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WiscCal will be unavailable beginning Saturday, July 26 at 9 a.m. until Sunday, July 27 at 3 p.m., when service will be restored. This scheduled outage is necessary to move the WiscCal service to new hardware and perform database maintenance. During this time, you will be unable to access your calendars online. If you need access to your calendar during this period, you will need to print a copy, work “offline” from a local saved copy of your calendar, or access from a copy stored on your PDA/Smartphone.

There are only two weeks remaining to register for the 2008 Lockdown Conference being held on Wednesday, July 23 at the Health Sciences Learning Center. Registration is filling quickly, but there are still spaces left. This one-day conference will feature a range of speakers and topics, including Web 2.0: Hacking the Brand, Enterprise Web Application Security and Governance, Unraveling the VirtSec Debacle, A Guide to Security Metrics, Security Tools, and Underground Economies. The registration fee is $100. To register, go to https://www.cio.wisc.edu/events/lockdown/.

DoIT will be performing a variety of important maintenance procedures on the campus infrastructure on Sunday, Jan. 6 and then again on Sunday, Jan 13. Campus should not plan on having access to the affected systems during their specific outage windows. (more…)

UW-Madison IT Policy Forum

• August 13, 2007
• 12PM-1PM
• Memorial Union

The purpose of the forum is to converse with UW-Madison faculty and
staff on IT policy and help ensure widespread engagement on IT policy
development.

To assist in planning, please RSVP to Gary De Clute,
gdeclute@doit.wisc.edu. Agenda topics include IT policy initiatives,
IT policy process, open discussion of IT policy topics.

Email:
ckrembs@cals.wisc.edu

UW-Madison Lockdown Conference

• August 9, 2007
• 7AM - 5PM
• Fluno Center
• Registration Fee: $130

This is the seventh year for this information security conference. It
is a great source for information on current trends and emerging
technologies. For more information or to register, go to:
www.doit.wisc.edu/lockdown

For more information contact:

Charlene Rieck Krembs ckrembs@cals.wisc.edu
(608) 262-6108

Faculty, researchers and technologists interested in E-Authentication, NIH, InCommon and inter-federation will be interested in a presentation, Digital Collaboration with NIH Systems Campus Program, offered Friday, July 20, from 10:00 am to noon in B1118 Biochemistry. (more…)

If you still carry a UW ID card that has your SSN on it, please replace it as soon as possible. New cards will be issued with a photo id number that does not contain this sensitive information. There is a campus commitment to review and remove SSNs from all computing systems as appropriate. The ID system is one of those areas under review. Carrying and displaying a card with your social security number exposes you to potential identity theft. (more…)

Campus systems are in the process of being patched for the new Daylight Savings Time which will begin this year on March 11, 2007. These patches may also require additional updates to your computers. (more…)

The 3rd round of emails to campus users with weak Netid passwords is scheduled to go out starting February 26. This is the last email users will receive encouraging them to change their NetID passwords. (more…)

Utah State University’s Center for High Performance Computing will hold its first annual Agricultural Computing Research and Education Symposium on March 26-27, 2007. All faculty, researchers, staff and students interested in high performance computing are invited to attend. (more…)