NW Security

Where:
Crossroads Mall
15600 NE 8TH Street
Bellevue, WA 98008
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Seattle Weblog Meetup

Where: Ralph's Grocery and Deli, 2035 4th Ave in Seattle, across from the Cinerama.

There's food and drink available -- you can even buy a beer and drink it in the deli area where we are. Free WiFi, too!

Special holiday note: bring your white elephants, wrapped or in bags, or just bring yourself! We have new faces every month along with a friendly regular crowd.

You can still attend even if you aren't a member of Meetup.com (but joining is free).

The WSA is pleased to be partnering with Parnassus Ventures in bringing The Blog Business Summit to the Bell Harbor Conference Center January 24-25.

Why should businesses care about blogging, and how can they take advantage of this new way to collaborate and to disseminate their message? While far more complete answers will be revealed at the Summit, businesses should consider the following:

• Blogs are significantly easier and cheaper to create, update, and maintain than traditional sites.
• Blogs are consistently positioned much higher than traditional sites in Google and other search engine results.
• Blogs broadcast RSS feeds, which are read by rapidly growing numbers (in the millions) of users who have moved from the Web browser to newsreaders as their main info portals.
• Blogs can provide powerful and easy to use content management and workgroup collaboration capabilities for just pennies.

Attendees will learn: What blogging tools offer what relevant features * how, what and when to post to blogs * how to maximize the PR benefits from (and minimize damage from) blogs and bloggers * how blogs can make and save money * how to get your blog widely read and linked to * how to use blogs as for internal communication and collaboration * what pitfalls to avoid

REGISTER HERE

From the Calendar of CISSP_PNW

Event Location: T-Mobile / Factoria

Notes: Please see this posting with detailed agenda, directions, and request for RSVP.

This study group is offered at no charge to all security professionals in the Seattle area. Please share the word with any of your colleagues who are studying for the exam.

For more info, contact CISSP_PNW@yahoogroups.com, or To visit this group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CISSP_PNW/

Keynote speaker - TippingPoint Darren Rogers, Senior Systems Engineer, TippingPoint Technologies Bruce Bronczyk, Senior Network Administrator, eNom, Inc.

Application Security: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection "

Mr. Bronczyk has been battling some very large DDoS SYN Flood attacks on his networks. He tested a number of the leading Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) products to defend his networks and will share with ISSA members what he discovered. Darren Rogers will elaborate on Mr. Bronczyk 's discussion about DDoS application security, using some of TippingPoint's technologies to help discuss how one can adequately defend against such an attack.

Attendees should be sure to attend this meeting hungry and will be able to select items from a B-B-Q dinner catered by Jones Barbecue. We will be giving away two $200 Fryes Gift Certificates, TippingPoint t-shirts and TippingPoint Magic Eight balls.

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