Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, San Francisco Chapter
April/May 2005
| Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, San Francisco Chapter April/May 2005 |
The May meeting is on Wednesday, May 18, 2005, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Elephant & Castle in San Francisco's financial district. For details about the location and instructions for purchasing tickets, visit www.stc-sf.org/stc-meetings.htm.
Mark Kadrich, Senior Scientist at Sygate Technologies, will speak about fundamental issues in network security, including emerging technologies, risks, and management. His presentation begins with a discussion of network security basics and then proceeds to a discussion of regulatory compliance. The second half of the presentation will analyze state of the art security technologies and solutions, with an emphasis on how enterprises can effectively manage network security.
Mark Kadrich has over 20 years experience in the network security industry. His strengths are in systems level design, policy generation, and risk management. Kadrich is a CISSP, holds a BS in Management Information Systems, University of Phoenix, and degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Memphis, 1979. Publications that he has contributed to include TCP Unleashed, Publish Magazine, Planet IT, and The Black Hat Briefings.
Kadrich is presently a senior scientist with Sygate Technologies, where he supports long-term product development for future security trends and manages government certification efforts. He has held CTO and CSO level positions at LDT Systems, Counterpane Internet Security, Conxion Corp., and International Network Services.
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