[270] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Credit Union
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F. Lambert)
Sat Jun 3 07:36:44 2000
Message-Id: <10006031136.AA12739@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 00 07:28:17 EDT
From: "David F. Lambert" <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.Edu>
To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 02 Jun 2000 09:54:45 -0400
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 09:54:45 -0400 Lynne said:
>Dave,
>
>Thoughts while brushing my daughter's hair........ ;-)
>
>The credit union currently prints their statements to tape....tape is sent
>to w91 and loaded to VM and then printed.
>
>What kind of box are they running on?
>Is the box networked?
>Would they be open to changing the application slightly to stop "printing"
>to tape and print directly to ipm?
>What are the security concerns? Do they use a signature? Are they worried
>about information going over the net in the clear......? (Where is the box?
>e19, w91? would the data really be crossing routers?)
>
>How do we secure the PSF pieces on the AIX box so that only authorized
>print users can print the statements, use the logos etc.?
>
>Food for thought.......obviously not the highest priority item, but if we
>start asking questions now we could be in the right position to make the
>change in the fall.
>
>Lynne
>Lynne E. Durland
>Information Systems
>Database Services
>W91-109
>258-5857
>
>
> "Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open."
>
> --John Barrymore
>
Good thoughts, Lynne. MEB, could you please capture these future
action items in some organized way (many of the issues raised are
clearly not specific to the Credit Union printing). They will need
to be addressed in the future.
Lynne & Rocklyn, I spoke with Kimberly Shooter at the Credit Union
yesterday. She's the COO and acting CEO of the CU. Their server
is not on the net and no plans to connect it to the net for security
reasons. So, we'll still need some sort of offline media to get the
CU monthly statement file from their server into IPM. We might want
to look at a new tape format using the backup tape device they use
as well as our own. I'd prefer DLT7000 but Kimberly thinks they
use 8mm tape for backup. She suggested speaking directly with the
CU's CIO. His name slips my mind right now but you can find it
on their Web pages.
This isn't as high up on the priority list as a bunch of other stuff
but needs to be captured as future work when the time is right. Rocklyn,
please add to the WBS. It would be useful for you to review the
WBS & timeline anyway, and update it as needed.
-Dave
