About NCLGISA
NCLGISA is an association of North Carolina local government information technology professionals. Its purpose is to assist its members in sharing experiences and ideas and in undertaking cooperative efforts intended to achieve the association’s goal of improving the effectiveness of local government information systems. The association is a state chapter of GMIS, an Association of Government IT Leaders.
NCLGISA offers multiple training opportunities to its members including technology training, business-skill courses, and two annual technology symposiums.
Monday, September 7th, Carolina Advanced Digital offices will be closed in observance of Labor Day.
Carolina Advanced Digital recently announced its new partnership with industry leader Fortinet for enterprise-class network security solutions.
Join us in this short technical introduction to Fortinet and its award-winning security portfolio including FortiGate NGFWs, and see why our engineering team signed off on Fortinet’s solution as a best-of-breed. Fortinet is the #1 leader in the industry for number of units shipped.
Carolina Advanced Digital and Fortinet are both engineering-focused, and our strong complementary corporate culture is a driving force in this successful partnership.
Discussion Points:
- Fortinet’s background
- Notable customers, partners, awards, certifications
- CyberThreat Alliance and intelligence sharing
- In-house labs and research
- Threat Map http://threatmap.fortiguard.com/
- What makes a firewall “next generation”
- ASIC technology and portfolio
- Bundles and offerings
- Free Cyber Threat Assessment offer (limited time)
Security Engineering Team
Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc.
https://cadinc.com
919.460.1313 or 800.435.2212
About NCLGISA
NCLGISA is an association of North Carolina local government information technology professionals. Its purpose is to assist its members in sharing experiences and ideas and in undertaking cooperative efforts intended to achieve the association’s goal of improving the effectiveness of local government information systems. The association is a state chapter of GMIS, an Association of Government IT Leaders.
NCLGISA offers multiple training opportunities to its members including technology training, business-skill courses, and two annual technology symposiums.
See what the buzz is about! If you haven’t heard of Mist (now a Juniper company) you should join us Tuesday, May 19th for a free half-day bootcamp on the new Mist technology including topics on security, remote access, and more. I’ve highlighted a few of our team’s recommended don’t-miss sessions in bold for you.
Carolina Advanced Digital is a Mist Masters partner. Join us for this half-day bootcamp featuring everything you need to know to break free from the shackles of your legacy network architecture.
- 15 engaging and entertaining workshops
- Jam-packed with FREE GEAR! We’re giving away a free AP + other prizes at every “drill”
- Bonus: Send us your controller config and we’ll send you a Mist Cloud Org with YOUR config replicated, so you can see it in action by the end of the day. You’ll even get a free Mist AP with your newly created Org.* (restrictions apply)
Sessions include
• Transitioning Your Controller Network to cloud? (30min)
• Remote Worker 101 (30min)
• What is the Self-Driving Network? Let’s get real about it! (30min)
• API Automation Customer Examples – Day 0, Day 1, Day 2 (30min)
• Mist Architecture – A behind the scenes look at Mist cloud (30min)
• Marvis Deep Dive & Roadmap (30min)
• How to Measure Wireless Experience w/ Service Levels (30min)
• Wired Experience Service Levels & Roadmap (30min)
• EX ZTP & Configuration with Mist Dashboard (30min)
• Guest Access (15min)
• Policy Configurations and Interoperability with Aruba Clearpass and Cisco ISE (15min)
• Auto provisioning with Mist (15min)
• Bonjour Gateway & Other Exciting Roadmap Elements (15min)
• Wireless IDS / IPS Security (15min)
• AI-Powered Radio Resource Management (15min)
Join us for the first of our Thursday Tech Talk series with the Carolina Advanced Digital crew. In this episode, we have a friend from Mist joining us to talk about returning safely to work with contact and proximity tracing inside the organization, how it’s different than the public-private app partnerships, and then we’ll hop over to a demo of Mist’s AI-based Wi-Fi, show you what’s going on in our office, and offer a sneak peek at some upcoming news.
Carolina Advanced Digital is an exhibiting sponsor of the NCLGISA Fall Symposium! Visit our booth for fun, games, and prizes. Also check out our mini-sessions each day before and after the main content.
Tweet with us at @cadinc using event tag #nclgisa.
Wed, Oct 21st, 9:30-11:00am
Email and Endpoint Security mini-sessions
Roundtable discussion followed by technology updates on Barracuda email security and domain spoofing protection, plus SentinelOne next gen AV. Session hosted by Bre and partner engineers.
Thurs, Oct 22nd, 3:45-4:45pm
Troubleshooting with Mist and Location Services
Technology updates on Mist’s new “self-driving network” for wired and wireless AI-managed infrastructure, plus location services overview. Sessions presented by Jennifer and Shital from Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc.
Fri, Oct 23rd, 1:00-2:00pm
Zero Trust, Micro-segmentation, and NAC
Roundtable on network access control, dynamic segmentation, and zero trust networks followed by a demo of Fortinet FortiNAC. Hosted by Bre and Network Security Engineers from Carolina Advanced Digital.
eRate 2021: Mist & Juniper Solutions Overview for K12 (Wi-Fi, edge switches, and Marvis)
- Mist’s AI-driven network management and benefits of the cloud
- Deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting Wi-Fi with Mist cloud
- Comparison of pricing and features to other solutions and architectures (e.g. controller)
- Short intro to managing edge switches in the cloud
- Optional location services plus contact and proximity tracing (with built-in BLE array)
- Q&A
When it comes to securing an organization’s network infrastructure, there are so many questions to answer.
How secure is your Wi-Fi? How up to date is your security knowledge? Is my organization at risk?
Join Juniper Networks’ technical experts and Jennifer Minella, VP of Engineering & Security, at Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc. as they discuss security essentials every Wi-Fi engineer should know and unravel:
- What are the network security essentials every Wi-Fi pro should know?
- How can you prevent Wi-Fi network breaches?
- What are the Top 5 Wi-Fi attacks from pen testers?
We’ll also host a 15-minute panel between Jen and Juniper experts to discuss WPA3, the latest in Wi-Fi security.
- What is WPA3 and where is it today?
- When should I adopt WPA3 and what are the caveats?