[volunteers] Cricket Liu, Infoblox @ SVLUG / Wed, Aug01, 2007 - Confirmed

[Julio Acosta]

Rick-

Here you go

"In this presentation, Cricket will discuss the types of threats that
name servers on the Internet are regularly exposed to, including cache
poisoning
("pharming") and denial of service attacks.  He'll go on to describe 10
steps administrators can take to secure their Internet-connected name
servers."

Thanks

Julio
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Moen [mailto:rick at linuxmafia.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 11:48 AM
To: Julio Acosta
Cc: Aniruddha Mulay; SVLUG Volunteers
Subject: Re: [volunteers] Cricket Liu, Infoblox @ SVLUG / Wed, Aug01,
2007 - Confirmed

Quoting Julio Acosta (jacosta at infoblox.com):

> Please find Cricket's bio attatched. 

Translating to ASCII:

   Cricket Liu is the co-author of all of O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell
   Handbooks on the Domain Name System, DNS and BIND, DNS on Windows NT,
   DNS on Windows 2000, DNS on Windows 2003, and the DNS & BIND
Cookbook,
   and was the principal author of Managing Internet Information
   Services.

   Cricket worked for five and a half years at Hewlett-Packard's
   Corporate Network Services, where he ran hp.com, one of the largest
   corporate domains in the world, and helped design the HP Internet's
   security architecture. He later joined HP's consulting organization
to
   co-found their Internet consulting business.

   Cricket left HP in 1997 to start his own company, Acme Byte & Wire,
   with his friend and co-author Matt Larson. Acme Byte & Wire
   specialized in consulting and training on the Domain Name System,
   including both the BIND and Microsoft DNS Server implementations.
Acme
   Byte & Wire's customers included over 10% of Fortune 100 companies.

   Network Solutions acquired Acme Byte & Wire in June of 2000.
   Subsequently, Network Solutions merged with VeriSign. Cricket became
   Director of DNS Product Management of the merged company, helping
   determine which new DNS-related products VeriSign would offer.

   Cricket left VeriSign in June, 2001, and is currently Vice President
   of Architecture at Infoblox, a company that specializes in appliances
   that offer network services, including DNS and DHCP.

   Recently, Cricket completed the fifth edition of DNS and BIND.


Thanks.  We can boil that down to the ~1 paragraph "More about the
Speaker" standard used on our Web pages.

What is still needed is a one-paragraph detailed decription of Cricket's
lecture topic.

Julio, as an example, our meeting descriptions on the Web tend to be
like this, as on http://www.svlug.org/prevmeet.php (omitting
hyperlinks):



  Date: Mar. 7, 2007  	

  Location: Symantec (formerly Veritas), Mountain View  	 

  Speaker: Seth Schoen, Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier
Foundation

  Topic: DRM as a Threat to Free Software 

  Seth will talk about how digital restrictions management (DRM) and
  related legislative and regulatory measures are excluding free
software
  from interoperating lawfully with a new generation of commercial media
  products, and providing a pervasive excuse for hardware manufacturer
  secrecy. He will give updates on recent DRM developments, and discuss
  why even people who know how to break DRM should be concerned.

  More about the Speaker:  Seth Schoen has served for six years as EFF's
  first-ever Staff Technologist, bridging the technology and legal
worlds.
  Prior to this, he wrote the so-called "DeCSS Haiku" to protest movie
  industry lawsuits against DVD decryption software. He has used Linux
and
  free software since 1995, and has attended a variety of industry DRM
  meetings on three continents. He worked on EFF's successful challenge
to
  the Broadcast Flag regulation.


Best Regards,
Rick Moen
SVLUG Web Team