The Governor has now begun a search for a CIO position which will be part of the Governor's office. The staff for the CIO will physically be located on the 5th floor of the State Office Building basically because there isn't a lot of room in the Capitol Building. The funding for Alan Carleson, Sue Martell and Vaughn Taylor will still be out of GOPB for the next year. Retention of Logs of Network Traffic Alan Carlsen said as a member of the Firewall committee there has been a recent issue regarding the requests from the Attorney General's office for computer access and security logs. The AG's office usually needs the logs for court purposes.
Some requests are for logs that are two years old.
Alan said there is no consistent policy among state agencies regarding the retention of logs on network traffic. There was discussion about the increase in monitoring the network traffic because some state employees are abusing the use of the Internet. After some discussion it was agreed that the Acceptable Use Policy is the State policy that deals with this issue. Each department is responsible for enforcing this policy in their agencies. Departments can develop policies for specific areas that would allow for exceptions.