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Security Impact of Social Engineering - SECON 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017 - 8:30 AM–5:30 PM
New Jersey City University
2039 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305

Attend a one day event sponsored by the NJ Chapter of (ISC)2, friends, and sponsoring NY/NJ/CT Metro area associations. Leaders in the industry are excited to present leading edge insights, discussion and exchange of innovative, future focused ideas and solutions to address technical and business related social engineering. Highlights include: Learning about CEO Fraud/Whaling (non-technical Social Engineering), Ransomware, Interactive Social Engineering sessions, Social Engineering Video Contest, Social Engineering Toolkits, IoT, Fraud, legal and compliance, SE perpetrated against individuals, higher education CISO panel and a CISO panel discussing impacts of SE on corporations.

For details on the Program Agenda, Speakers, and to Register for the event, please click the link here

Sun, 21 May 2017 12:49:00 +0000

2016 New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference Update


As some of you know I help run a day Security conference in NYC. The event is made up of Security groups in the New York Metro area

MYMJCSC: Who We Are
The New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference is a collaborative event cooperatively developed, organized and sponsored by the leading information security industry organizations and chapters.

Driven by the collaboration between members of this coalition, the strength of organizational membership, the provision of desirable CPE credits and the concurrence of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the NYMJCSC promises -- once again -- to be a well-attended by members of the information technology, information security, audit, academic, and business communities.

As part of our educational mission as a coalition of non-profit organizations, registration fees are only to cover the costs of the facility, food and refreshments.

Here are the Videos from last year talks

http://nymjcsc.org/event-videos/ or here
https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nymjcsc/videos/138075583
We are ramping up again for Oct 5,  2017 and a call for speaker will be going out shortly



Sat, 06 May 2017 15:53:00 +0000

The Dark Web - DarkNet —A Threat to Your Business? 


I did a webcast for ISACA on The Dark Web, DarkNet —A Threat to Your Business?  
The original talk was on  Thursday, 20 April 2017, the talk was 1 hour and is good for 1 CPE

The DarkNet is the World Wide Web content that exists on DarkNet, overlay networks which use the public Internet but require specific anonymizing software, configurations or authorization to access. It’s a secretive place where dissidents can hide their digital tracks, a place where whistleblowers can reach out safely to scoop-seeking media outlets and where you can buy PII and sensitive information. Having an integrated understanding of the DarkNet is important.
During this webinar, you will learn:
You can see the recording at

http://www.isaca.org/Education/Online-Learning/Pages/Webinar-The-Dark-Web-a-Threat-to-Your-Business.aspx

There also is blog article that gives addition information. you can see the blog at

 http://www.isaca.org/Knowledge-Center/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=796


Sat, 06 May 2017 14:51:00 +0000

Free training from Microsoft



Azure for IT Pros Content Series
IT Pros, if you’re ready to dive into Azure—from fundamentals to deployment, security, and management, along with scale and agility, this series of courses is for you!  Get an authoritative and comprehensive look at Azure and its components.  And come back for more, as this series will eventually include as many as 12 courses, with topics ranging from Azure Storage, Azure Data Services, Azure Web Apps and Mobile Apps, and much more—basically, all you need to know about Azure.


DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server
If your team is designing, building, and managing enterprise solutions and cross-platform mobile business apps, you may have already established some DevOps guidelines. Watch this course for detailed DevOps training! See how practicing DevOps can help teams respond faster to competitive pressures by replacing error-prone manual processes with automation for improved traceability and repeatable workflows. This course explores the Microsoft DevOps solution built upon the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) platform.


Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:40:00 +0000

Free books from Microsoft

Here are some free eBooks that are on the Microsoft site that you can download.



 

Published: October 2016|90 pages
Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016
Buck Woody, Danielle Dean, Debraj GuhaThakurta, Gagan Bansal, Matt Conners, Wee-Hyong Tok
Download hereThe world around us—every business and nearly every industry—is being transformed by technology. SQL Server 2016 was built for this new world and to help businesses get ...ahead of today’s disruptions. With this free eBook, learn to install, configure, and use Microsoft’s SQL Server R Services in data science projects. R is one of the most popular, powerful data analytics languages and environments in use by data scientists

Published: September 2016|435 pages
Introducing Windows Server 2016 John McCabe
Download hereWindows Server has powered a generation of organizations, from small businesses to large enterprises. No matter what your area of expertise, this book will introduce you... to the latest developments in Windows Server 2016. Each chapter has been written by either field experts or members of the product group, giving you the latest information on every improvement or new feature that is included in this version of Windows Server

Published: September 2016|246 pages
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition
Michael S. Collier and Robin E. Shahan
Download hereThe “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series helps you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. This book covers the fundamentals of Azure you need to start developing solutions right away. It concentrates on the features of the Azure platform that you are most likely to need to know rather than on every feature and service available on the platform. This book also provides several walkthroughs you can follow to learn how to create VMs and virtual networks, websites and storage accounts, and so on. In many cases, real-world tips are included to help you get the most out of your Azure experience. In addition to its coverage of core Azure services, the book discusses common tools useful in creating and managing Azure-based solutions

Published: July 2016|189 pages
Introducing Microsoft Power BI
Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo
Download hereGet started quickly with Microsoft Power BI! Experts Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo will help you bring your data to life, transforming your company’s data into rich visuals for you to collect and organize, allowing you to focus on what matters most to you. Stay in the know, spot trends as they happen, and push your business to new limits. This eBook introduces Microsoft Power BI basics through a practical, scenario-based guided tour of the tool, showing you how to build analytical solutions using Power BI. Get an overview of Power BI, or dig deeper and follow along on your PC using the book's examples


Published: July 2016|125 pages
Windows 10 IT Pro Essentials Support Secrets
Ed Bott
Download hereDive in to Windows 10 with award-winning journalist and Windows Expert Ed Bott in this highly curated free eBook of essential Windows 10 support secrets. Whether you’re ...training a classroom full of office workers or working one on one with a harried small business owner, your first challenge in introducing Windows 10 is helping each user get comfortable with new ways of doing familiar tasks. The amount of change can be overwhelming, especially for nontechnical users who’ve grown accustomed to Windows 7 after years of everyday use. This book is for anyone who trains people to use Windows 10, including IT pros and those brave souls who staff the help desk in corporations. Most of all, it includes the incredibly large population of people who have earned a reputation for being “the person who knows Windows.


Published: July 2016|192 pages
Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities
Jeremy Taylor, Neil Hodgkinson, and Manas Biswas
Download hereMicrosoft SharePoint hybrid consists of a growing list of advanced hybrid solutions that empowers organizations to consume benefits of the cloud and maintain their on-premises investments. This book is the second in a series of SharePoint hybrid books in which we show you how to configure, troubleshoot, and manage a SharePoint hybrid environment. As you move toward configuring a SharePoint hybrid environment, you will soon realize the need for a go-to manual to ensure a successful implementation. This book does exactly that! It contains step-by-step instructions to help you with configuring and managing SharePoint hybrid. Although, it is aimed primarily for a technical audience, it also addresses business benefits that you might need to present to your management. This book covers configuring these SharePoint hybrid capabilities in detail, along with scenario-based troubleshooting and recommended practices


Published: June 2016|214 pages
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016: Mission-Critical Applications, Deeper Insights, Hyper scale Cloud
Stacia Varga, Denny Cherry, and Joseph D’Antoni
Download hereWith Microsoft SQL Server 2016, a variety of new features and enhancements to the data platform deliver breakthrough performance, advanced security, and richer, integrated reporting and analytics capabilities. In this eBook, we introduce new security features: Always Encrypted, Row-Level Security, and dynamic data masking; discuss enhancements that enable you to better manage performance and storage: TemDB configuration, query store, and Stretch Database; review several improvements to Reporting Services; and, describe Always on Availability Groups, tabular enhancements, and R Integration



Published: June 2016|67 pages
Microsoft Platform and Tools for Mobile App Development
Cesar de la Torre and Simon Calvert
Download hereUnderstanding and creating a mobile app development strategy is an important process for today’s development decision-makers opening new business opportunities or empowering employees to be more productive with new capabilities. Microsoft defines an end-to-end platform for the agile creation of mobile apps that can target any platform (iOS, Android, or Windows), provides easy consumption of services in the cloud or on-premises, spans the requirements for consumer or employee scenarios, offers development teams DevOps tools to improve quality and to achieve faster time to market, and allows for integration with existing enterprise systems. This eBook outlines that end-to-end platform for organizations selecting technologies and tools for a mobile application development platform and for rapid mobile application development. It also describes the core decision factors that organizations should consider, and it outlines the technical capabilities available within Microsoft solutions and products

Published: June 2016|161 pages
Microsoft Azure Essentials Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure
Carl Rabeler
Download here art of the “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series, this eBook helps SQL Server database users understand Microsoft’s offering for SQL Server in Azure. Learn how SQL Server... in Azure is like SQL Server in an on-premises environment, and how they are different. The author, a content lead for Azure.com, walks you through the steps of getting started with SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine and with Azure SQL Database. Follow the numerous screenshots to create a trial subscription, create SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine, create an Azure SQL Database, migrate an on-premises database to each Azure environment, create users, backup and restore data, and archive dateless


 
Published: May 2016|113 pages
Planning and Preparing for Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid
Jeremy Taylor
Download hereThis book is part of a series to provide readers from all over the world with a guide on how to connect SharePoint on-premises to Microsoft's cloud services. You will gain insight into planning, architecture, configuration, and management of SharePoint hybrid. This book covers foundational topics with which you will learn more about Office 365 and Microsoft Azure, architecture planning, platform hygiene and preparation, directory synchronization, and how to configure a seamless single sign-on experience for users


Windows 10 IT Pro Essentials: Top 10 Tools
Published: May 2016|165 pages
Windows 10 IT Pro Essentials: Top 10 Tools
Ed Bott
Download hereDive in to Windows 10 with award-winning journalist and Windows Expert Ed Bott in this highly curated free eBook covering the top apps, accessories, and utilities included in the box with Windows 10.
The sheer volume of Windows programs and accessories says a lot about the power and complexity of Windows—a fact that every IT pro knows from firsthand experience. There’s a tool for nearly every task, and a large part of the process of becoming a Windows expert is knowing how to find the appropriate one when you need it.
This eBook contains descriptions and hands-on advice to help IT Pros work faster and smarter. Some of these tools are for everybody—end users and experts alike—whereas some are strictly for professionals. A few are so specialized that you’ll only need them once in a blue moon. Collectively, though, they make up a toolbox that can save you (and your company) time and moneyless

Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms
Published: March 2016|1187 pages
Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms  Charles Petzold
Download herehttps://mvapublicstorage.blob.core.windows.net/book/ebook/down_arrow.pngWritten by legendary author Charles Petzold, this 1200-page eBook is a deep dive for C# programmers who want to write applications using a single code base that targets ...the three most popular mobile platforms: iOS, Android, and Windows, encompassing the Universal Windows Platform and Windows Phone. Produced by Xamarin and Microsoft Press
Deploying Windows 10: Automating deployment by using System Center Configuration Manager
Published: February 2016|95 pages
Deploying Windows 10: Automating deployment by using System Center Configuration Manager
Andre Della Monica, Russ Rimmerman, Alessandro Cesarini, and Victor Silveira
Download hereGet a head start deploying Windows 10—with tips and best practices from experts in the field. This guide shows you how to deploy Windows 10 in an automated way without impacting end users by leveraging System Center Configuration Manager, which is the most used product to deploy Microsoft operating systems in the industry today


Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:37:00 +0000

Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials a free annual subscription.