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The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.
This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.
Join Carolina Advanced Digital and HP engineering teams to discuss the latest networking technologies announced at Interop, including the HP 5400R with new v3 modules and OpenFlow support for SDN, HP’s 6th generation ASIC, and Smart Rate multi-gig ports for 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless support.
Technical Topics Covered
– Network Visualizer SDN app- Integrates with AD to speed up troubleshooting and eliminate the need for mac-IP user correlation. Plus updates to Network Protection and Network Optimizer SDN apps.
– New 6th Gen ASIC- Provides 4x better throughput and 3x lower latency compared to the Cisco Catalyst 4507R-E.
– HP 5400R Chassis- overview of the new 5400R, offering the redundancy of the 8200 for the price of 5400. Overview of interoperability, migration path and enhancements.
– Smart Rate multi-gigabit ports- Provide 1Gbps, 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps and 10Gbps on a single wired interface for enhanced 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless support.
– 5400 v3 modules- New 40GbE and QSFP support, MACsec for link encryption, enhanced QoS, DLDP, OpenFlow enhancements and Distributed Trunking enhancements. Overview of interoperability and performance upgrades.
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
The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.
This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.
Join our partner Fortinet for an in-depth four hour technical training followed by a network cocktail reception.
Carolina Advanced Digital is a Platinum Fortinet Partner offering consulting and integration of a breadth of security solutions.
Agenda
10:30am- Registration on the FortiExpress
11:00am-3:00pm- 5.4 Boot Camp Training; Customers and Partners Welcome; Lunch will be served (boxed or catered inside truck)
3:00pm-5:00pm – Networking Cocktail Reception at Brier Creek Beer Garden with appetizers (other local venue)
FortiOS 5.4 delivers Faster Time to Resolution through visibility and control enhancements, new security integrations and services, and performance boosting improvements to enable internal segmentation firewall deployments.
Seats are limited!
Section 1 – Basics
• TFTP Boot Process
• Switching changes in FortiOS
• New FlatUI overview and VDOM changes
• Transparent vs NAT mode changes
• Lab
Section 2 – Policy
• Policy changes and enhancements
• The New Internet Services Database- ISDB
• Revamped Traffic Shaping
• Vwire
• SSL Inspection
• Lab
Section 3 – ATP
• Lifecycle of a Virus
• Compact Pattern Recognition Language (CPRL)
• Proxy Mode vs Flow Mode
• ATP Integration
• Botnet Mitigation
• Test Your Metal
• Lab
Section 4 – Advanced
• FortiView
• ADVPN
• DNS Profiles
• WAF
• Link Load Balancing
• Lab
**Please bring a laptop with wired ethernet port, DB9 serial port and terminal software.