2015 Spring

LATVIAN NETWORKING SCHOOL | MAY 29/30, 2015 | JURMALA, LATVIA

29^th of MAY

Opening speech, OptiCom

“IT: What’s New?”
Aivars Rudzišs, Member of the Board at OptiCom

“How BigData is helping inside the datacenter” (EN)
The presentation will focus on how today's datacenter is at best reactive to events and errors and how through the power of analytics we can more to a more predictive mode. We will present concretely what we do with HP Oneview and what we do together with existing solutions s already in place in the DC.
Abdel Regragui, Business Developer Manager for HP Software at Hewlett-Packard

“Security Challenges and Emerging Threats:
As with any changing landscape the threat one is one of the fastest moving in the cyber world. With the introduction of organized crime into the cybercrime world a new level of threat has become apparent. This is clearly seen in the latest security breaches and data losses around the world. In this presentation we attempt to understand the threat landscape and possible protection methods to minimize and help deal with breaches.” (EN)
Steve Mulhearn, Director Product Management; Responsible for Fortinet FortiDDoS solutions at Fortinet

“You write it, we catch it. Check Point Against 0-days.” (EN)
Laszlo Csosza, Threat Prevention Solutions Expert EMEA at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

“Trend Micro Q1/2015 Security Roundup: Bad Ads, Zero-Days, Cryptoransomware and Macro Malware” (EN)
First 3 months of 2015 has seen the return of old tricks in cybercrime with malvertising attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities and macro malware leveraging social engineering tactics. The number of Cryptoransomware infections are still rising, infection counts quadrupled from Q1/2014 to Q1/2015. Cryptoransomware infections make up almost half of the total ransomware volume found as of last quarter. How you can protect your organization against these attacks and stay safe in the fast changing modern threat landscape?
Kimmo Vesajoki, Country Manager, Finland & Baltics at Trend Micro

“Defense in Depth & Breath” with Avaya SDN Fx: how the changing user demands effects change in the provision of network, applications, and security concepts.” (EN)
Adrian Brookes, SDN Technologist - Corporate Consulting Director - Strategic Solutions Architecture at Avaya

“Web Application Firewall that comes with a Letter of Recommendation” (EN)
In its first-ever Web Application Firewall testing, NSS Labs reported that FortiWeb has been placed it in the Recommended section of their Web Application Firewall Security Value Map. Using advanced behavioral-based learning and threat detection, FortiWeb automatically learns about applications and their usage patterns, then actively monitors all activities to intercept and stop threats.
Mindaugas Kubilius, Security Expert at Fortinet

“VMware NSX, vSphere v6.0 and other news” (EN)
Darius Spaicys, Strategic Partner Business Manager Baltic at VMware

“Check Point’s best practices: tips & tricks” (LV)
IT Expert at OptiCom

“Latest HP 3PAR technology news” (LV)
Tarass Vercešuks, Pre-Sales Consultant HP Enterprise Servers & Storage at Hewlett-Packard

“VMware NSX technical demo” (LV)
IT Expert at OptiCom

“Veeam best practices: tips & tricks” (LV)
IT Expert at OptiCom

“Trend Micro Deep Security technical demo” (LV)
IT Expert at OptiCom

Discussion: “Which SDN is the BEST SDN?” (LV, RU)"

30^th of MAY

“Your wired and wireless world: Unified. Simplified.” (EN)
Hewlett-Packard representative

Antivirus Bypassed – What To Do To Protect User Machines?” (LV)
User Workstation attack vectors; user protection methods (proxy, anti-virus, IPS, FW, Sandbox); technical demonstration of anti-virus by-passing with latest signatures; attack with Sandbox „on” mode.
IT Expert at OptiCom

“IPv6: Hope or Armageddon?” (EN)
Zbigniew Jakubowski, Leading IT security & Networking consultant at Compendium (Poland)

“Major Technical News of VMware vSphere 6.0” (RU/EN)
Virtual Center, Virtual Volume & Other
Seva Semouchin, Technical Account Manager at VMware

“Storage performance? Not a problem anymore: Pernix technology overview & demo” (EN)
Frank Brix Pedersen, Systems Engineer at PernixData

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY: Zabbix monitoring deployment (LV)
Monitoring system - essential instrument for business capacity and process efficiency.
Oskars Krastiņš, Head of Information System, Networking, Security Maintenance Department at AAS Gjensidige Baltic