East Bay Cisco Users Group

Security: PKI and Secure Messaging/ Encryption

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Drew Gansmiller, Senior IT Security and Networking instructor with emphasis on Cisco Security

• PKI and Secure Messaging

• RSA and Asymmetric encryption

• RSA theory and practical application
  
  The central technique that allows secure messaging to work is PKI, and PKI commonly depends on RSA Asymmetric encryption. Everyone has read the magic sentence “whatever you encrypt with one key can only be decrypted with the other”, but since that makes no sense in the real world many IT professionals have a weak understanding of why PKI works. If you don’t understand why PKI works, then everything that depends on PKI is built on an understanding of mush, and god help you if you actually have to design or troubleshoot a PKI dependent issue.
  
  Our purpose in <90 minutes is to review Asymmetric encryption, demo it’s properties in a simplified representation, and then see that the mathematical basis of RSA asymmetric encryption relies only on 7th grade algebra. In other words, the goal is to take a critical and familiar idea that is mushy and poorly understood and make it real and tangible.
  
  Thank you,
  Drew
  
  

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• T-Shirts from time to time
• Free Q&A and advice served by your peers...!

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems offices in Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Drive, 4th Floor
Pleasanton, CA 94588

925-997-6436 cell

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

A long time Cisco UCS and Data Center champion, Scott Afshar will give us an update on all things UCS.

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Scott Afshar, Data Center Specialist, CCIE, Cisco Systems.

• Come hear the latest on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). Find out how and why there are over 40 world records for computing speed held now by Cisco. How the UCS Manager application changes the game for provisioning applications. The immense amount of memory you can put on each server/blade.
  
  Scott will cover updates in the Nexus switching system as well and all the advancements in 10GE and Datacenter Ethernet. We hope to see you there. This will be an interesting topic. Please as always, forward this on to a friend or colleague and have them register at www.ebcug.org/register.
  
  Thank you,
  Doug
  
  East Bay Cisco Users Group
  drenner@ ebcug.org

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• T-Shirts from time to time
• Free Advice served by many!

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems offices in Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Drive, 4th Floor
Pleasanton, CA 94588

925-997-6436 cell

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

Freestyle configurations at Peak IP Solutions Office

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Douglas Renner / David Bigge / Jack Bowden.

• Since we dont have a formal speaker this time around, we will do a lab exercise we have done in the past that many have enjoyed each time. We will use a couple of voice enabled 2811 Routers and link them together via back to back T1's. We will then set up some switches and get connectivity with routing protocols. After that we will voice enable the solution old school style and get a couple of analog phones ringing. Once that is complete, we will blow up the configuration into a CallManager Express VoIP solution. We should be able to get through it all. If you are interested, please RSVP to drenner@ebcug.org.
  
  We hope to see you there. This will be hands on fun! If you know of others who may be interested in the group, please, as always, forward this on to a friend or colleague and have them register at www.ebcug.org/register.
  
  Thank you,
  Doug
  
  East Bay Cisco Users Group
  drenner@ ebcug.org

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• T-Shirts from time to time
• Free Advice served by many!

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.
  

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Peak IP Solutions offices in Pleasanton, CA

4683 Chabot Drive, Suite 380
Pleasanton, CA 94588

925-997-6436 cell

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

Silver Peak WAN Accelleration. Why Doing Acceleration at the Network layer matters.

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Chris Helfer and Harsha Abeywickrema.

• The Silver Peak team will deliver a very good technical presentation on why Accelleration at the network layer matters. They have come from nowhere in the marketplace to now being recognized as having “The best current product offering” by Forester and a leading Visionary by Gartner. They will discuss how Silver Peak overcomes WAN latency, corrects for packet loss, corrects for out of order packets, and deduplicates WAN traffic at the IP layer. Their Solution has been selected by some of the most demanding IT organizations in the bay area including Apple, Google, Intuit, Autodesk, Facebook, VMware and many others. You are invited to learn more about this innovative network solution at our meeting
  
  We hope to see you there. This will be an interesting topic. Please as always, forward this on to a friend or colleague and have them register at www.ebcug.org/register.
  
  Thank you,
  Doug
  
  East Bay Cisco Users Group
  drenner@ ebcug.org

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• T-Shirts from time to time
• Free Advice served by many!

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.
  

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Peak IP Solutions offices in Pleasanton, CA

4683 Chabot Drive, Suite 380
Pleasanton, CA 94588

925-997-6436 cell

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

Security Risks in Virtualized Environments.

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Dr. Eugene Schultz, SANS Instructor, Security Expert, International Speaker on Security.

• Security Expert Dr. Eugene Schultz will speak on issues relating to security in virtualized environments.

  Dr. Eugene Schultz is a recognized expert in network security. Dr. Schultz is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). He has extensive experience in UNIX, LAN, and database security, and consults for both private industry and the U.S. government. He has provided expert testimony before committees within the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives on various security-related issues, and served as an expert witness in legal cases. Eugene Schultz testified before the U.S. Senate about intrusions into U.S. military computers during Operation Desert Storm, and he subsequently wrote a highly regarded analysis of this topic.

  You can read Dr. Schultz's Blog at this link; http://blog.emagined.com/gschultz

  He is a principal at Emagined Security. Emagined Security Consulting promises to protect, anticipate and prepare for the challenges we face on a daily basis. Your organization can depend on us to anticipate, protect, react, and deliver security solutions tailored to meet your business needs and consulting requirements. We will react to threats in real time as well as deliver and continually provide the highest quality services and deliverables. Emagined Security Consulting will bring the optimal balance of people, process and cost effective technology solutions, so you can rely on us to protect your assets as well as your image.
  
  We hope to see you there. This will be an interesting topic. Please as always, forward this on to a friend or colleague and have them register at www.ebcug.org/register.
  
  Thank you,
  Doug

• East Bay Cisco Users Group
  drenner@ ebcug.org

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• T-Shirts from time to time
• Free Advice served by many!

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.
  

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

We will hold this meeting at Cisco Systems offices in Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Drive, 4th Floor
Pleasanton, CA 94588

925-997-6436 cell

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

IPv6. Overview and Essentials Revisited

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Owen DeLong
IPv6 Evangelist and Consultant
Hurricane Electric

• Bio:
  Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist for Hurricane Electric, the leading IPv6 ready Internet Service Provider. He’s also an elected member of the ARIN Advisory Council and a senior backbone engineer with more than 25 years of industry experience. In his spare time, he’s a commercial pilot and teaches SCUBA diving and CPR/First Aid courses. Owen can be reached at owen at delong dot com.

• IPv6 Overview and Essentials for the Systems Administrator

  Owen will discuss the basics of IPv6, the current state of IPv4, the rapid reduction in IPv4 address space and what it means to you. He will also cover IPv6 Addressing methods including SLAAC, DHCP, Static and Privacy issues. Did you know all Windows 7, Vista, and 2008 Servers are running v6 on your network and tunneling with Teredo? Also covered will be Linux addressing specifics and IPv6 configuration without a native v6 backbone available to you. For more information you can visit www.tunnelbroker.net or www.he.net. See you there!
  

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• T-Shirts from time to time
• Free Advice served by many!

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

InfoBLOX IPAM Infrastructure. What is it? Why is it important? How it works. What services it provides.

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Chad Scott, Network Engineering, InfoBLOX

Bio:
Chad Scott has 10+ years experience in Internet technologies. His most recent employers include Lucent Technologies, IronPort, VMware. He now works with Infoblox as a Solutions Architect, devloping fault-tolerant, robust solutions for customers all over Northern California, Nevada, and Hawaii.

Topic of discussion:

IPAM Infrastructure.

Infoblox solutions reduce network expense and increase network availability and flexibility by automating key components of network infrastructure, including IP address management (IPAM), DNS and DHCP. The result is a significant decrease in errors and the sheer amount of tasks required to keep networks available, flexible and secure.

Read more: http://www.infoblox.com/

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• We will have an Ipod NANO to give away this month!
• Cisco Press and Microsoft Books - we have a some good ones this time!
• General Swag

Dinner to be served...

• Looks like Chevy's is on the Menu this month!
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

Metro Ethernet Service Provider Network Architecture

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Michael Roth, Sr. Network Engineer, tw Telecom

Bio:
Michael brings more than 25 years of networking and design experience to his position as Sr. Network Engineer. During his career, he has held various positions focusing on service provider and enterprise network infrastructure implementations; customer support; and business development.

Topic of discussion:

This will be a discussion of Metro Ethernet, or essentially what happens when you start using what has traditionally been a LAN technology in the WAN; how it changes design, engineering and operations

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books - we have a bunch this time!
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

Netformx Network Design, Discovery, proposal and Documentation tools

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Topic (s) : Netformx Network Discovery and Design Tools

Bio:

Jake Macasaet in a manager for Netformx, the only company to automate and provide a complete end-to-end solution to network assessment, designing, quoting, and proposal generation. In his spare time, he likes to take vacations and go fishing. He also volunteers to do youth ministry. Jake can be reached at jakem@netformx.com

Topic of discussion:

Jake will discuss the basics of DesignXpert and how to accelerate the network design and discovery process, monitor changes to the environment, how to use the tool as a var for quote generation, and how to increase productivity levels. He will also discuss how transforming your workflow will improve profitability as a company.

find out more about this comprehensive tool at www.netformx.com

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• T-Shirts from time to time
• Free Advice served by many!

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

IPv6. Overview and Essentials

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Owen DeLong
IPv6 Evangelist and Consultant
Hurricane Electric

• Bio:
  Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist for Hurricane Electric, the leading IPv6 ready Internet Service Provider. He’s also an elected member of the ARIN Advisory Council and a senior backbone engineer with more than 25 years of industry experience. In his spare time, he’s a commercial pilot and teaches SCUBA diving and CPR/First Aid courses. Owen can be reached at owen at delong dot com.

• IPv6 Overview and Essentials for the Systems Administrator

  Owen will discuss the basics of IPv6, the current state of IPv4, the rapid reduction in IPv4 address space and what it means to you. He will also cover IPv6 Addressing methods including SLAAC, DHCP, Static and Privacy issues. Did you know all Windows 7, Vista, and 2008 Servers are running v6 on your network and tunneling with Teredo? Also covered will be Linux addressing specifics and IPv6 configuration without a native v6 backbone available to you. For more information you can visit www.tunnelbroker.net or www.he.net. See you there!
  

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• T-Shirts from time to time
• Free Advice served by many!

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's or New York Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

Storage 101/201 Overview

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Tim Plaud
Principal Storage Architect
Compellent Technologies

• Tim Plaud is considered an expert in the storage field. He has over 15 years of experience in storage specific environments. He currently works as a Principal Storage Architect for Compellent Technologies designing large storage environments. He has experience with all the major vendors and brings an enormous amount of knowledge to his customers and audiences.

• Storage 101/201 Overview

  Description:  This will be a storage fundamentals discussion (DAN vs NAS vs SAN, targets, initiators, iSCSI, FC, Software vs Hardware initiator, iSCSI Network Impact, iSCSI best practices, SAS vs FC vs SATA, etc.  Also some Compellent patents and unique features.  Think of this as a Storage 101/201 discussion.

  Bring your inquisitive mind and learn about storage in general and what Compellent brings to the table that is unique.

  
  

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

IPv6. What you need to know!

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Douglas Spindler
Independent Tecnology Consultant
Microsoft Certified Trainer

• Douglas Spindler has been an independent technology advisor 25 years in the San Francisco Bay Area.  A native of Oakland and a UC Berkeley grad, Doug has served as IT department head or consultant at many Bay Area companies, including Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where he was in charge of server deployment and security.

• IPv6 Overview and Implementation

  Doug will be presenting on IPv6 in Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. He will cover the basics for IPv6 and also lead a discussion on potential issues. Doug has been involved in testing the IPv6 Stacks for Microsoft operating systems interacting with tunnel brokers via Cisco routing platforms. He will also cover some of the new technologies that rely on IPv6 in the new Microsoft products being released. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2 Better Together topics including Direct Access. Did you know that all Vista, Windows7, Server 2008, and most linux operating systems are happily communicating via tunnels to the internet?
  

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

BakBone Software

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

Matt Law
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
BakBone Software

• Matt Law’s career spans software and hardware product marketing and product management. Currently, as product marketing manager for real-time data protection at BakBone Software, he focuses on storage related data protection solutions. Prior to BakBone, he held positions at Tech Data Corporation, Access Graphics, Silicon Graphics, Overland Storage and others.  Matt will be accompanied by our Senior Systems Engineer, Paul Smith and by Gary Parker, Product Marketing Manager for NetVault: Backup.

• BakBone Solution

  The presentation will lead with NetVault: FASTRecover, a disk-based, real-time data protection that elimi­nates backup windows for Exchange, SQL Server and Windows File Servers.  As you will see in the demonstration, the Virtual On-Demand Recovery component makes these applications and data available for use in as little as 30-seconds. Users can access the recovered Exchange, SQL Server or Windows file system data as soon as a brief recovery setup phase has been completed, without waiting for the full recovery to complete. For example, Exchange databases can be mounted before the recovery is complete, allowing users to send and receive email.  NetVault: FASTRecover integrates with traditional backup applications including NetVault: Backup, so we will conclude with Gary giving an overview of NetVault: Backup.

• http://www.bakbone.com
  

Giveaways and Raffle... Bring your business card to enter.

• We will have five $25 gas gift cards and will have a drawing of people’s business cards (or handwritten note with name).  
• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group

Wireshark 201 Packet Analysis Instruction
Sharkfest Update from Stanford

Speakers (s)

About the Speaker:

John Gonder
Sr. Information Systems Professor
Las Positas College
Cisco Networking Academy
Computer Networking Technologies

Wireshark 201.

• Manage and troubleshoot TCP/IP environments. Know how to use the significant bits and bytes in the protocol headers to assist in troubleshooting. Analyze the operations of the TCP layer and look for solutions. Understand the functions of important upper-layer protocols to analyze trace files for erroneous conditions and solve them.
• Case Studies from the recent Sharkfest at Stanford University
• Wireshark and Cisco Swag to give away
• Learn from a serious packet guru!
  

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

Please forward to a friend or colleague and invite further participation in the group.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

East Bay Cisco Users Group Security Series

Speakers (s)

About Nathan:

Nathan Kwong
West Coast Systems Engineer for Commercial Accounts, IronPort business unit

Nathan has been in the IT arena for over 11 years at high end companies with very large networks.

• Years at position with Cisco/IronPort:  2 years

• Previous position:  Lead IT Systems Engineer at Gap Inc. for 9 years

• Tech Experience:  IronPort Email and Web Appliances, Windows server administration, Active Directory, IBM WebSphere, Linux administration, etc.

IronPort Web and Email Security Update...

This will be a very technical and hands on presentation. We will spend considerable time actually configuring and observing both the Web and Email Security Appliances. We will cover the IronPort web reputation services and what they do and then get right into the appliances.

• Email Security Appliances

  Cisco IronPort email security appliances are the most sophisticated systems available today. In production at eight of the ten largest ISPs and more than 40 percent of the world's largest enterprises, these systems have a demonstrated record of unparalleled security and reliability. The same code base that powers our most sophisticated customers is available in all of the Cisco IronPort email security appliances – enabling protection for companies of all sizes. More.

  Email Security Services

  Cisco IronPort Email Security services are a highlight of Cisco innovation, leadership and execution. Building on industry-leading IronPort email security technology, these services help organizations vigilantly defend their communications lifeline against spam, viruses, phishing and a wide variety of other threats. Depending upon business needs, customers can choose one of many deployment options. Regardless of the deployment model, customers get the benefits of hardware capacity assurance, predictable budgetary planning and simplified management. More.

  Web Security Appliances

  The Cisco IronPort S-Series is the industry's fastest web security appliance. These appliances combine a high-performance security platform with exclusive Web Reputation technology and the breakthrough Dynamic Vectoring and Streaming (DVS) engine, a unique scanning method that enables signature-based spyware filtering. Robust management and reporting tools deliver ease of administration and complete visibility into threat-related activity. More.

  Security Management Appliances

  The Cisco IronPort M-Series security management appliance complements Cisco IronPort email and web security appliances. By ensuring top performance for all of your application security gateways, the Cisco IronPort M-Series provides one location for you to manage, store and monitor all corporate policy settings and audit information. Designed and built as a flexible management tool to centralize and consolidate policy and runtime data, it gives administrators a single interface from which to manage all of their application-layer security systems. More.

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - We need your input... Would you like to see Security Management Products or Move on to a voice update series? Please let us know.

East Bay Cisco Users Group Security Series

Speakers (s)

About Tom:

Tom Montgomery
Consulting Systems Engineer, Security Specialist, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Tom has been with Cisco 10 years, with 8 years focused on security.

• CCIE in R/S
• CISSP
• CCSP
• 20 years in the industry 5 with State and 15 in private sector.

Cisco ASA and Perimiter Security Update...

The Cisco® ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance is a
modular platform that provides the next generation of security
and VPN services for environments ranging from small offices/
home offices and small and medium-sized businesses to large
enterprises. The Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers enterprises
a comprehensive portfolio of services that are customized
through product editions tailored for firewall, intrusion
prevention (IPS), content security, and VPN.

• State of the Firewall in todays networks
• New Advancements in Security at Cisco
• Demonstration of ASDM GUI configuration tool. Note: this is now the recommended way to configure Cisco Firewalls

• More about ASDM Here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6121/index.html or http://www.cisco.com/go/asdm
• Cisco ASDM helps you manage network and application security more effectively while improving operational efficiency through the following key features:
  • Rapid Configuration: Features such as in-line and drag-and-drop policy editing, auto complete, configuration wizards, appliance software upgrades, and online help enable trouble-free initial configuration and policy change without issuing complex commands or worrying about syntax errors.
  • Powerful Diagnostics: Features such as Packet Tracer, log-policy correlation, packet capture, regular expression tester, and embedded log reference reduce administrative overhead and increase operational efficiency.
  • Real-Time Monitoring: Features such as device, firewall, content security, and IPS dashboards; real-time graphing; and tabulated metrics enable rapid response to security incidents and trend analysis.
  • Management Flexibility: A lightweight and secure design enables remote management of multiple security appliances while supporting a wide variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server, and MacOS X.
  
  

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Cisco IronPort email Security- Stay tuned.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

Cisco Security Update

Speakers (s)

About Phil:

Phil Lee
Systems Engineer, Security Specialist, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Phil has over 15 years as a Network Integration Engineer and over 4 years at Cisco as an SE. He is a CCIE and very deep into the security field. He will give us an overview of how do design and construct an Intrusion Detection and Prevention system in the network.

Cisco Security Update...

Safeguard Your Network and Prevent Intrusion

Business networks of all sizes now face increasingly sophisticated attacks that can impede productivity, obstruct access to applications and resources, and cause significant communications disruption. And because of compliance regulations and consumer privacy laws, business priorities now include minimizing legal liability, protecting brand reputation, and safeguarding intellectual property. Some items that will be covered are;

• How do detect threats to intellectual property and customer data, with modular inspection throughout the network stack
• Stop sophisticated attackers by detecting behavioral anomalies, evasion, and attacks against vulnerabilities
• Prevent threats with confidence using the industry's most comprehensive set of threat prevention actions
• Focus response with dynamic threat ratings and detailed logging
• Provide protection from the latest threats and vulnerabilities
• Design your IPS for your network
• Deploy IPS to fit your policy, whether you deploy inline, promiscuous, both at the same time, or even inline-on-a-stick
• Minimize the cost and complexity of protection, using your current virtual LAN configuration, and industry-leading virtualization capabilities

ForMore information...
Cisco IDS/IPS Product Overview

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Cisco IronPort email Security- Stay tuned.

How WebEx is leading the charge with technologies for a flat world.

Speakers (s)

About Ben:

Arnie Lopez
Senior Manager, Technical Sales Operations for WebEx Technology Group at Cisco

Arnie has over 15 years working in high technology, the last 8 at Cisco in various technical sales roles. He currently holds certifications of CCIE and CISSP and is a veteran and supporter of our group.

Kelley Brown
Senior Manager, WebEx Product Specialists

WebEx and the software as a Services model is changing the landscape of how we live and do business. The world is Flat and these technologies help all of us become more competitive within it. Both from a technical Data Center design and scope and from a collaborative view, WebEx and SaaS is changing our world in one way or another.

Arnie will discuss Cisco's overall collaboration strategy including WebEx and how it integrates into UC and Video solutions on-prem, off-prem and on-demand.

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Cisco IronPort email Security- Stay tuned.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:30PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

How the NetQoS Performance Center manages the network for application performance on the LAN/WAN and in the Data Center...

Speakers (s)

About Ben:

Ben Erwin, Sr. Product Manager, NetQos Corporation.

How the NetQoS Performance Center manages the network for application performance. The NetQoS Performance Center enables integrated end-to-end application performance monitoring, network traffic analysis, and device performance monitoring through a single management console.

According to Cisco IT: "ReporterAnalyzer is the only complete enterprise solution for NetFlow." ReporterAnalyzer leverages Cisco NetFlow Technology across entire enterprises, providing real-time and historical views into the traffic on a network. We are then only vendor that can provide global visibility for the world's largest enterprises.

Utilizing data sources such as Cisco IOS NetFlow and IP SLA (SAA), you gain insight into all the data needed to resolve performance issues, troubleshoot infrastructure problems, perform capacity planning, and track Service Level Agreements (SLAs), without switching between multiple products. The NetQoS Performance Center integrates data from all areas of your business infrastructure, expedites problem resolution by providing a centralized console for troubleshooting, and empowers all levels of the organization by providing the information needed at the appropriate level.

Ben Erwin is the NetQoS Performance Center Product Manager at NetQoS, Inc., where he sets the strategic direction of the company's product suite and coordinates its sales, marketing, and development efforts.
Previously, Ben served as the NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer Product Manager, where he became the company's NetFlow expert. Ben joined NetQoS in early 2004 as a Product Specialist. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University.

For more information please visit www.netqos.com

Special: Doug Renner will give an update to the group of the happenings at VMworld. OPEN DISCUSSION of the Virtualization trends.

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Cisco IronPort email Security- Stay tuned.

Company:

Presenters:

www.cisco.com

Speakers:
David Pugh- Data Center 3.0 Solutions SE, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Presentation title: Introduction to Cisco Unified Fabric and Cisco Nexus Series Switches.

Agenda: Cisco Data Center Switches are part of a platform that enables your enterprise to:

• Scale and consolidate data center environments
• Enable high-density core, aggregation, and access
• Centralize and virtualize data center core services
• Unify management
• Reduce total cost of operations
• Reduce overall power requirements
• Protect network investments
  

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Cisco IronPort email Security- Stay tuned.

Company:

Presenters:

Arc Solutions designs and develops voice applications for the Cisco Unified Communications platform.

Arc produces market leading Attendant Operator software and is a SolutionsPlus, OEM and Technology Developer Partner.

The Arc suite of products enables organizations to address customer, employee and management communications issues.  Specifically, Arc builds solutions to address critical customer needs as it relates to common customer facing roles such as Operators, Executive Administrators, and Call Center Agents.

www.arcsolutions.com

Speakers:
Anthony Lopez – Sales Director

Anthony Lopez has a diverse background in voice, data, and video technologies.  Over the past 15 years, Anthony has worked in technical and sales roles for several major manufacturers, including IBM, Avaya, and Cisco.  Over the last 10 years, Anthony has worked  extensively with Cisco VOIP technologies.  As Cisco entered into the voice markets, Anthony was selected as the first voice specialist in the Northern California market.

The Arc Approach

Arc Solutions will discuss and demonstrate their market leading suite of software applications.

David Darrough: David Darrough is the West Coast Account Manager for Skyline-ATS, a Cisco Learning Solutions Partner (Delivery of Cisco training and Cisco course development) David’s role at Skyline includes selling Cisco training directly to Cisco Partners and Cisco customers and managing Cisco course development projects directly with Cisco. David is also a subcontracted employee at Cisco Systems as an Advanced Services Education Specialist. Prior to joining Skyline David was in Semiconductor sales for over 20 years.

Presentation title: Skyline-ATS: Cisco Training Capabilities Summary

Agenda: Company overview, Cisco training capabilities, training methods, technical support services, staff augmentation, instructor’s list summary, Cisco Training Matrix (Great training tool), Cisco Learning Credits. All attendees will receive a $750 off voucher for a Skyline training class. There will also be a drawing for one FREE Skyline Training Class valued at $3000, one name will be drawn from the attendees for the winner.

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Cisco IronPort email Security- Stay tuned.

Company:

Presenters:

What's New in the Cisco Unified Contact Center. We will cover the latest updates in UCCX (IPCC Express) with email manager, chat, click to call, workforce management, quality management and ease of implementation for call queuing.

Improve operational efficiency, reduce business costs, and improve customer response with Cisco Unified Contact Center Express. Designed for midmarket, enterprise branch, or corporate departments requiring a sophisticated customer interaction management solution for 10 to 300 agents, this solution is easy to deploy, easy to use, secure, virtual, and highly available. It:

• Simplifies business application integration
• Eases agent administration
• Increases agent flexibility
• Provides efficiency gains in network hosting.

Intended for both formal and informal contact centers, this unified communications solution also delivers:

• Sophisticated call routing
• Comprehensive contact management
• Workforce Optimization, including Workforce Manager, Quality Manager and Advanced Quality Manager
• Robust e-mail management
• Chat and Web collaboration
• Outbound dialing capabilities
• Easy-to-use administration features
• Simplified installation, configuration, and application hosting

www.cisco.com/go/uccx/

Speakers:
Terry McKeon, Product Manager, IP Contact Center Business Unit, Cisco Systems.

Terry is a long time veteran in IP Contact centers and has been the product manager for quite some time. He will be able to answer nearly any question that is technical or feature oriented around Cisco's IP Communications platform.

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

Food and beverages at 6:00 ** Meeting will start at 6:35PM**

Cisco Systems Office, 4th Floor, Pleasanton, CA

5890 Owens Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 223-1000

(925) 997-6436 Cell to call if at the door

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

Company:

Presenters:

What's New in the Cisco Self Defending Network Architecture. We will cover Threat Control, Network Admission Control, Secure Communications and Regulatory Compliance.

Deploy a Resilient, Reliable, Safe Network

www.cisco.com/go/sdn/

Speakers:
Patrick Ramseier, CISSP, Consulting Systems Engineer, Advanced Security Technologies, Cisco Systems.

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag

Pizza to be served...

• Garlex Party Pizza's are the current favorite
• Soda, Tea, Water, etc.

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Cisco Unified Contact Center Express- Find out how your company can provide better customer service, to both internal and external customers... Stay tuned.

Company:

Presenters:

Fluke Networks and Cisco IOS Technologies- Deep Dive into Analysis and Performance

This is a presentation focused on Cisco IOS Technologies, not a Fluke Networks sales pitch.

A discussion on how Cisco IOS Technologies can be leveraged to gain a better understanding of network, voice, and application performance. Included in the presentation will be brief demonstrations of products that can utilize Cisco IOS NetFlow, IP SLAs, and Performance Routing (PfR) to provide unique views into what's really happening on the network.
 
Ward has presented this at Cisco University in Maryland and Virginia (Cisco sponsored).  He has also recently presented this at the SCCUG, SVCUG, and Cisco Networkers Mexico.  The topic has been very well received.  His quote, "It is surprising how few Cisco users have even heard of these IOS technologies."

www.flukenetworks.com

Fluke Speakers:
Ward Cobleigh, Senior Sales Engineer

Giveaways and Raffle...

• Cisco Press Books
• T-Shirts from Fluke
• General Swag

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Cisco Unified Contact Center Express- Find out how your company can provide better customer service, to both internal and external customers... Stay tuned.

Company:

Presenters:

Centralized VoIP Management

ArcanaNetworks' ManageExpress(r) product suite is built on the XML driven proprietary automation platform called OpsXML(r). The
ManageExpress(r) solutions accelerate deployments and remotely automate various network components. These solutions are offered through resellers and partners in Asia, Europe, Australia and North and South America.

The ManageExpress(r) VoIP solution is a centralized voice management solution that increases efficiency & revenue through automation. It is a secure web-based Multi-site, Multi-Tenant Management Portal offering efficient, rapid deployment of IP communications, responsive solutions for key administrative duties, day-to-day maintenance activities and more.

www.arcananet.com

Arcana Speakers:
Trevor Morgan, Senior Sales Engineer
Sarah Kuruvilla, Director Business Operations

Giveaway...

• Cisco Press Books
• Cisco Gym Bag
• General Swag

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Fluke Networks- Find out what is really on your network with Netflow and analysis... Stay tuned.

Company:

Presenters:

Sendio Email Security

Please join us in welcoming Tim Lee-Thorp with Sendio. Tim is Vice President of Marketing and will be presenting on their Enterprise class service appliance that provides email integrity resulting in 100% spam blocking and 0% false positives. Mr. Lee-Thorp will present the today's growing problem and the only effective solution to email integrity. He will be presenting the architecture of the SAV technology and the Sendio I.C.E. Box appliance. Mr. Lee-Thorp will address the current costs to the business in today's currency and address basis for the success of the current "organized internet crime."

www.sendio.com

Giveaway...

• Cisco Press Books
• General Swag
• Q&A and Networking time

If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Tim Lee Thorpe, VP of Marketing with Sendio

Giveaway!: We will be holding a drawing for a few Cisco Press Books to give away.

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Arcana Networks- Cisco IOS GUI Management tools... Stay tuned.

Company:

Presenters:

Voice over Wireless LAN

The objective of this VoWLAN Best Practice session is to help the audience understand the key design considerations to deploy a successful VoWLAN solution. Some of the latest QoS features added to the Cisco Wireless solution will be discussed as well.

Presentation:

• Discuss Wireless Technologies and Update latest
• Discuss the challenges with voice on 802.11 networks
• Review configuration options and deployment models
• QoS on Wireless
• Phone enhancements
• Q&A

Bill Ng - Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Bill Ng is a Systems Engineer in the Commercial West Channels team. Bill has worked at Cisco for the past 10 years. While at Cisco, Bill worked as a Development Test Engineer, a Technical Support Engineer, a Systems Engineer, and as a Technical Marketing Engineer. Prior to joining the field, Bill focused on interoperability testing between Cisco and 3rd party Unified Communications solutions, such as Avaya, Microsoft, and ShoreTel.

Giveaway!: We will be holding a drawing for a new VMWare Padded Laptop Carry bag, we have several new Cisco Logo Pens and a few Cisco Press Books to give away.

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.

What's Next? - Arcana Networks Presentation... Stay tuned.

Kiwi Cat Tools

Speakers (s)

Company:

Kiwi CatTools is a freeware application that provides automated device configuration management on routers, switches and firewalls. Some of the many tasks Kiwi CatTools performs to make your life easier are below.
Customers include Fortune 100 companies, government entities, and
small- and medium-sized businesses.

Presentation:

• Backup the configuration of your device and have any differences instantly e-mailed to you.
• Issue commands via Telnet or SSH to many devices at once.
• Change the configuration of devices at scheduled times.
• Change all your network device passwords in one go. .
• Compare the running config of a device to the startup config and have any differences instantly e-mailed to you.
• CatTools has a built-in TFTP server, supports SSH, Telnet and more.

Presenters:

Ed Horley, Sr. Network Engineer, Microsoft MVP, Peak IP Solutions, has implemented and managed large scale networks for a number of years. He is a huge fan of Kiwi Cat Tools and will demonstrate the benefits live.

Mike Hansen Mike specializes in large scale Microsoft deployments, automated software deployment and Active Directory design and uses Linux Security tools on a regular basis. He is a lead Voice engineer for the Cisco CallManager/ Express solutions and a very sharp engineer. Mike will share the customizations of CallManager with us tonight .

Giveaway!: We will be holding a drawing for a new Cisco Padded Laptop Carry bag, we have several new Cisco Logo Pens and a few Cisco Press Books to give away.

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY.

What's Next? - Arcana Networks Presentation... Stay tuned.

IPcelerate

Speakers (s)

Kelley Bowles
Sales Director-Northern California

IPcelerate was established in 2004 to provide commercial and enterprise customers with enhanced applications and solutions within a VOIP environment. Headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, the company provides clients with highly integrated VOIP solutions that converge with a new or existing telecommunications infrastructure to better utilize investments in resolving business-critical issues.

IPcelerate enables the organizations of the world to do more with VoIP

IPcelerate technologies continue to develop around feedback from hundreds of existing customers and business partners who adopt VOIP solutions for their production environments. Used by companies across all market segments, IPcelerate’s business-impacting technologies continue to raise market expectations around the impact that can and should be realized from VOIP investments. Companies use IPcelerate technologies to integrate VOIP into their staffing requirements, into their physical security requirements, into the revenue goals – into any and every aspect of information exchange in their organizations.

IPcelerate solutions are available globally through a certified family of business partners and resellers.

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY.

What's Next? - Authenex - Mike Kent

Cisco NAC Security Update and more...

Speakers (s)

Weihan Wu, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

We will have an update on Cisco NAC from Weihan Wu, CCIE and Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems. Come hear the latest developments on NAC from the source.

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY.

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What's Next? - Not sure yet. Do you have a suggestion?

About Weihan:

Food and beverages at 6:30 ** Meeting will start at 7PM**

Robert Half International, Inc.

5720 Stoneridge Drive
Pleasanton, CA 94588

(925) 997-6436 Cell

Monitoring, Network Mapping, IDS and more...

Speakers (s)

Wesley Lau, Neon Software Technical Engineer.

In today's complex networking environment, it is crucial that the network administrators have a current and accurate picture of their network's physical topology. Manually mapping a network can be a tedious and error prone affair. That's why Neon Software created LANsurveyor.

LANsurveyor automates mapping any-sized network, from a single subnet to an enterprise with thousands of nodes. LANsurveyor also has asset reporting, network management, and intrusion detection features.

In this presentation, you will learn the following:

* An overview of major LANsurveyor features, including network mapping, asset reporting, and intrusion detection capabilities.

* A brief overview of the technical underpinnings of LANsurveyor

* Presentation and discussion of a various sample network maps

* QA

For more information please visit www.neon.com

Wesley Lau is part of Neon Software's technical staff. He is responsible for supporting both customers and employees and is intricately involved with the design and maintenance of Neon's constantly changing infrastructure.

Wesley holds a BS in computer science from San Francisco State University and is actively working on Cisco certification.

What's Next? - A special meeting at the end of August. We will be merging our meeting with the national Cisco IP Telephony Users Group (CIPTUG).

About Wesley:

How the NetQoS Performance Center manages the network for application performance...

Speakers (s)

Ben Erwin, Sr. Product Manager, NetQos Corporation.

How the NetQoS Performance Center manages the network for application performance. The NetQoS Performance Center enables integrated end-to-end application performance monitoring, network traffic analysis, and device performance monitoring through a single management console.

According to Cisco IT: "ReporterAnalyzer is the only complete enterprise solution for NetFlow." ReporterAnalyzer leverages Cisco NetFlow Technology across entire enterprises, providing real-time and historical views into the traffic on a network. We are then only vendor that can provide global visibility for the world's largest enterprises.

Utilizing data sources such as Cisco IOS NetFlow and IP SLA (SAA), you gain insight into all the data needed to resolve performance issues, troubleshoot infrastructure problems, perform capacity planning, and track Service Level Agreements (SLAs), without switching between multiple products. The NetQoS Performance Center integrates data from all areas of your business infrastructure, expedites problem resolution by providing a centralized console for troubleshooting, and empowers all levels of the organization by providing the information needed at the appropriate level.

Ben Erwin is the NetQoS Performance Center Product Manager at NetQoS, Inc., where he sets the strategic direction of the company's product suite and coordinates its sales, marketing, and development efforts.
Previously, Ben served as the NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer Product Manager, where he became the company's NetFlow expert. Ben joined NetQoS in early 2004 as a Product Specialist. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University.

For more information please visit www.netqos.com

What's Next? - A special meeting at the end of August. We will be merging our meeting with the national Cisco IP Telephony Users Group (CIPTUG).

About Ben:

Network and Application Performance Management! Go deep into the application layer to understand...

Speakers (s)

Joe Habib, Sr. Systems Engineer, WildPackets Corporation.

Network downtime and performance degradation become mission-critical problems, affecting productivity, revenue, and relationships with customers and partners. When network problems occur, how can you resolve them most quickly? By building intelligent network analysis into your network, so that vital information for troubleshooting is always at your fingertips. This seminar presents an overview of packet analysis as a means to identify what is really happening on your network The seminar will include hands on participation, and show how solving real problems quickly.

What you will learn...

. How to do a network capture
. What you can see and where to focus your trouble shooting efforts
. Identifying top protocols
. Identifying top nodes
. Examine packet decode for clues
. Various problem examples
. Q/A

Joe Habib is a seasoned executive with proven expertise in Information Technology, eCommerce, and Systems Management. Joe possesses over 10 years experience in designing, developing, and delivering technology and information management solutions. He has managed large information and network services for several Silicon Valley and international companies. Joe holds a BA in Business and Management Information Systems with an emphasis on Telecommunications from San Jose State University. Joe holds certifications with Cisco and Microsoft

For more information please visit www.wildpackets.com

What's Next? - NetQoS. A cisco Technology Partner and ctitical component in Cisco's own network -coming in August 2006.

Network and Application Performance Management! Go deep into the application layer to understand...

Irene Kane, Sr. Systems Engineer, NetScout Corporation.

We will have interactive discussions will help you come away with the following new knowledge;

Unparalleled views, from the granular details to the highest-level views, of network performance - giving real-time and historical visibility into the application performance of your network.

Optimized operations, the ability to maintain application availability, help fix network degradation issues, and most importantly answer the question "Is Your Network Ready for Voice?"

The ability to leverage and extend all the NetFlow data in your network for advanced application recognition, comprehensive reporting, and integrated troubleshooting.

For more information please visit www.netscout.com

What's Next? - LeftHand Networks iSCSI array technology in February, Cisco CallManager Express Product update in March 2006.

Configuring 802.1X on Cisco catalyst switches with Microsoft IAS. This includes Guest VLAN access for non authenticated users
Configuring Microsoft IAS to do Authentication against Cisco PIX firewalls for controlled Internet access.

Anand Deveriya- CCIE Security # 10401, Author of Cisco Press Book "Network Administrators Survival Guide"

Anand will briefly cover his book and then go over some configurations outlined as follows:

a. 802.1x usiing catalyst switch with MS-RADIUS server and MS ActiveDirectory users (No Cisco ACS).

b. Config and Demo Cacti for performance monitoring of Cisco devices, workstations, bandwidth, etc...

Anand's book will be for sale at the meeting. You may have Anand sign your copy after the meeting...

1) The price of the book is $35 including the shipping.
2) The books will be available on the day of presentation and payment is in cash only.
3) We will have a total of 21 copies. 20 for sale and 1 for raffle.

What's Next? -Netscout is coming in January, Cisco CallManager Express Product update in March 2006.

Discover, Design, Configure, Quote and Order, Document Voice+IP with a single Tool

Kevin Parks, Sales Engineer, Netformx, Inc.

Kevin will focus this interactive session on real-life examples of two major daily challenges faced by sales & design engineers:

1. How an entire network can be discovered and documented in minutes vs days, without the need to physically survey customer sites.

2. How single keying-in to DesignXpert replaces the need to multiple re-keying into CCO, Excel and Visio. Customer-facing deliverables such as Design Documents, Quotes, Network Diagram are automatically generated in standard formats, and Cisco CCO validated configurations are automatically uploaded to obtain a ConfigSet number.

DesignXpert Platinum Edition automates the design, audit, and validation of network solutions, streamlining the proposal and procurement process. Netformx's technology is the industry standard for network design tools.

Network/Application Troubleshooting methodology with lots of case studies and a Focus on Voice over IP

Bo Han, Senior Engineer, Clearsight Networks.

This will be an interactive discussion and demonstration of packet sniffing technology and traffic/application analysis. Bo has done troubleshooting on some of largest networks in the US. He will share his troubleshooting methodology with us to help better understand what the applications are doing on our networks today.

ClearSight AnalyzerTM is an easy-to-use visual analysis application that helps you pinpoint problems on your network so you can solve them quickly and intelligently. ClearSight Analyzer is the easiest method of real-time network application analysis and troubleshooting.

Network problems become crystal clear in real-time with ClearSight Analyzer's monitoring tools. You can eliminate finger pointing with simple visualizations that all of your IT professionals can understand and agree upon. ClearSight Analyzer provides more problem solving information in real-time than other tools, even in forensic post-analysis mode. Learn more at www.clearsightnet.com

Optimizing the delivery of real-time traffic – including voice and video – over converged IP networks!

Stack3- www.stack3.com
The widespread growth of the Internet and pending acceptance of its infrastructure as the de facto platform for business communications have paved the way for businesses to further improve their operations by shifting voice traffic away from expensive and inflexible telephone circuits to versatile Internet data pipes.

Stack3 is developing innovative technologies that will help accelerate the adoption of VoIP. The presentation will cover a number of Stack3 technologies, including C3. C3 is the code name for a 1U rackmountable networking appliance that transparently secures and optimizes the delivery of real-time traffic – including voice and video – over converged IP networks.

Sergey Nikiforov- Vice-President of Product Development
Paul Tocatlian- Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development.

Fighting Spam with DNS, rDNS and SPF!
At the next meeting we will have Ed Horley with j2 Global (eFAX) present the latest updates on SPAM prevention using DNS. He hasupdated his slide deck with new information on rDNS, SPF and the links you need to make it all happen..

Ed has several years of experience working with servers and networking technology. He is a Sr. Network Engineer with j2 Global and runs their global network.
Learn more at www.howfunky.com

Ed Horley, Sr. Network Enginer and overall computing guru, J2 Global

Cisco Security Update!
At the next meeting we will have Patrick Ramsier Security Specialist with Cisco Systems present the latest updates on Cisco Network Admission Control and Intrusion Prevention Technology.

Patrick has a long history of working in Security companies. He will share the latest advancements from Cisco.
Learn more at www.cisco.com/go/nac

Patrick Ramseier, Security Specialist, Cisco Systems

DVC San Ramon Valley Campus
ROOM 212 (this can change so ask at front desk)
3150 Crow Canyon Place
San Ramon, CA 94583
(925) 997-6436 Cell

Douglas Renner (Peak IP Solutions) and Chris Wallace (Intel), Network Engineers.

Alex Henthorn-Iwane from Packet Design www.packetdesign.com

Our Speaker is OJ Nguyen who comes to us with a long history of network integration and consulting background. He is currently with Qovia Systems and will be providing us with the technical details around managing a network with specific focus on the most critical traffic, Voice. The topic is Reliability Assurance through Monitoring and Management.

OJ Nguyen, Consultant. Qovia

We will have Ron Lewis, Product Manager and long time Telephony Specialist covering the newest release of Cisco CallManager Express and Cisco Unity Express. This is a solution where you can run up to 120 phones and up to 50 voice mail boxes on a single router to provide a single small office voice/data solution. More voice mail boxes requires a seperate server...

Ron Lewis, Product Manager, Cisco Call Manager Express

WANDoc Network Management- October 9th, 2003

We will have Neil Henderson, the developer of WANdoc, an open source and commercial tool to manage Cisco routed networks. He will be showing off the latest features, tools, and utilities that he and team have incorporated into the platform. Take a look at www.wandoc.com or the open source website at www.wandoc.net. You will find that this is quite a nice utility. Dont miss the chance to speak with the cheif developer to find out how you can provide better realtime management on your network.

Neil and Jim will be providing FREE CD's to every member in attendance!

Neil Henderson, Chief Developer, WANDoc

Cisco's Voice Strategy- September 11, 2003

We have an exciting topic coming up for the next East Bay Cisco Users Group. Cisco is the leader in IP Telephony and we will have the latest updates given to us by Bill Lulofs, Consulting Systems Engineer in the Service Provider group for Cisco Systems.

Bill will be discussing both the Internet side of telephony as well as the Enterprise side. He is an original Stratacom employee and we are looking forward to him sharing his knowledge with us.

Bill Lulofs, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Storage Networking!

Come learn about iSCSI, SAN, NAS, and Storage Networking. We will have a special presentation from a new technology company, Database Appliances. Thanks in advance for sponsoring food for the event.

Find out more about Storage Networking and Storage Solutions from Cisco and others. A new startup company, Database Appliances will be discussing iSCSI technology and the benefits of accessing your SAN over the IP network for live DB Backup, Restore or Disaster Recovery with their innovative Oracle and SQL backup solutions. If you run a database or a SAN or NAS solution, this is a must attend.

Mark Jumaga, Co-Founder and CTO, Database Appliances

Please be on time in consideration of the speakers.

******* CiscoPress BOOK UPDATE *******

Cisco Press books will be available to those who have reserved them at this meeting. There are several extras available. We will be charging only $5.00 per book. Regular retail price averages $55.00 each. There are some left so come early if you would like to purchase a book.