Just a last minute reminder - hope you can join us Tuesday night
for what looks like a very interesting meeting! Regards,

Dan Murray

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The Tuesday, May 14th meeting of the Rocky Mountain Internet Users
Group (RMIUG) will feature a panel discussion called "Network
Security in an Unsafe World." Join us as our expert panelists
help us understand the issues related to keeping networks secure
and what causes that security to be breeched at times. Even if
you're not directly responsible for network security in your work,
this panel promises to offer a fascinating glimpse into the mostly
unseen world of Internet security and the cat-and-mouse battles
between hackers and system administrators. As always, plenty of
time will be given for interactive Q&A, so bring lots of
questions.

Trent Hein (trent@...) and Ned McClain (ned@...),
founders of Applied Trust Engineering, will give a presentation
entitled "Beyond the Firewall: Completing the Security Model."
They will cover issues such as user education, security policy,
sysadmin procedures, security incident handling, vulnerability
testing, and software patching, which are necessary security measures
even when you have a firewall. These often-overlooked aspects of
security can make the difference between surviving a disaster and
being crushed by it. Trent and Ned recently teamed with other
industry experts to co-author the Linux Administration Handbook,
and we will be giving away a free copy at the meeting. Applied
Trust Engineering, based in Boulder, provides IT security and
infrastructure services.

Robert Gray (bob@...) founder of Boulder Labs and David
Clements (David.Clements@...), partner at Boulder Labs will
give a presentation on the security of wireless networks. Wireless
Networks are pervasive, and the speakers find that 80-90% of these
networks are wide open to anyone with a laptop and a wireless card.
For those networks which do enable Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
encryption, a series of attacks will usually break the encryption key,
thereby compromising the network. The speakers will show the results
(including a map!) of their "War Driving" experiment in Boulder, which
is a method used to find open networks in an area. Finally, they will
describe numerous precautions for securely deploying a Wireless Network.
Boulder Labs is a Colorado based, software consulting company with
expertise in embedded systems, Network Security, and System
Administration.

URL's of interest:
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Applied Trust Engineering, http://www.atrust.com/
Companion site to UNIX System Administration Handbook, co-authored
by Trent Hein, http://www.admin.com/
Boulder Labs, http://www.boulderlabs.com/
"Open networks vulnerable," Longmont Daily Times-Call,
http://www.longmontfyi.com/business2.htm#story5
"Finding networks in thin air," Daily Camera,
http://www.thedailycamera.com/business/tech/20bwire.html


The meeting is Tuesday, May 14th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm (with optional
6:30 pm start for refreshments and informal networking). The meeting
will be held at The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
at 1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to NCAR from the Boulder
Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take Table Mesa Drive west
towards the mountains for approximately 2.5 miles into the foothills.
NCAR is at the top of the hill. For door-to-door driving directions,
go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/ ), click on Driving
Directions, enter your starting address, NCAR's address, and voila!
Park in the NCAR lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard
to point you to meeting, which is held in the main auditorium, right
off the lobby. The meeting is free and open to the public, but we may
pass the hat to help defray expenses.

Our meeting location seats about 120 people. That is usually enough
room to accommodate all attendees, but it's impossible for us to
predict how many people will show up for any given meeting. Seating
is always on a first-come, first serve basis, and in the event of
more attendees than seats, we won't be able to admit additional
people into the auditorium after all seats are filled.

*** We'd like to give a big welcome to our new sponsor, ONEWARE
(http://www.ONEWARE.com) -- a Colorado-based software company that
provides semi-custom web-based applications, who is sponsoring the
RMIUG meeting minutes! ***

RMIUG also appreciates the ongoing sponsorship of food and beverages
by MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com). MicroStaff provides Creative
and Technical Talent for Web, Interactive Media, Marketing
Communications and Software Development projects.

Consultants and companies are invited to bring Internet-related
Product information, brochures, and business cards which will be
displayed on an information table.

There are email mailing lists set up for this group. To subscribe or
unsubscribe, see http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html You can also reach
the RMIUG "Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@.... Our web site
is at http://www.rmiug.org/

Tentative schedule of upcoming RMIUG meetings:
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July - Sorry, cancelled due to venue unavailability (stay tuned for
possible RMIUG "Segue (not Segway ;-) into Summer" BBQ)
September 10 - "Technology and the Internet in Colorado Politics"
November 12 - "Starting an Internet/Software Company Today"
Jan 2003 - "Nonprofits on the Net - A Web of Activism"
Mar 2003 - "Domain Update - Legal Issues & Technical Changes"
May 2003 - "Web Technology - What the Present and Future Holds"
July 2003 - "E-Learning: Did the Hype Ever Pan Out?"
Sep 2003 - "Instant Messaging vs. Email vs. Web"

(To suggest a topic, send your idea to rmiug-comm@...)