert" as a resource.
A: Contact names for each enclave. Will start some cyber seminars to help walk through the process.
Q: Regarding E-Web: Are there some things the Districts can be doing now?
A: Any advance work would help now - risk assessment; what's
needed for back-up; contingency planning. That would help feed the
process.
Q: Can we use the NWIS Security Plan?
A: This was discussed. Management, operation, and technical
controls (password policy) would be needed for systems not included in
the NWIS plan.
Q: Risk assessment and contingency plan covers what District has going on.
A: Don't need two sets of everything (risk assessments/security
plans). For example, locked doors on District computer room.
Q: Can C&A documentation refer to each District? Does
contingency plan include for public Web serving of all pages?
A: It's possible to use the one plan.Districts have to build
beyond NWIS. Discussion on this followed. A lot that was done for NWIS
applies to the District operations too. Would like to go through it
only once. If documents are comprehensive enough at a District level,
then it won't be too hard to build on them and refer to them for
different C&As for different systems.
Q: Additional training on C&A?
A: Department is offering in Denver & Menlo Park in a few months.
It's in TMS now. One concern is that DOI is much more rigorous in what
it wants than what probably is really required.
Garry: Bureaus are now
only required to have "table-top" exercises for their contingency plans.
(It was mentioned that Richard Hollway needs to know this.)
Mar2004.Telecon.1 -
Katherine will inform Susan to have Richard check into it. Need to be
careful...
Discussion followed: Richard is an expert right in our backyard.
Why is NWIS restricting his activity? He should be helping Districts.
Garry reminded that NWIS contingency plan is the "buddy system " which
may not be the case for sites with Web servers. Several sites have had
disasters and not recovered; therefore may need assistance beyond NWIS
to design and test a plan.
Mar2004.Telecon.2
- Katherine Lins will make sure Susan knows to have Richard "check in"
with Garry. We should also ask him to look at the C&A team's process
document coming out for review. Ask that he look at from Districts'
perspective. Although he is not available to be a resource for all of
Water, he can be resource for Scott and other RCSs. The burden of
documentation is difficult.
Q: Shouldn't Water take control of this process Judy Snoich for the GIO is in place now - got her approach on setting boundaries of enclaves; and reduce amount of info needed from the field. DOI documentation is good but there's a lot of it! The C&A team doesn't want to send this out to the field yet; need to put boundaries around it.
Discussion of Outstanding/Pending Action Items
Mar2004.Telecon.3
- Marilyn Billone will forward USGS Weekly Highlight (2/2-6/04)
announcing the Pubs Warehouse to District Chiefs and ITAC. COMPLETED -- Marilyn sent e-mail to ITAC members on
3/15/04.
Travel Plans for Alaska.
Discussion: Nothing sent to District Chief yet. Need to make
reservations. Longest day of the year will be when we're traveling
there (6/21/04). Apparently, it's a tourist attraction. Need to start
setting up travel plans.
Mar2004.Telecon.4
- Marilyn Billone will contact District Chief's secretary in Anchorage
for hotel info, etc. ITAC members will need local phone number of
hotel. (Goal: To be done by early next week.)
COMPLETED -- Marilyn sent
e-mail to ITAC on 3/17/04.
Mar2004.Telecon.5
- Sandy Williamson will send airfare information to ITAC members.
COMPLETED -- Sandy did this 3/14/04.
Meeting place for October 2004? Central Region is next. recommended Austin. (ITAC met there in 1998.)
Sandy - Referred to his spreadsheet of meeting locations. ITAC met in Denver in 1995.
Discussion: Maybe scale back to two meetings/year, instead of three. Can we work with CTO, etc., without going out to Districts more than twice per year? Need to put on table for discussion. Districts find Town Halls are helpful.
April 9th, Friday - Next teleconference; then Friday, May 14th.
Brian - About the ITAC Indiana Meeting Minutes: He would like them summarized for sending out. Can add URL. Who was going to summarize? Brief synopsis needed, of what Districts might want to know. An SA summary would be different than for a database person. Summaries are helpful. Many changes? Probably not. Sandy can summarize to send out next week.
(Note: Katherine Lins sent an e-mail to ITAC members after this meeting asking them to please not send summaries of the Indiana meeting minutes until after 3/24/04, when everyone has had a chance to review them.)
Meeting Adjourned - 1:25 p.m.
AI Identifier |
Person(s) Assigned / Description of Action Item / Status of AI/Comment |
Mar2004.Telecon.1 |
Person(s) Assigned: Katherine Lins Issue: C&A training Description of Action Item: Katherine will inform Susan to have Richard check into this. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED -- 3 weeks |
Mar2004.Telecon.2 |
Person(s) Assigned: Katherine Lins Issue: C&A training Description of Action Item: Katherine will make sure Susan knows to have Richard "check in" with Garry. Ask him to look at the C&A team's process document coming out for review. Ask that he look at from Districts' perspective. Katherine will inform Susan to have Richard check into this. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED. This is to check whether the COOP is a table top exercise. |
Mar2004.Telecon.3 |
Person(s) Assigned: Marilyn Billone Issue: Highlight Pubs Warehouse on USGS Web Sites Description of Action Item: Marilyn will forward USGS Weekly Highlight (2/2-6/04) announcing the Pubs Warehouse to District Chiefs and ITAC. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED -- Marilyn sent e-mail to ITAC members on 3/15/04. |
Mar2004.Telecon.4 |
Person(s) Assigned: Marilyn Billone Issue: Alaska District logistics Description of Action Item: Marilyn will contact District Chief's secretary in Anchorage for hotel info, etc. ITAC members will need local phone number of hotel. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED -- Marilyn sent e-mail to ITAC with hotel information on 3/17/04. |
Mar2004.Telecon.5 |
Person(s) Assigned: Sandy Williamson Issue: Airfare information for Alaska District Meeting Description of Action Item: Sandy will send airfare information to ITAC members. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED -- Sandy sent e-mail on 3/14/04. |
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Kym Burns, ITAC Executive
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(703) 648-5609