INTRODUCTION (Valentina) Our team had the pleasure of interviewing William Griffenberg but goes by Bill, who joined TAMUSA on January 2018. Prior to joining TAMUSA, he was the CIO at the Florence County for four years, where he had a successful track record of managing, fixing and implementing a better network system. He was in charge of doing an IT overhaul because the county network system had tremendous problems many related to network security. He earned his Master on Information Systems Management. This interview was performed on February 26th of 2018.
Due to security and the sensitivity of the information, Bill was limited in the information that they were able to share regarding their information and data center infrastructure. Bill …show more content…
Every part is very important and none of those can be taking out and be successful; they all require each other. The one from TAMUSA would be describe in the next few paragraphs.
There are different providers some of them are: Spectrum, AT&T, TTVM, Sprint, etc. Circuits coming in from vendors which is DMARC – point of demarcation which vendors transfer the transmissions from their equipment to the school equipment. It is the interface between customer-premises equipment and network service provider equipment. This is basically called co routers - layer 3 switching than drop it to layer 2 to internal networks. After all that it comes the rest which is firewalls, spam filters, VLAN, Active directory to log on, IP addresses which are assigned to different things, servers, applications servers, database servers and DMC. DMC makes that anybody coming from outside is required to have the proper credentials if they want to access the databases. Without them they can access the applications but not the databases; this allows to keep the data safe. From there they have the buildings, then switches in all the buildings and floors “distributions switches”, then go to all the wires on the building in or wireless, then to the AP and from there it projects a Wi-Fi signal to a designated