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NEXT MEETING TBD

Meeting Details:
6:00pm social hour and 6:30pm meeting start.
Hilton Garden Inn - 100 High Street, Portsmouth, NH, 03801
     Directly across from the parking garage
     The Hilton has a full bar and kitchen open until 10pm

Last Meeting: July 15, 2010

Our July meeting will follow the security management theme.  We have two relevant topics lined up.

First, the local SE from Splunk will be on-hand for a live instructional walkthrough of log management and search capabilities that Splunk offers.

Second, we'll have a presentation from Cyber-Ark software on identity management and how to properly secure privileged accounts.

Door prizes sponsored by Microsoft/GITCA and Cyber-Ark Software

Click the following links to download the presentation slides from: SEA-TUG, Splunk, Cyber-Ark.


MAY 26th - 6:30pm

1) Security tools and notes from the field - Jack Daniel
2) Hyper-V R2, DPM 2010, and the benefits of using them together - Scott Pratt

First, Jack Daniel (Community Development Manager for Astaro) will be giving us a security briefing including tools you can't live without and a general update from the world of security.  Jack's a very dynamic speaker with lots of great knowledge to share.  You *will* come away from his presentation with things that will make your job better and more interesting.  Click here for Jack's Slide deck.

Second, Scott Pratt will give us an update on Hyper-V R2, DPM 2010 and why these products work so well together.  Scott is a wealth of knowledge on all things Microsoft.

For the intro slide deck, including news and links to tools - click here.


Thursday April 1, 2010
Topic: Video Conferencing and Unified Communications

Click here for the intro slide deck: 2010-april1-seatug.ppt
Click here for the Polycom slide deck: 2010-april1-polycom.ppt

For anyone interested, Jefff from Polycom has invited us down to the Polycom demo center for a much more interactive and hands-on demo.  If there's enought interesd I'll schedule a group field trip.  Send an email and let me know if you'd like to attend.

Our guest speaker, Jeff Giampa from Polycom had a good discussion, and covered the following topics (and more!):

* State of the industry and market trends
* Cost justification by elimination of travel expenses
* Current real-world capabilities
* Bandwidth, bandwidth, and more bandwidth
* Firewall and network management to support video
* Deployment methodologies
* Polycom vs. Cisco Tele-presence
* Protocols and standards
* The others: Skype, Microsoft OCS, etc.

This meeting is not focused on Polycom products but the underlying technologies involved with deploying video and collaboration tools on your network.  There will be some discussion around specific Polycom products and technologies as well as live demo units at the meeting.


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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Contact Information

PO Box 1172, Portsmouth, NH 03802 - (603) 373-8600
General Information: caretaker@sea-tug.com

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