31 Oct 06 New Firewall Installation

As part of our ongoing program to improve network security and uptime, we will be installing a new firewall soon, possibly later this week. We will in fact be installing two new firewalls, in order to provide fail-over redundancy. The new firewall was already planned for this fiscal year, but has been moved up on the recommendation of our security consultants.

While we do not expect any interruptions to our services, this installation will require firewall rule changes recommended by our security consultants that will affect all network communications. We will schedule this installation for early morning or over a weekend to minimize any potential disruption. We will keep you updated via email and the ITTS Update blog (http://blogs.ala.org/ittsupdate.php) as events warrant.