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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.
IT Hot Topics Conference 2020 is being rescheduled due to COVID-19.
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.
Call for Speakers – https://www.papercall.io/itht2020
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?