[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for TONIGHT (Thurs., August 16th, 2012)

[Lightner, Jeff]

So do that many ALErs normally turn up at Melton's afterwards or was last night and abberation due to the offer of free first round of appetizers?





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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Ruscetta
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 12:48 PM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for TONIGHT (Thurs., August 16th, 2012)

A quick reminder of TONIGHT'S ALE CENTRAL MTG.

The topic should be of wide interest, so please wrangle some colleagues and herd some cats to join us!
Please also share this invite (or our web link) with any and all appropriate IT organizations & professionals.
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The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting at 7:30pm on Thursday, August 16th, 2012 will be:

"GRANT BUT CONTROL, TRUST BUT VERIFY"
  with John E. Kimberly,
  SE Region Systems Engineer,
  Centrify Corporation

SYNOPSIS:
- The presentation will focus on the use of Active Directory to seamlessly provide access to non-Windows platforms, including most versions of UNIX / Linux, MAC's, iPhones, iPads and Androids, and then use specific Active Directory GPO's to control that access and manage the rights and elevated privileges on those systems.  Once complete, the administrator can easily validate access to systems, confirm elevated privileges and audit what users do with elevated privileges, thereby delivering data and system security, and regulatory compliance.

BIO:
- John E. Kimberly has a 32 year career in the UNIX and "open systems" world, in a wide variety of positions at companies like Dun & Bradstreet, Siemens Information Systems Worldwide and the Georgia Technology Authority.
He holds certifications in Redhat Linux as an RHCE, Sun Microsystems as a Hardware, Network and Systems Engineer, AIX Certified Specialist, VMWare, as well as experience in system security, threat prevention and platform hardening from SANS International.  For the past
15 years, he has been in the area of Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery, with additional focus in systems and data security.  Today, he is the Southeastern Region Sr. System Engineer for Centrify Corporation, which provides seamless integration for non-Windows platforms with Active Directory, for access, elevated privilege management, and license compliance auditing.

ABOUT CENTRIFY:  <http://www.centrify.com/>
- Centrify delivers integrated software and cloud-based solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems, mobile devices and applications by leveraging the infrastructure organizations already own.
>From the data center and into the cloud, more than 4000
organizations, including over 40% of the Fortune 50, rely on Centrify's identity consolidation and privilege management solutions to reduce IT expenses, strengthen security and meet license compliance requirements. Customers come to Centrify for a variety of services including:
- IT Security
- MAC Security Management
- IT License Compliance & Auditing
- Mobile Security Management
- UNIX & Linux Identity Management
- SAP & Web Single Sign On
- Windows Server Auditing
- SAMBA and NFSv4 integration

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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm Directions to Emory Law School can be found at <http://ale.org/?page_id=2>

As always, this announcement information is available on our web site:  <http://ale.org>

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in peace
Aaron Ruscetta
ALE Events Coordinator (etc)
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