Holiday Email Quarantine

Hi Frank,

This was sent out late this afternoon. Classic. Why not just have CIO work over the holiday weekend like real f'ing company would? Instead let's inconvenience everyone else at the Lab. Better yet, we will just have to send work e-mails over our home accounts. What a great idea - that should go over real well during January's audit.

Anonymous, please....



Anonymous,
I think you're forgetting - this is the holiday when turkeys need to go into hiding.
-Frank

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Subject: LANL-ALL2258: Holiday email quarantine
From: "Distributions" [distributions@lanl.gov]
Date: Tue, November 25, 2008 4:26 pm
To: LANL-ALL@lanl.gov
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To: LANL-ALL

Holiday email quarantine

The laboratory Chief Information Officer has directed changes in our network security policy over holidays. There is an increased threat from cyber attacks during these periods as adversaries expect their targets to be lightly staffed and therefore will not notice their attacks until it is too late.

All mail coming into the lab from the Internet will be quarantined for the holiday period. It will be released the morning of the first business day back to work. If you expect important programmatic email over the holidays, you have two options: add your correspondent(s) to your spam safelist, or periodically check your spam quarantine for those important messages to release them. For information on how to do this, see the email spam FAQ at http://network.lanl.gov/email/emailfirewall_faq.php.