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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK JANUARY 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JANUARY 2002 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: Thursday, January 24, 2002
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NOTE: SPECIAL DATE +1 WEEK FROM NORMAL
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Where: The Chase Manhattan Bank
55 Water Street (enter at Old Slip)
South Tower
13th Floor, Conference Room C
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YOU MUST RSVP TO GET PAST SECURITY, SEE BELOW!
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Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM Ask the Wizard,
Questions, Answers and Current Events
6:40 PM - 6:50 PM Unigroup Business
6:50 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: Firewalling using Stateful Inspection Packet Filtering
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Speakers: Jeffrey Mow, Territory Manager,
Dan Chevrie, Lead System Engineer,
Netscreen Technologies, Inc.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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* IN ORDER TO PASS THROUGH SECURITY AT CHASE, WE NEED YOU TO RSVP
* PRIOR TO THURSDAY, SO WE CAN GET YOUR NAME ON THE ATTENDEE LIST.
* ADVANCE REGISTRATION AND PHOTO ID ARE REQUIRED!
* RSVP DEADLINE 24-JAN-2002 08:00AM
Please RSVP if you know you are attending or if you think you may
be attending. This will help us arrange for a letter to security
for all of Unigroup. It will also help us to determine the correct
amount of food and refreshments.
To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by:
a) If at all possible, please use the Unigroup Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to have some automation in the RSVP process.
b) If you must Email us, send an EMail containing the FIRST and
LAST NAMEs of the persons attending to the Unigroup RSVP address:
unigroup-rsvp@unigroup.org
The Email subject should start with "RSVP".
You may optionally include your contact phone number (that day)
or other current information.
DO NOT simply reply to this email, sending us back the entire
announcement (we already have it); leaving the subject as it
was, and NOT containing the phrase "RSVP" as requested. In
that case, your message just looks like failed mail and it
makes it impossible to automate the RSVP process and get
you registered for our event.
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site:
http://www.unigroup.org
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. Please
check your email for any last minute announcements prior to the
meeting. Note that only the Attendee First and Last Names will
be provided to Chase Security.
Also note that the driving and parking situation downtown is
TOTALLY UNKNOWN. The recommended transportation method is
therefore mass transit. We believe that the parking lot inside
Chase may be OFF LIMITS.
Description of Talk:
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Firewalling using Packet Filtering and Stateful Inspection Technology.
Stateful Inspection Packet Filtering is Netscreen's business, and
they will be presenting both an overview and technical details
on this subject.
Meeting Outline:
- Enterprise Security Threats
- Today's Security Requirements
- Stateful vs Packet Filter Technologies (Details on Both)
- DoS and DDos - Definition and Prevention (Denial of Service)
- The Extended Network Perimeter & How to Secure it
- Virtual Private Networking Security Hazards
- Enterprise Security Trends
Web Resources:
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1. Netscreen http://www.netscreen.com
2. IPFilter http://www.ipfilter.org
3. IPTables http://www.iptables.org
4. IPChains http://www.iptables.org/ipchains
Giveaways:
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Netscreen will be bring some giveaways which we will raffle off to the
audience: A Netscreen-Logo Leather Notebook Bag and a couple of Golf
Shirts.
Netscreen will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting!
Speaker Biography:
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Jeffrey Mow holds a BS in computer science from Purdue University.
He spent three years developing real-time embedded systems for the
Raytheon Corporation, using IRIX (SGI). He gained much of his
networking experience during his 5 year tenure with Cabletron Systems
here in NYC. Prior to joining NetScreen, Jeff ran the Eastern
Territory for the start-up NextPoint Networks, which was acquired by
NetScout in 1999. Jeff joined NetScreen in 1999 as the lead system
Engineer for the east coast, and now holds the title of Territory
Manager.
Dan Chevrie is the lead system engineer for NetScreen in the NY
territory. Before NetScreen experience Dan was a member of the design
team for OnSite Access. Prior to OnSite Access, Dan was IT Director
at SunGuard Banking systems where he gained valuable knowledge of
mission critical trading applications, and network design.
Company Biography:
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NetScreen Technologies develops ASIC-based Internet security systems
and appliances that deliver high performance firewall, VPN and
traffic management functions to enterprises and service providers.
This approach offers customers performance, scalability, and
manageability in one comprehensive security solution. NetScreen was
founded in 1997, employs more 320 people worldwide, and is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. The Common Stock is traded on the
Nasdaq National Market under the symbol NSCN. The company's website
is www.netscreen.com.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This now includes
salads and sandwiches (eg. turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna, grilled
eggplant, pasta salad, Caesar salad)!
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Directions:
55 Water Street is between Water Street & Front Streets at Old Slip...
about 7 blocks south of Fulton St. and the South Street Seaport.
Take 4 train to Bowling Green & Walk Due East;
Take 2/3 trains to Wall Street, Walk East to Water St.
then walk South 5 blocks;
Take M/J trains to Broad St., Walk East to Water St.;
Take N/R trains to Whitehall St., Walk North East to Water St.
Walking from Wall St., follow William St. south which bends around
and leads you to Hanover Sq. and Old Slip is across Water Street.
** Note the parking situation is TOTALLY UNKNOWN.
We believe that the parking lot inside Chase will be OFF LIMITS.
Room Location Specifics:
Enter the building at Old Slip. To get to the South Tower of the
complex, you enter the building at Old Slip at the "North Tower"
doors. This entrance is is immediately to the right of the main
entrance, towards Water Street... ie. Use the right-most side doors
rather than walking straight ahead at the Old Slip entrance.
Go past the guard's desk (mentioning you are heading for Unigroup,
sometimes there is a sign-in) to the elevator bank and go to the 13th
floor. When you get to the 13th floor, follow the signs leading you
to the meeting room.
The signs will lead you from the elevator, through a set of doors
(soda machine will be on your left), then past the cafeteria. After
the cafeteria, you see another "lobby" area. Walk past the cash
machines, make a left and look for a sign marking the meeting room.
Conference Room C will be on your left.
If you come very early, we may not have the signs in place yet, but
hopefully these directions will get you to the meeting room.
If you arrive before Unigroup Board Members, please be patient and
wait for us to arrive.
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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
* Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Cash, Check, American Express.
* Employees of Chase (with ID) can attend general meetings at no charge.
==> Unigroup is the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate
of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Our Joint Membership Program with UniForum is currently
on hold due to circumstances at UniForum.
For information about UniForum visit http://www.uniforum.org.
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Wireless Networking ** Tentatively: February 21, 2002 **
** Field Trip / Special Location **
- Unix 30th Birthday Celebration
- Zope (Web Page Development)
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- IPsec and IPv6
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- Emacs
- PKI
- GNU Development Environments
- Meetings on a variety of Sun/Solaris/Java topics
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix related technology topics
should contact the Unigroup board at uniboard@unigroup.org.
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3. TRADE SHOWS
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The following Trade Shows will be in NYC shortly. Visit their respective
web sites for further information and free online registration:
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo January 29th - February 1st, 2002
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
New York City
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com
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4. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving the
Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup is a
not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer organization.
Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on
technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix User Community. Unigroup
is also the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate of UniForum - an
International Unix Users Group.
Thanks to Chase, Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months at The Chase Manhattan Bank, 55 Water Street, NYC.
Chase has been a long time sponsor of Unigroup, allowing us the use of a
meeting room and presentation equipment.
Planned meeting dates are: 1/24/2002, 2/21/2002, 3/21/2002, 5/16/2002...
Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC
as well as "field trips" to the facilities of local hardware and
software vendors.
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List send an EMail message to:
unilist@unigroup.org
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard@unigroup.org
To contact the Newsletter Editor, send an EMail message to:
editor@unigroup.org
If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential meeting
topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and content
suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer organization and
we need your assistance! Please let us know if you can help!
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist@unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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