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2007 November Sydney SBS Group Meeting

The November Sydney SBS Group meeting is being moved to just over a week later this month and will be held on Wednesday November 21st, 2007. 

We've got a fantastic opportunity to have a number of well known international SBS MVPs as well as the leaders of the other Australian SBS Groups here in Sydney for the event. 

For those of you outside of Sydney, we'll be webcasting the event.  Regardless of attending in person or via the webcast, we ask that you register and we'll send you the link for the webcast and reminders closer to the day.

  
Event Details

When November 21st, 2007
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Where Microsoft Australia Offices
1 Epping Road
North Ryde, NSW, Australia
Cost $5.00 per person - paid at the door
Registration Register Now
 
The Agenda

5:00pm Registration / Introductions
5:30pm Formal Introductions / Speaker Backgrounds
6:00pm Jeff Alexander - Windows Server 2008 Network Access Protection
6:30pm Dana Epp - Two Factor Authentication in SBS environments.  What is it? Why do you need it? How can you implement it for your customers?
7:30pm Pizza Break
8:00pm Amy Babinchak - ISA 2004 - 101 for Dummies.  The basics of ISA 2004, what you need to know in a nutshell
8:30pm Question and Answer time with our panel belower

Our International Guests

Dana Epp
Dana Epp researches software security and sets the corporate vision in the convergence of information security principles and practices with digital information asset protection at Scorpion Software. As a computer security software architect, Dana has spent the last 15 years focusing on computer programming with a particular emphasis on security engineering to offer a safer computing environment for small business.
Dana has been an instructor in the Computer Information Systems department at the University College of the Fraser Valley and British Columbia Institute of Technology, teaching students about computer programming and information security. He has brought to market various computer security products including secure operating systems, firewalls, VPNs, authentication devices and intrusion prevention systems (IPS). His latest research has been on identity and access control for Windows-based environments, focusing on two-factor authentication solutions for small business.

Amy Babinchak
Amy owns Harbor Computer Services, a consulting firm specializing in providing IT services to small businesses. She has 15 years of experience in the IT industry, is the founder and leader of a local SMB user group and is an ISA MVP. Her interest in ISA goes back to the first release, which she saw as a major advancement in security control options for small businesses. Amy has written several articles, publishes an SBS specific ISA blog, is a contributing author of SBS 2003 Unleashed, has been a speaker to several SBS user groups, webcasts and conferences, and offers her services to assist other SBS consultants with ISA and network configuration issues. .

Susan Bradley
Susan Bradley is a Small Business Server and Security MVP Diva and is widely recognised as the expert on the subject of patching an SBS box properly and shares her knowledge of what can be a rather dry subject in a very compelling and entertaining way.
Susan lives, breathes, and we think even eats SBS but more importantly, is a tech savvy CPA - being a principal with Tamiyasu, Smith, Horn and Braun in Fresno, California.
Susan is also an accomplished author with a number of security focused chapters in many SMB books.  She's currently writing for the upcoming Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit which will be available early in 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/11841.aspx

Eriq Neale
Eriq Oliver Neale is an author/speaker/musician/consultant who plies his craft supporting technology for small businesses. President and founder of EON Consulting in Denton, Texas, Eriq was the lead author of Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed. He specializes in cross-platform integration in small business networks, and consults with IT professionals around the globe. Eriq can be found in the SBS newsgroups, in the forums at smallbizserver.net, and can be heard on the weekly eOnCall internet radio program.