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Issue 7, September 2007 |
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The Alabama Geospatial Office (ALGO) is a new section of the Information Services Division (ISD) within the Alabama Department of Finance. Our goal is to develop initiatives and infrastructure that support, facilitate, and promote geospatial programs and technology for the State of Alabama. [more] |
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Active Directory is at the core of many organization's information systems. Users rely on their Outlook Global Address List (GAL) to provide them with information (telephone number, address, department, etc…) about other users and contacts within the State of Alabama. Directory Update is a "self-service" solution that allows a user to update their own information in the Active Directory. [more] |
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The Mainframe offers a number of methods to transfer Mainframe data to other platforms. In the past the most common way was using TCP/IP and the FTP protocol. The issue with this protocol is the data is transferred in the clear. This means that the data could be easily monitored on the network. If this data contains sensitive information and is going over the internet you could be exposing personal information to some criminal elements. [more] |
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Between May and July there were over 15 million internet emails received through the state domain. How many of those were delivered, blocked, and contained a virus? [more] |
