[ The message below from Jennings Aske, Chief Security Officer for Partners Health Care IS, details policy related to laptop encryption requirements. It contains links detailing the policy itself, sites where users can obtain Safeboot software for their PCs, and the Infosec Laptop Encryption help page.  A brief Powerpoint presentation on encryption can be found here]

Encryption clinic dates for PC laptop owners will be in the back room of the cafeteria:
Feb. 16 from 7 – 10:30 a.m.
Feb. 17 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

NOTE: Availability of Macintosh PGP Encryption software has been delayed until Feb 3.


Partners HealthCare and its hospitals are deploying encryption software to secure Partners Confidential Data, and to ensure compliance with information security laws and regulations. Below is an update on the encryption deployment at Partners.

[ Jan 20, 9:36 AM ]
The Exchange Server that houses our "large quota" accounts is having trouble sending and receiving. The Exchange team is aware of the problem and is working on a fix. More when we know more.

Full backups of all of our Networker clients are currently in progress. These have been running for the past several days and are mostly complete During this period, there are no incremental or daily backups. Full backups should be complete by the end of the weekend.

We are pleased to announce the following [bioinformatics] workshops.  To sign up visit this URL or just click on the Sign UP icon below the individual workshop.

https://www.countway.harvard.edu/classes#bioinfo

HMS  is organizing a 1-day workshop on GPU computing
for biomedical research.