[svlug-announce] SVLUG General Meeting on Wednesday, August 1st: Securing Internet Name Servers

[Mark Weisler]

Join the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) this coming Wednesday
to hear from Cricket Liu about securing internet name servers.

WHEN:
 Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
  7pm-9pm

MAIN PRESENTATION:

  TOPIC:
In this presentation, Cricket will discuss the types of threats name servers 
on the Internet are regularly exposed to, including cache poisoning 
("pharming") and denial of service attacks. He'll go on to describe ten steps 
administrators can take to secure their Internet-connected name servers.

PRESENTED BY:
Cricket Liu
Vice-President of Architecture, Infoblox 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Cricket Liu is author for O'Reilly and Associates of all of the publisher's 
books about the TCP/IP Domain Name System, including the seminal volume "DNS 
and BIND", "DNS on Windows NT", "DNS on Windows 2000", "DNS on Windows Server 
2003", and the "DNS & BIND Cookbook". As the latest step in a distinguished 
career, he is serving as VP of Architecture at  Infoblox, a company that 
specializes in appliances that offer network services, including DNS and 
DHCP.

   NIFTY OF THE MONTH:        To be announced.

   LOCATION:
      Symantec  (formerly Veritas Software Corp.)
      VCAFE Facility
      350 Ellis Street  (near E. Middlefield Road)
      Mountain View, CA 94043

 Directions on how to get there are listed at:

      http://www.svlug.org/directions/veritas.shtml

 We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
 If you have any improvements to make,
 please let SVLUG's volunteers know!
 webmaster {at} svlug -dot- org


POST-MEETING GATHERING:
 If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
 restaurant/diner after the meeting.  We'll announce the restaurant
 selection at the meeting.

We look forward to seeing you there!
-- 
Mark Weisler 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.svlug.org/archives/svlug-announce/attachments/20070730/0661ab98/attachment.bin