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As you probably know, the Internet is a hostile place.  Worms, viruses, bots, and hackers are a fact of life.  At LBNL, we face all the threats that any business or home user faces, but there are some unique characteristics of our environment you should know about:

Our network is very open.

To ensure that the members of our community can collaborate effectively, whenever and however they need to, we operate a very open network.  This means you must take special care to ensure your system is protected.

Our systems are interconnected.

The nature of scientific collaboration virtually ensures that our systems are connected in numerous trust relationships with those of other institutions. This is important to our work, but also means that we are exposed to vulnerabilities from many institutions, and that our vulnerabilities, in turn, expose our collaborators.

Attackers target us.

Both because of our unique computing resources, and simply because we are a government institution, many attackers target LBNL systems.  In particular, smart attackers who have time and resources have been known to target our systems.

We are held to high standards.

As a Department of Energy National Laboratory we are held to a high standard of cyber security performance.  It is critically important that we perform well, so that we can maintain the open computing environment we believe is central to our mission. We are all in this together.

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