BLC - Clients

Public Works and Government Services Canada ( PWGSC )

BLC provided the services of an Internet / Intranet Site Specialist to work on release of Electronic Purchasing. Among the tasks involved were enhancements to Implement Basic Workflow, changes to the GUI for E-Purchasing screens, designing of documents, modification of programs and documentation. Among the many skills needed to carry out this project were: Cold Fusion, Oracle (DB), Sybase, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, UNIX, Browsers, and HTML Authoring.

Also at PWGSC, BLC provided IT services for the maintenance of web sites. The work involved the conversion and the updating of eighteen (18) internet/ intranet web sites to new templates using style sheets and matching the French to the English. The sites required the use of JavaScript, SSI, Perl, Cold Fusion, Fireworks, and SQL to retrieve and store information to MS Access databases. Unix and NT web servers were used.

January 21 , 2004 - Brad Lake Consulting Inc. (BLC) announced the signing of a contract with PWGSC to provide Consulting Services to execute a vital technical security assessment of PWGSC's mainframe systems.

PWGSC, a large Canadian Federal Government Department has been operating a mainframe environment for many years. In recent years, new technology has provided mainframe clients with options as to how they would like to access mainframe data. While system designers wrestle with new technologies and how to securely implement them, unanswered questions have arisen on the security profile of existing mainframes.

Consequently, PWGSC saw the need for an assessment of existing mainframe system configurations, platforms, security services such as IBM RACF, CA-Top Secret and CA-ACF2, along with an evaluation of operational LPAR isolation integrity.

Opening a mainframe to the Internet presents new, uncharted challenges and therefore a key component of this critical security assessment will be a review and appraisal of the impact of recent technologies such as native Internet Protocol (IP) and IBM WebSphere.