Build Lab - Raspberry Pi -November 19, 2016

Come join CINPA at Max Technical Training on November 19 from 9-5 to learn about lots of different things you can do with the Raspberry Pi.

Please click on the link below for the REQUIRED hardware (please bring WIRED keyboard and mouse) and to make sure you have all the required software for you are ready to go and don't get left behind.

Make sure you register to reserve your space.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-lab-raspberry-pi-tickets-28413195633

CINPA Discussion - November 2, 2016

Unfortunately we've had a late cancellation by our intended speaker, Brad Sams, for the November CINPA Meeting. As of this moment we have not been able to line up a replacement speaker. Since there are a number of business items to talk about I would still like to go ahead and have your attendance at the meeting.

Items to discuss:

  1. Announcement of CINPA Officers Election in December.

Open position - Vice President (Programming) Anyone interested in filling this position or participating in other capacity should let me know

  1. December meeting announcement and Presenter info

  2. Upcoming Build Labs coverage and discussion

CINPA Discussion - November 2, 2016

Unfortunately we've had a late cancellation by our intended speaker, Brad Sams, for the November CINPA Meeting. As of this moment we have not been able to line up a replacement speaker. Since there are a number of business items to talk about I would still like to go ahead and have your attendance at the meeting.

Items to discuss:

  1. Announcement of CINPA Officers Election in December.

Open position - Vice President (Programming) Anyone interested in filling this position or participating in other capacity should let me know

  1. December meeting announcement and Presenter info

  2. Upcoming Build Labs coverage and discussion

Brad Sams - November 2, 2016

Brad Sams is an executive editor, journalist, podcaster, extraordinary gentleman, and much much more. He can be found at both Petri.com and Thurrott.com writing about all the latest in technology https://www.thurrott.com/author/brad-sams He frequently attends Microsoft event, and he just got back from Build. He does a free weekly podcast called the Sams Report, and he just started a daily podcasted with Paul Thurrott called First Ring Daily which can be accessed with a premium subscription to Thurrott.com. He also is very active providing updates and insights such as "Amazon said to be considering lawsuit against Samsung for stealing its Fire phone branding."@bdsams Come join us and experience this legendary Cincinnatian in person.

Recruiter/Career Night - October 5, 2016

Come join us for our annual IT Recruiter/Career Night. Come learn everything you need to know about landing that perfect IT job. Get the edge you need, and learn how to network so your resume packet is not dropped. Learn the language of the interview to help you get that A+ performance. In no time, you will be sipping on some Java and eating some Pi with that perfect job.

Best part: if you are looking for a job, we will waive the $5 meeting fee. **Note CINPA is not responsible for actual job placement Results may vary. Please find another recruiter if problem persists.**

Change of P(l)ace - July 6, 2016 - Dinner Social

This is v5 of the Summer CINPA Social where we change the P(l)ace. No tech presentation this night - instead we will meet on the second floor of Molly Malone's in Covington. Please feel free to bring a guest - techie or non-techie. In the past some have brought a friend, significant other or spouse and some children. This is an opportunity to show people you know what kind of folks you hang out with when you attend CINPA.

Molly Malone's has a pool table and dart boards on the second floor that we will have access to.

7pm - whatever Molly Malones' 112 E 4th St Covington, KY 41011 (859) 491-6659

CINPA will be treating to hors d'oeuvres. Dinner and drinks are on you.

See you there.

If you really want to plan ahead:

Limited Menu.

Starters

Beer Cheese & Pretzels - $6.99 – Two large soft pretzels served with house made Guinness cheese fondue with a zing!

Soup

Potato Leek - $2.99 cup / $3.99 bowl – Home style, rich and full of flavor!

Salads

Molly’s House Salad - $7.99 Side salad $4.99 – Fresh field greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumber julienne, goat cheese and pickled onion.

Classic Caesar - $7.99 Side Caesar $4.99 – Crisp romaine, parmesan cheese and herbed croutons tossed in a Tuscan Add Chicken $3.00

Entrees

Shepherds Pie - $9.99 – Traditional combination of lamb, beef, vegetables and Demiglace, topped off with piped mashed potatoes

Fish ‘n’ Chips - $10.99 half order $6.99 – Legendary! A half pound fish fillet with steak fries, served with a side of slaw and our house tarter sauce.

Bangers & Mash - $10.99 – Traditional Irish pork sausages, served on a bed of mash and finished with a savory demi-glace.

Sandwiches

Black Bean Burger – A large fine spiced mix of black beans, mushrooms, potato and carrots in a patty served with lettuce and onion on toasted rye. $7.99

Molly’s Beef Burger - $8.95 – The bomb! ½ lb of fresh ground beef, made in house, topped with lettuce, tomato and white cheddar.

Chicken & Country Ham with Brie – $7.99 – Chicken breast topped with grilled ham and brie served on a hoagie roll.

Bring Me Your Old, Decrepit, and Failing HDDs - June 1, 2016

ThinkGreenPC http://thinkgreenpc.com/ will be here to talk their business and about how to properly recycle your technology equipment. They will bring a portable HDD shredder, so bring you HDDs you want to properly dispose of. Then watch your bytes get shred to bits. Look forward to seeing you at *Cincinnati State Technical & Community College *at 10100 Reading Roa in Evendale at 7:00 p.m.

FB Video of this presentation - credit to Walter Broadnax -
 

Microsoft Licensing Audits - a local story - May 4, 2016

Ever been subject to a MS License audit? Want to know what is involved and what you are in for? Come hear Bryan and Kevin describe the audit they went through, the issues in doing the audit, tools they used, and the end result of the audit. Tips on how to handle the auditor you are working with will also be given.

Look forward to seeing you at *Cincinnati State Technical & Community College *at 10100 Reading Road http://www.cinpa.org/map in Evendale at 7:00 p.m. http://www.cinpa.org/

Windows Server 2016 Imprints: Shielded VM, Container and Nano Server - April 6, 2016

The next release of Windows Server is Windows Server 2016 which is intended to be a hallmark delivery since Windows NT. There will be a suite of newly introduced features to fundamentally improve enterprise security and IT's readiness for cloud computing. This session offers a preview of three important capabilities: Shielded VM, Container and Nano Server of Windows Server 2016. The demonstrations are to signify how they improve and change IT in security, elasticity and deployment.

yung chou technology evangelist @microsoft | bio https://yungchou.wordpress.com/about/ | content | rss https://yungchou.wordpress.com/feed/ | interesting read

If you can't wait, Keith Mayer, Principal Technical Architect; Microsoft Azure / DevOps, wants to share a short "preview" of Windows Server 2016 as a "teaser" to Yung's upcoming presentation on April 6th. The following recorded episode that we recently published on Windows Server 2016 TP4 and the new Nested Virtualization feature .

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2016/02/26/part-27-building-yo ur-hybrid-cloud-nested-virtualization-in-windows-server-2016.aspx

Look forward to seeing you at *Cincinnati State Technical & Community College *at 10100 Reading Road http://www.cinpa.org/map in Evendale at 7:00 p.m. http://www.cinpa.org/

UPDATE - See/hear recording of this presentation

Get to Know your SIG - March 2, 2016

Come this Wednesday and learn about all the different Special Interest Groups we offer. We offer Small Business, Security, and Open Source. We are going to wrap it all with playing Password, and of course there are going to be cool and fabulous prizes*. Look forward to seeing you at *Cincinnati State Technical & Community College *at 10100 Reading Road http://www.cinpa.org/map in Evendale at 7:00 p.m. http://www.cinpa.org/

*Cool and fabulous are a matter of preference. CINPA does not guarantee the coolness of fabulousness of the prizes. Prizes subject to change without notice. No more information at http://www.cinpa.org/

First Annual CINPA IT Trivia Night February 3, 2016

Come to the first annual CINPA IT Trivia Night. Come test your knowledge and impress your friends with how much IT knowledge you have. You even might have a chance to win some cool and fabulous prizes* Look forward to seeing you at *Cincinnati State Technical & Community College *at 10100 Reading Road http://www.cinpa.org/map in Evendale at 7:00 p.m. http://www.cinpa.org/

*Cool and fabulous are a matter of preference. CINPA does not guarantee the coolness of fabulousness of the prizes. Prizes subject to change without notice. No more information at http://www.cinpa.org/

Symantec - January 6, 2016

Patrick Tyler has worked for Symantec over the last 10 years in various pre-sales and technical leadership roles and currently holds the esteemed position of Distinguished Systems Engineer, which is  reserved for the top 1% of Senior Engineers at Symantec.  In this role, Patrick is dedicated to specializing in Mobility, Authentication, Virtualization, and Endpoint technologies and to work with various Symantec product teams to evolve and enhance products to meet the growing and changing needs of a diverse customer base.  In addition to Symantec, Patrick has had over 25 years of IT experience working for companies such as Sarcom, Novell, Altiris, Symantec, and GE in various architecture, consulting, and leadership roles.  

Current certifications include: BS CIS, MCSE, MCNE, ITIL v3, CISSP, CCSK, CIA, VTSP 5

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Security/Hackers' Night - December 2, 2015

December is our annual Hackers' Night.  

Eric Kornau has been putting together something special for you this year.  Details bellow.

Other items of interest for December:

In recognition of the season and nearing the close of the year and start of a new one we usually have a little finer fare than the pizza snack the rest of the year.  You don't have to dress formal for this but it should be fun.

Elections for 2016 CINPA Board Members will be held.  The slate as it stands presently:

Allen Miller - President
(vacant) - Vice President
Kevin Royalty - Development Director
Ron Schuermann - Treasurer
Brad Green - Membership Director
Chad Claussen - Public Relations, Social Media

HACKERS NIGHT Details

·         Matt Schuerer will be doing a talk titled:  Surveillance Using Spare Stuff.  This talk focuses on building your own robust surveillance system using items you either already own or may purchase inexpensively. The information presented demonstrates how to build full featured security systems on a shoestring budget. Topics covered include video and audio surveillance, configuring motion detection alarms, monitoring defined hot zones, remote notification and alerting, recording archival, and more. 

·         Brad Stroeh will be presenting Network Access Control (NAC) Attacks and Mitigation.  This talk will focus on the techniques that attackers use to bypass NAC and will offer tips on prevention and detection.

·         Jack Gerbs will be doing a presentation on NIST’s CyberSecurity Framework (CSF) and the use of Security Onion.   Since releasing the Framework in February 2014, NIST has been educating a broad audience about the Framework's use and value. The Framework is being employed across the country, in a host of sectors, and by organizations ranging from multinationals to small businesses.  Recently, NIST has focused its outreach efforts on the international, regulator, and small and medium business (SMB) communities. Jack will explain what the CSF means to you.  He will address the Framework’s emphasis on continuous monitoring and how Security onion can be used to address Framework categories and detect intrusions and anomalies on your network.

·          Eric Kornau will do a short presentation (time permitting) on “Stealing plain-text Passwords from Windows Memory”.  This talk addresses techniques that attackers use to steal Windows Credentials.  Microsoft has issued a patch for Windows 7, 8 2008r2 and 2012 which can mitigate many of the credential theft attacks, but the patch (KB2871997) requires additional configuration via a registry key to be effective.  Security audits show that many admins are unaware of this requirement.    A handout will be provided with step by step instructions for deploying the needed registry entries via group policy.

Recruiter/Career Night - October 7, 2015

An annual favorite topic - IT Recruiter/Career Night

This year we have a stellar panel representing 3 different aspects of career advancement -

1) Bonnie Walthen - Corporate Recruiter for Western & Southern

2) Lisa Slutsky - Career Manager for MAX Train

3) Niccole Brege - Senior National Recruiter for Resolvit

So we've got an in-house recruiter for a large insurance company, an IT career specialist for a technical training company and a recruiter from a local consulting company.

This will be a good opportunity to find out about the IT market and upcoming trends.

Pictured
1 - Bonnie Walthen
2 - Lisa Slutsky
3 - Niccole Brege

Change of P(l)ace - July 1, 2015 - Dinner Social

This is v4 of the Summer CINPA Social where we change the P(l)ace.  No tech presentation this night - instead we will meet on the second floor of Molly Malone's in Covington.  Please feel free to bring a guest - techie or non-techie.  In the past some have brought a friend, significant other or spouse and some children.  This is an opportunity to show people you know what kind of folks you hang out with when you attend CINPA.

Molly Malone's has a pool table and dart boards on the second floor that we will have access to.

7pm - whatever
Molly Malones'
112 E 4th St
Covington, KY 41011
(859) 491-6659

CINPA will be treating to hors d'oeuvres.  Dinner and drinks are on you.

See you there.

If you really want to plan ahead:

Limited Menu.

Starters

Beer Cheese & Pretzels - $6.99 – Two large soft pretzels served with house made Guinness cheese fondue with a zing!

Soup

Potato Leek - $2.99 cup / $3.99 bowl – Home style, rich and full of flavor!

Salads

Molly’s House Salad - $7.99 Side salad $4.99 – Fresh field greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumber julienne, goat cheese and pickled onion.

Classic Caesar - $7.99 Side Caesar $4.99 – Crisp romaine, parmesan cheese and herbed croutons tossed in a Tuscan Add Chicken $3.00

Entrees

Shepherds Pie - $9.99 – Traditional combination of lamb, beef, vegetables and Demiglace, topped off with piped mashed potatoes

Fish ‘n’ Chips - $10.99 half order $6.99 – Legendary!  A half pound fish fillet with steak fries, served with a side of slaw and our house tarter sauce.

Bangers & Mash - $10.99 – Traditional Irish pork sausages, served on a bed of mash and finished with a savory demi-glace.

Sandwiches

Black Bean Burger – A large fine spiced mix of black beans, mushrooms, potato and carrots in a patty served with lettuce and onion on toasted rye. $7.99

Molly’s Beef Burger - $8.95 – The bomb! ½ lb of fresh ground beef, made in house, topped with lettuce, tomato and white cheddar.

Chicken & Country Ham with Brie – $7.99 – Chicken breast topped with grilled ham and brie served on a hoagie roll.