{"id":4954,"date":"2024-04-12T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T22:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2024-04-12T16:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:05:03","slug":"pugetsound-network-emergency-firewall-reboot-friday-april-12-500-p-m-530-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/2024\/04\/12\/pugetsound-network-emergency-firewall-reboot-friday-april-12-500-p-m-530-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"{PUGETSOUND NETWORK}: Emergency Firewall Reboot, Friday April 12, 5:00 p.m. &#8211; 5:30 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"gmail_signature\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div name=\"divtagdefaultwrapper\"><span id=\"gmail-docs-internal-guid-8e9863d7-7fff-71bb-a4ee-f72ce8176cbb\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left:0pt\" align=\"left\">\n<table style=\"border:none;border-collapse:collapse\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"592\"><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height:98.25pt\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align:top;background-color:rgb(102,0,0);padding:5pt;overflow:hidden\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.9872;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\"><span style=\"border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:276px;height:105px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This logo identifies the Technology Services department within the University of Puget Sound\" title=\"University of Puget Sound Technology Services Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/z0rSjnDzhEoSD9q4UMqfZyRNZyTqqnJz1Eamdp5sz82krpxNCZnRHzePJH_F7Cmr86bXR391lyH5JIcQuKK0IBt-8fzSV00nNFRiyu4rjImTS1A4PW_B2lnlY6SELIv5xJsUvuf37LWofjwPIOvT9Ys\" width=\"276\" height=\"105\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:412.5pt\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Dear members of the Puget Sound community,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Technology Services (TS) has planned the following maintenance activities. Details on the maintenance being performed are available below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">SYSTEMS IMPACTED:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Inbound and outbound internet access\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">GlobalProtect VPN\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Blue emergency towers\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Systems requiring Internet connectivity on the Puget Sound campus, such as Zoom phones<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">DATE OF IMPACT:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Friday, April 12, 2024 | 5:00 p.m. &#8211; 5:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">REASON FOR MAINTENANCE:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">TS will be rebooting our network security appliances (firewalls) to apply a mitigation for a critical severity vulnerability affecting GlobalProtect.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">The vendor states that fixes for this critical vulnerability are in development and are expected to be released by April 14, 2024. TS does not know the exact timing of when this will be made available.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Impacted systems will be intermittently unavailable for short durations of time (~1-5 minutes) during the maintenance window.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Prior to April 15, TS expects to perform a firmware update as soon as possible pending the vendor\u2019s release of a new version to fix the vulnerability. This work will be done without additional communication and will only take place between the hours of 12 a.m. and 6 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\" role=\"presentation\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Security Services will remain reachable at 253-879-3311 during this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">For more information on Technology Services&#39; Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/technology-services\/help-support\/service-announcements\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline\">Service Announcements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\"> page on the Puget Sound website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work. If you have any questions or concerns, please don&#39;t hesitate to contact the TS Service Desk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:94.5pt\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align:top;background-color:rgb(102,0,0);padding:5pt;overflow:hidden\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(250,250,250);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">TS Service Desk<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(250,250,250);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Walk-In Support: Tech Center in Collins Library<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(250,250,250);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Phone Support: (253) 879-8585<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(250,250,250);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Online Help:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/osd\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(250,250,250);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline\">https:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/osd<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(250,250,250);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\"> (Logon Required)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(250,250,250);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline\">Email Support: <\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline\"><a href=\"mailto:servicedesk@pugetsound.edu\"><a href=\"mailto:servicedesk@pugetsound.edu\" >servicedesk@pugetsound.edu<\/a><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear members of the Puget Sound community, Technology Services (TS) has planned the following maintenance activities. Details on the maintenance being performed are available below: SYSTEMS IMPACTED:\u00a0 Inbound and outbound internet access\u00a0 GlobalProtect VPN\u00a0 Blue emergency towers\u00a0 Systems requiring Internet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/2024\/04\/12\/pugetsound-network-emergency-firewall-reboot-friday-april-12-500-p-m-530-p-m\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/tsmaintenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}