Date: Jan 01/02/11 10:08 AM From: "Dale Heron" Subject: [BNUG News] *** January 4 BNUG Meeting Announcement *** Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday January 4 - 6:30-9:00PM ** THIS MONTH: How To Enable An infrastructure for Out-of-Band Management ------------------------------------------------------------ Please join BNUG for a presentation on How To Enable An infrastructure for Out-of-Band Management presented by Stephen Niemi from Network Systems Sales (www.networksystemssales.com). Why You Should Attend * Ever been tasked to connect a monitoring device but come up short on available connectivity? * Concerned about getting a call in wee hours of the morning to troubleshoot a network issue, having to travel to the possible site of the problem? * Ever had to migrate a network tool from one segment to another by traveling to the site? * Are network tools sitting on the shelf for lack of available connections? * Do you have to get approval to attach a tool to monitor the network? * Ever encounter a problem whereby management has concern about IT staff observing certain PCI, SS numbers or any proprietary data elements when monitoring the network? * Have you and a fellow network staff member been tasked to concurrently analyze the same network traffic? * Are you having performance issues with a favorite tool? * Want to help conserve on IT budget? If you answered YES to any of the above, you will want to attend this presentation. What you will learn * How to work in harmony with security engineering * How to share a tool across network segments * How you can bring new life to network tools * How you can maximize an investment in existing network tools * Minimize/eliminate configuration management issues and lengthy change order approval * How to centralize network monitoring tools * How to use a 1 gig tool to monitor 10 gig network * How to shape a data stream for capture/analysis * How to share a data stream * How to filter extraneous traffic, producing only traffic of interest for analysis * And more!! BIO: ----- 15 Years in engineering covering test engineering, missile system flight modeling, DSP programming, communications software development and technical support. Over 27 years in technical marketing and sales including startups in network connectivity, software tools and security software. In 2006: Started Network Systems Sales LLC focusing on network connectivity hardware/software and security hardware/software for IT organizations by partnering with technology companies as a value-added-reseller. Has a goal of continuously seeking emerging/new technologies for use by IT. Please join us on Tuesday, January 4th at 6:30PM where we will be Meeting at Microsoft's Waltham Offices, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, Mass. Please see our web site for directions to the meeting location. http://www.bnug.org/ * Refreshments are served from 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00pm with the technical presentation concluding at 9:00 pm. * BNUG monthly meetings, membership and refreshments are always FREE and you are not required to be a member to attend. If you wish to join BNUG, are interested in more information, or need directions to BNUG's meeting place at Microsoft in Waltham please visit the BNUG web site at: http://www.bnug.org/ * FUTURE MEETINGS Here is a tentative schedule of what's being planned for future BNUG meetings: February 1, “Top 10 Ways IT is Enabling Cybercrime” by Mark Villinsky, Kaspersky Lab March 1: “Best practices for mapping and discovering your network” by Ipswitch Networks * The LANtern Online is now available at http://bnug.blogspot.com/ * To opt out of this monthly e-mail reminder or change your BNUG e-mail preferences, go to: _______________________________________________ BNUG mailing list BNUG@bgaddict.com http://bgaddict.com/mailman/listinfo/bnug