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2020 LONI Summit


Event Details

  • Date: March 18, 2020 11:00 am – 19, 2020 4:30 pm
  • Venue: Cecil J Picard Center for Child Development & Lifelong Learning
  • Categories: Management Council, Working Groups

2020 LONI Summit Flyer

 

 

Tentative Agenda

Wednesday, March 18th
11:00 AM Registration / Lunch* / Sponsor Meet & Greet
12:00 PM Welcome & Opening Remarks
12:15 PM Open Floor Introductions
12:30 PM LONI Updates
Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI
Lance Neal, Assistant Director, LONI
Gary Mumphrey, Assistant Director, LONI
Preston Aydell, Systems Engineer, LONI

LONI staff will kick-off the summit with information pertaining to the working group missions, governance, and provide brief updates on the LONI projects:

      • New Quilt Contract
      • RHC Program
      • MANRS
      • fiber projects
      • LONI’s new Cloud service
      • many others
1:00 PM Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits
1:15 PM NTAG / NSWG Year in Review
Ben Blundell, Chief Network Architect, Associate Director of Network Services, ULL
Tracy Brown, Chief Technology Officer, NSULA
Sumit Jain, Chief Information Security Officer, LSU
Mohamad Qayoom, IT Network Security Consultant, LSUHSC-NO

The NTAG and NSWG co-chairs recap the work from this past year and begin setting the stage for the up-coming year.

1:30 PM Panel Discussion: Operational Security Metrics
Moderator: Mohamad Qayoom, IT Network Security Consultant, LSUHSC-NO
2:15 PM Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits
2:30 PM WiFi Deployment Strategies
LSU-S
NSULA
3:00 PM LONI’s Platform-as-a-Service
Gary Mumphrey, Assistant Director, LONI

Gary will recap the transition from Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), walk through the new service offerings, and field any questions from the audience.

3:30 PM Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits
3:45 PM Working Group Discussions
Discussion items:

  • Security resources pertaining to:
    • the Fusion Center
    • GOHSEP’s ESF-17
    • Governor’s Cybersecurity Taskforce
    • REN-ISAC
    • MS-ISAC
    • InfraGard
  • COVID-19 & other pandemic scenario support
  • Other topics TBD
4:45 PM Day 1 Wrap-up
Thursday, March 19th
8:30 AM Breakfast* / Sponsor Meet & Greet
9:00 AM Facilitated Discussions
Community Collective Resiliency – Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI
Community Emergency Response Team – Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI
LONI Security Incident Response Plan – Sumit Jain, Chief Information Security Officer, LSU
Community SOC – Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI
10:00 AM Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits
10:15 AM Facilitated Discussion: O365 – Tracy Brown, Chief Technology Officer, NSULA
10:45 AM Science DMZ Summary with DTN Design
Dr. Raju Gottumukkala, Ph.D., Director of Research, Informatics Research Institute; Site Director, NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics; Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, ULL
Ben Blundell, Chief Network Architect, Associate Director of Network Services, ULL

Brief overview of a typical Science DMZ infrastructure and the case for Data Transfer Nodes (DTN) on our campuses. A Data Transfer Node is a resource that can be used to transfer large data files between research sites. A few data transfer examples will be examined. The session will be concluded by a short case study examining UL’s Visual Analytics Sandbox architecture.

11:30 AM Lunch* / Networking / Sponsor Visits
12:00 PM Cyber Ambassadors
Mohamad Qayoom, IT Network Security Consultant, LSUHSC-NO

As the integration of CI in research continues, CI-Professionals find themselves tackling problems and consulting on projects that are increasingly complex and collaborative. In order to respond to these various requests, CI-Professionals need both the expertise to solve computational challenges and the professional skills to work effectively in teams with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and goals. This session provides professional skills training in communications, teamwork and leadership for CI-Professionals.

1:00 PM Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits
1:15 PM CAG20 for LCTCS/SOWELA
Dr. Jo Schexneider, Chief Information, Resources and Technology Officer, SOWELA
Josh Young, Supervisor – IT Network, SOWELA
Matt Williams, Supervisor – IT Systems, SOWELA

SOWELA Technical Community College has worked over the years to implement security measures.  Just over a year and a half ago, the Louisiana Community and Technical College System implemented a Cyber Security task force to address growing concerns.  The outcome of those meetings led to LCTCS adopting the Center for Internet Security (CIS), CAG 20 guidelines, rolling out the requirements quarterly.  Join us to find the LCTCS/SOWELA solution.

1:45 PM Email Security
Shawn Parr, System Administrator – Lead, NSULA
Alex Doskey, Email Team Lead, LSUHSC-NO

Shawn will share Northwestern’s experience with ProofPoint. Alex will review Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection policies (safe links, safe attachments, anti-impersonation) and mail flow rules.

2:15 PM Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits
2:30 PM New Co-chair Elections – Lance Neal, Assistant Director, LONI
2:35 PM Working Group Discussions
3:25 PM Closing Remarks – Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI
3:30 PM Adjourn

*Lunch will be provided for both days. Please contact Lance Neal at lance@lsu.edu if you have any special dietary restrictions and/or food allergies.

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