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Industrial Communications & Technology
by prgvea
Succession planning was a huge accomplishment for the Industrial IT group in 2022. Two full-time and one part-time employees were hired which allowed work to begin on network upgrade/replacement projects that required additional resources.
Network bandwidth was upgraded from 1GB/s to 10GB/s from Illinois Street campus to the off-campus backup located at 901 Bidwill (BESS warm storage) to support increased data backup needs.
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A lot of time and effort was spent improving system and network monitoring. With the assistance of the rest of the IT team, much time was spent working on the transition to NISC (special thanks to Steve Brown for all of his work in this area).
A monitoring software suite for GVEA’s control systems was selected and sensors were installed as they arrived.
Cyber Security
□ All security awareness training for 2022 was completed by 100% of employees that required it.
□ A huge thank you to admin assistants and supervisors that assisted in getting all of these scheduled and completed.
□ Payment Card Industry Compliance was validated with KeyBank for all of 2022 and through Q2 of 2023.
□ Monthly security campaigns continued through the year. Monthly reports were sent to the EMT and supervisors with phish-prone counts and security awareness tip guides in lieu of a monthly newsletter.
□ We did not have a single month with a repeat clicker from the previous month.
□ All Oracle licensing and support was reviewed, renewed for the needed time, and confirmed to be completed properly by Oracle for 2022.
□ GVEA performed constant scans externally and had partner entities do the same to detect and address any vulnerabilities.
□ Provided a Cyber Security presentation to the board and continued to work on and build upon all items covered.
□ Worked with cyber insurance carrier’s Cyber Team and partner entities to ensure that our scans did not show vulnerabilities which could jeopardize our ability to obtain cyber insurance at renewal.
□ GVEA suffered no reportable Cyber Incidents and worked closely with Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency, and Department of Energy to ensure that we have the proper procedures in place in the event of a breach.
□ There were ample Phish Alert reports by employees in 2022, 3,115 reports through November, compared to 3,950 reports in 2021, 2,039 reports in 2020, and just 605 in 2019.
