[PLUG] Re: [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] PASA Meeting Tuesday, 18 Feb 2003 (2nd announcement)

[Bill McGair]

Hi-

So the meeting is at tripwire?

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 19:40, Wil Cooley wrote:
> PASA, the Portland Area Sys Admins, invites you to our next meeting to
> be held next Tuesday, the 18th of February with Tripwire Security. 
> Please visit our meetings page at and RSVP so we can have an estimate of
> attendance.  The RSVP is NOT mandatory!
> 
> http://pasa.portland.or.us/meetings (The RSVP code is new, so if it
> breaks, please send a message to rsvp at pasa.portland.or.us.)
> 
> 
>       * 7:00 - 7:30 Pizza / Welcome / Tripwire background
>       * 7:30 - 8:00 Product overview
>                 Tripwire for Servers / Manager
>                 Managing change in a chaotic environment
>                 Presented by Joseph Wheeler - Sr. Systems Engineer
>       * 8:00 - 8:30 Product overview
>                 Tripwire for Network Devices
>                 The solution for managing diverse network devices
>                 Presented by The Bender - Sr. Mixologist
>                 
> About Tripwire
> 
> Joseph Wheeler spent four years with Symantec Corporation providing
> technical support for products such as pcANYWHERE and developing
> innovative ways to get customers to use online technical resources. In
> the past four years with Tripwire he moved from the initial support team
> to a systems engineering role. His current duties take him on flights
> around the globe supporting Tripwire's numerous parners and customer
> base, all the while searching for the most elusive of exotic beverages.
> 
> Tripwire(tm) Integrity Assurance solutions ensure the security and
> availability of servers and network devices, while enabling increased
> efficiencies and control over IT infrastructure across enterprises and
> government agencies worldwide. The software establishes a baseline of
> data in its desired state, detects and reports any changes to the
> baseline, enabling rapid discovery and recovery when an undesired change
> occurs. Tripwire identifies change, whether accidental or malicious,
> from outside or within, and is the only way to know for certain that
> your data is safe and remains uncompromised. Tripwire establishes the
> foundation for data security and ensures a safe, productive, stable IT
> environment.
> 
> Tripwire software is one of the most widely deployed and trusted
> integrity assurance solutions in the world. Dr. Eugene Spafford and Gene
> Kim created the initial release of Tripwire software in 1992 at Purdue
> University. That academic source release received widespread support and
> quickly became an essential part of best practices for corporate,
> education, and government security professionals. Since 1992, more than
> 1 million copies of Tripwire have been downloaded and over a 1/4 million
> are in active use.
> 
> Based in Portland, Oregon, Tripwire was founded by Gene Kim and W. Wyatt
> Starnes. A fast-growing, global technology company, Tripwire has been
> named to The Oregon Technology Fast 50 list and currently has operations
> in 15 countries around the world.
> 
> Directions can be found on the Tripwire website.
> http://www.tripwire.com/company/contacts/directions.cfm
> 
> About PASA
> 
> PASA is an informal support group for Portland Area Systems
> Administrators. We currently have members from the East and West Side,
> Vancouver, and Portland proper. Members are UNIX, NT, and Network
> administrators -- sometimes a combination of the three. Someday we may
> get around to building some structure into the group, but that hasn't
> happened yet. (Of course, there are no membership dues either.)
> 
> We are also an official USENIX SAGE local group.
> 
> 
> Wil
-- 
Bill McGair <bill at mcgair.com>