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February 2010 - Topic and Date TBD

The February meeting will be announced shortly.  Keep an eye on this site or joing the mailing list for announcements.


January 21, 2010 - NAC and Network Security (Bradford Networks)

Click here for the slide deck from the meeting.

Topic: Network Access Control and your Network Security Strategy 

How safe is your network?  How easy is it to get invited in to your office, plug a laptop in to any Ethernet jack, get an IP Address and launch an attack?  Think that's far-fetched?  Ask Hannaford Brothers, or Dave & Buster’s.  On a modern day network, you need to protect yourself from the outside and know about every machine and every user on the inside.

Network Access Control (NAC) can help keep your network secure by only allowing authorized systems to connect.  It can do this through a variety of tactics.  Come to this month's meeting to learn about techniques to keep your network safe, and keep your company’s name out of the front page news.

John Sheedy, our guest speaker from Bradford Networks, will give an overview of access control solutions and approaches, and will talk about the emergence of adaptive network security to dynamically address today’s challenging threat environment.   


December 1, 2009 Meeting - Great Turnout, Good discussions

Due to the hectic holiday calendar, we combines our November and December meetings on December 1st.

Topic: Data Classification and Audit Reporting:  What data classification is and why you need to care.
Click here for the Powerpoint slides from tonight's meeting.

How do you report file access to your auditors?
Do you know where your Confidential, PII, PCI, HIPAA data is located?
Do you know what your sensitive data is?
    What users and groups have access to sensitive data?
    What users and groups are accessing sensitive data?
    Where is sensitive data most at risk?
    Which of your sensitive data is not being used and can be archived or simply deleted?

Over 20 local IT professionals joined in the discussion. 
Thank you to Varonis for their presentation and generous support of appetizers. 
Thanks also go to the Hilton Garden Inn for the facility.

Watch for our next meeting in early January where we'll be talking about NAC and other must-have security features in your environment.


About SEA-TUG

SEA-TUG is a technical user group (ie: for System Admins, not home users) meeting once a month on topics relating to IT Infrastructure, Hardware, Software, Security, Patches, Deployment, etc. We are a registered GITCA user group.  There is no cost to attend Sea-Tug meetings.

We follow the popular User-Group format: a technical presentation followed by a technical/sales presentation (when appropriate).  We're similar to some of the more successful user groups such as the Boston Area Windows Server User Group, only without the two-hour drive back and forth.  

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