Course: Secure Programming: Developing Defensible Web Applications.
This class first demonstrates to developers how attackers create strategies to compromise applications in order to help students “think like an attacker.” The class then moves into demonstrating how the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) provides developers with the tools to successfully develop applications that are difficult or impossible to hack. This class is rich in hands-on opportunities giving developers a chance to see for themselves how attackers think, how the framework protects the application, as well as where it falls short. This course also satisfies section 6.5 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

When: November 19-21, 2013 (3 days) 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Where: University of Regina, Education Building Room 548

Cost: $1450.00 (The special University of Regina price has been extended to community members)

Full registration details and additional information (syllabus etc) can be found on the IT Training Solutions website

The Saskatoon Business College now accepts Microsoft Training Vouchers. Some of their courses available over the next few months include:

Oct 15-17, 2013 Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager(10748A)
 3 Day Course : $1,500.00 + GST, books included

Oct 21-25, 2013 Administering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager(10747)
 5 Day Course : $2,400.00 + GST, books included

Oct 21-25, 2013 Core Solutions of Lync Server 2013 (20336B)
 5 Day Course : $2,499.00 + GST, books included

Nov 26-28, 2013 Upgrading to MCSA Windows Server 2012(20417B)
 3 Day Course : $1,800.00 + GST, books included

Dec 2-6, 2013 Enterprise Voice & Online Service Lync Server 2013 (20337B)
 5 Day Course : $2,499.00 + GST, books included

Dec 9-13, 2013 ECompTIA Security + 5 Day Boot Camp (SY0-301)
 5 Day Course : $3,100.00 + GST, books included

For additional course listings visit their website.

Course: Project Management Professional (PMP) 5-day Training Program
This course provides a common platform to manage projects using a proven approach that is based on global best practice. Focusing on the globally accepted practices of project management recognized by the Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®), you will learn how to apply a standards-based approach to succeed in project management across a multitude of areas and industries.

When: September 16th - 20th, 2013

Where: Saskatoon Business College in Saskatoon

Cost: $2,400 (includes tax and textbooks)

For full course details or to register, check out the Saskatoon Business College website.

Course: Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Database 10775AB
This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2012 product features and tools related to maintaining a database. Also this course helps students prepare for Exam 70-462.

When: June 24th - 28th, 2013 from 8:30am to 4:30pm

Where: Saskatoon Business College in Saskatoon

Cost: $2,500 (includes tax and textbooks)

For full course details or to register, check out the Saskatoon Business College website.

• Learn an attack methodology and how the pen-tester (penetration tester) uses JavaScript within the test
• Study the art of reconnaissance, specifically targeted to Web applications
• Start the discovery phase with a focus on application/server-side discovery
• Flash objects and Java applets
• Exploitation

This local course will be offered in our multi-week format via the Mentor Program. Each week your local Mentor, Cliff Janzen will answer questions and assist you with hands-on labs and exercises during the class. Mentor courses give you the opportunity to participate in SANS training without the expense and inconvenience of travel or being out of the office during the workday.

The class wraps up with a Capture the Flag event where the students will be able to use the methodology and techniques explored during class to find and exploit the vulnerabilities within an intranet site.

Mentor: Cliff Janzen

Dates: The class runs weekly over 10 weeks, each Wednesday evening from 6pm until 8pm. It starts April 10th and ends June 12th, 2013.

Where: Co-operators Life on 1920 College Avenue in Regina

Cost: Tuition ranges from $3,700 to $3,950, depending on when you register.

When registering, enter the following promotional code DRIVE13 for a 15% discount.

For full course details or to register, check out the SANS Institute website.

We’re coming home! In October of 2012 Prairie Dev Con returns to where it all began: Regina, Saskatchewan!
And while we’re over seven months away, we’re already starting to plan for the event – and we need your help to make it the best Prairie Dev Con ever!
We’ve set up a *very* short survey asking what topics and workshops you’d like to see at the conference. We’ll also be drawing from survey submissions on May 1st for a free registration to the conference!
Just visit our online survey here to fill it out, that simple!

We’ll have more information on the Regina event in the coming months.

Bringing Saskatchewan’s future into focus
Saskatchewan’s economy is booming and growing like never before, but is it sustainable? The Saskatchewan 3.0 Summit was conceived to help our province maintain its current momentum by enhancing the understanding and accelerating the adoption of cutting-edge digital and social technologies.

Top international experts will introduce you to the extraordinary progress being made in other worldwide jurisdictions. They will provide insights on how we can build on our recent success and ensure a bright future for our province’s next generations.

For full details, or to register, check out the summit website.

Where: Queensbury Convention Centre

When: April 24-25, 2012

Cost: From $599 to $899, depending on affiliation and when you register

• Learn an attack methodology and how the pen-tester (penetration tester) uses JavaScript within the test
• Study the art of reconnaissance, specifically targeted to Web applications
• Start the discovery phase with a focus on application/server-side discovery
• Flash objects and Java applets
• Exploitation

This local course will be offered in our multi-week format via the Mentor Program. Each week your local Mentor, Cliff Janzen will answer questions and assist you with hands-on labs and exercises during the class. Mentor courses give you the opportunity to participate in SANS training without the expense and inconvenience of travel or being out of the office during the workday.

The class wraps up with a Capture the Flag event where the students will be able to use the methodology and techniques explored during class to find and exploit the vulnerabilities within an intranet site.

Mentor: Cliff Janzen

Dates: The class runs weekly over 10 weeks, each Wednesday evening from 6pm until 8pm. It starts April 25th and ends June 27th, 2012.

Where: Co-operators Life on 1920 College Avenue in Regina

Cost: Tuition ranges from $3,240 to $3,740, depending on when you register

When registering, you can choose to enter one of the following promotional codes:

• SEORG for a 10% discount available for Regina Technology Community members or
• MGIAC12 for a free GIAC Exam

For full course details or to register, check out the SANS Institute website.

*Please note this event is not hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Please join Imaginets for breakfast as you learn more about Microsoft® Office 365, the new way to think about productivity in the Cloud. Office 365 is the next step in bringing together the most trusted communications and collaboration products - Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Exchange Online and Lync.

Office 365 provides an unprecedented opportunity for organizations of all sizes to enhance the communication, collaboration and productivity of their users at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional on-premises solutions.

What is Cloud Computing?
What is new with Office 365?
Key benefits of Office 365
Integration of Office 365 In the Cloud with On-Premises Solutions Demonstration
Office 365 User Types and Pricing
Office 365 Discovery Quickstart
Hands on with the some of the latest End Point Technologies

Breakfast served at 8:30am with presentation's starting promptly at 9:00am.

Date: June 23, 2011 8:30 am - 11:00 am

Location:
Delta Hotel
1919 Saskatchewan Drive
Regina, SK

Cost: Free, includes breakfast.

Registration: http://eevent.com/imaginet/office-365-regina-launch-event

*Please note this event is not hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: Cyber Threats with McAfee & Seccuris

This seminar will focus on global cyber threat activity and how it has evolved over the past six years. Global cyber thought leaders will discuss its pattern of evolution and how its impact can no long be minimized and placed on the back burner of your business's strategy.

You will gain a deeper understanding of how cyber intelligence has evolved and perhaps more important, how the intention of threat activity, on a global scale, is being culturally legitimized as a feasible way to garner intelligence.

It is imperative that every executive in your organization understands the current cyber threat landscape and how security and control becomes the responsibility of every employee. By attending this session you will gain the knowledge required to educate your organization and protect it from the next cyber security threat

We'd love to have you join us!!!

Date: April 27, 2011 8:00 am -11:00 am

Location:
Hotel Saskatchewan
2125 Victoria Ave.
Regina, SK

Cost: Free, includes breakfast.

Registration: Register on the McAfee website.

*Please note this event is not hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: Supercharge Your Unit Tests

Want to become a unit tester powerhouse and supercharge your unit tests? Learn how to write better tests and stop fighting with your code.

Struggle with legacy code? Think your code is untestable? Don’t want to change the way you code? Just want to treat your code like you would a sports car? Just as you would supercharge your sports car to make it run faster and more powerful, discover new ways to supercharge your code with Isolator.

Attend this webinar and you will learn:

• How to supercharge your unit tests
• How to test the untestable
• How to mock (fake) any dependency (SharePoint, databases, file systems)
• Making unit tests effective using powerful assertions

Host: Typemock

Date: Thursday, March 31st 2011, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Location: Webinar

Cost: Free

Registration: Register for the webinar.

*Please note this event is not hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: Discover How to Prevent Software Bugs

Imagine you can protect your code from recurring bugs!

Everyone hates software bugs but most people don’t know that over 90% of software bugs are preventable, recurring bugs that can be pinpointed and fixed in the development process.

During this webinar, you will discover how to prevent regression bugs with Armadillo, a new automated testing tool.

Attend this webinar and you will learn:

• How to prevent regression bugs, without changing the way you code
• Why it’s important to prevent bugs as you’re coding
• How to prevent bugs from creeping in unnoticed

Host: Typemock

Date: Wednesday, March 30th 2011, 7:00 AM - 7:30 AM

Location: Webinar

Cost: Free

Registration: Register for the webinar.

*Please note this event is not hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: Introducing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Join the experts from Adxstudio, Microsoft, Brown and Acrodex and be the first to learn how Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 can help you:

• boost sales and improve marketing
• enrich customer service interactions
• accelerate line of business application development (xRM)
• reduce overhead by moving to the cloud

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is designed to help.

Join us on Wednesday March 16th at the Regina Inn  from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm, followed by a lunch and expo.

Date:
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
8:00 am to 12:00 pm

Location:
Regina Inn, Cannington Room, 2nd Floor
1975 Broad Street, Regina SK Canada

Cost: Proudly sponsored by Adxstudio

Registration: Check out the Adxstudio website for more information.

*Please note this event is not hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: SecurityCore Fundamentals

In today's information intensive world keeping your organization's information secure, while meeting ever evolving business needs, is a constant challenge. Understanding the fundamentals – concepts; issues; vulnerabilities, threats & risks; governance; compliance; and, best practices, is the first steps in developing and incorporating good security processes into your daily operation.

Some topics covered:

• What is Information Security?
• What are the Risks and Threats to your Information?
• How can you protect your Information?
• The practical Information Security practices that you must know.

Check out the Seccuris site for the course brochure.

Date: January 20th-21th, 2011

Location: 2445 Broad St., Regina SK

Cost: $595

Registration: Tracy Harvey-Funk at Seccuris Education: 1 (866) 644-8442 ext 238 or tharvey-funk@seccuris.com

*Please note this is a vendor event, not an event hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: Open House

Come try our new Microsoft X-Box Kinect (or foosball, if you want to kick it old-school). We want to get to know the Regina community (and you to know us!)

Date: Tuesday, December 7 from 4:30 to 7:00

Location: 5th Floor, 2221 Cornwall St, Regina, SK

Cost: Free, Drinks and food provided

Registration: on Eventbrite

UPDATE: This course has been cancelled.

*Please note this event is not hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA)

Seccuris Education, our instruction provides tools and business solutions to improve your information security posture.

This course will provide a solid understanding of the field of Information Security Management, with emphasis on risk mitigation, incident handling, business continuity, and effective program management.

For more information on our education go to http://www.seccuris.com/training.html.

Date: Dec 6-9, 2010

Location: Regina Inn, 1975 Broad Street, Regina, SK

Cost: $1,495

Registration: tharvey-funk@seccuris.com or 1 (866) 644-8442 ext 238

*Please note this is a vendor event, not an event hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: Found it! Improving Enterprise Search on your Public Facing Website

How much is poor search costing your business?

Most websites have search engines. Many actually make life harder for visitors. As analyst Gerry McGovern noted recently: "The quality of search on many websites is awful. Most organizations would simply not countenance having their reception area in the mess that their search engine is in. Yet far more people pass through their search engine every day than through their reception."

When presented with a content-rich website, a significant portion of users will immediately turn to the search engine to seek out desired content. If the search-term used is vague or misspelled, users can be presented with disappointing results: a list of irrelevant content or in some cases, no results at all. Website users are a fickle bunch; if their search is unsuccessful, they will abandon the process and the site altogether.

During this executive briefing, Microsoft and non~linear creations will discuss best practices of sites that now meet users' expectations, yield relevant search results and offer visitors a more dynamic interface that keeps them engaged longer and increases revenue potential. We will also focus on user friendly approaches to presenting complex search results from image previews of results, highlighted photo galleries, and integrated video players.

There is limited seating, so register today.

Target Audience: This session is designed for, CEO's, CIO's, Directors, Business Managers and IT Managers.

Date: Wednesday, October 27th, 2010, 8:30 - 11:30 AM

Location: Ramada Hotel & Convention Centre, 1818 Victoria Avenue, Regina, SK

Cost: Free, Courtesy of Non Linear Creations and Microsoft

Registration: http://www.rsvpportal.com/microsoft/non_linear/register_regina.html

*Please note this is a vendor event, not an event hosted by the Regina Technology Community.

Topic: Horizonfest 2010

Description: Horizonfest 2010 offers an opportunity for business and technology owners, managers and decision makers to gain valuable insight from IT industry leaders.
Converging technologies are enabling organizations in profound ways. Improving efficiencies and reducing costs are just two of the numerous benefits to adopting some of the best-in-class products and solutions you’ll see at this informative and engaging event. Let Horizonfest enable you to outperform your competition!

When: October 5, 2010

Where: McKenzie Art Gallery

Cost: Free

For Registration and More information: www.horizonfest.ca

Topic: Energize IT: Anything is Possible.

EnergizeIT is brought to you by Microsoft and the Regina Technology Community. Throughout the evening event, you will hear from the community, Microsoft advisors as we talk about Windows Azure, Office System 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Mobile. It’s evident the Microsoft-based platform presents a bevy of opportunities for all of us. Whether you are a Developer or an IT Pro, knowing how these will impact you is critical, especially in the new economic reality.

This evening community event will help you understand Microsoft’s Cloud Services vision. You will find out about the possibilities that these technologies help realize and the value that they can bring to your organization and yourself.

Microsoft advisors will explore the Microsoft-based platform through a scenario that will demonstrate different points of view - from developer to IT Pro, from consumer to the information worker. From the client to the cloud, this fun-filled demo-intensive exploration will excite you about the possibilities of the Microsoft-based platform. You’ll see how to build next generation applications with technology like Silverlight, .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. You will find out how to consume those applications on a variety of devices, like mobile devices running Windows Phone, netbooks and PCs running Windows 7, as well as the web. You will learn about how the Microsoft-based platform allows you to connect with your colleagues no matter where you are –office, coffee shops, or your own living room. You’ll also see how you and your colleagues can be even more productive with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Where:
Casino Regina - Telegraph Room, 2nd Floor Mezzanine
Parking at the casino is available for a fee.
There is free parking is available at the Cornwall parking lot; park on floors 7 or 8. You can then take the elevator to floor 2 which will take you outside Sears. Cross the catwalk and the Telegraph Room is the first room on the mezzanine.

When:
Tuesday Evening, April 20

Schedule:
5:30 pm - Food & social
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Presentation

Cost:
Sponsored by Microsoft

Registration:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032441906&Culture=en-CA

Please register online if you are attending the dinner buffet.

Topic: Deployment Deep Dive on Windows 7

Are you running Windows XP? Are you feeling the pressure of creating a deployment plan? Have no fear! Leveraging learning’s from two Windows 7 early adopters this session will give you the skills you need to proceed with your own deployment. The session will focus on free Windows 7 deployment planning and deployment tools that customize operating system packages and automate deployment planning and network deployments seamlessly. We will dive right into:

• How to use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) tool to identify your current hardware and application inventory.


• How to use the Windows Automated Install Kit (WAIK) to build a customized image for your organization.


• How to use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to build, deploy and maintain Windows installation images.


• How to migrate the end users profile from their current installation to the Windows 7 installation using the User State Migration Toolkit (USMT).


• How to integrate MDT and Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to perform Lite Touch installations of Windows 7.

Finally we will look at how we can leverage the various tools to solve any application compatibility issues you might encounter. We will look at how you can overcome common obstacles using the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT), or larger obstacles using Windows XP Mode and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) and even how you can leverage Application Virtualization (App-V) to streamline application deployment and ensure all your applications work!

Speaker:
Rodney Buike
IT Pro Advisor, Microsoft Canada

Location:
Queensbury Convention Centre, Salon 2

When:
Tuesday Evening, March 16th

Schedule:
6:00 pm - Food & social
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm - Presentation

Cost:
Sponsored by Microsoft

Registration:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032436876&Culture=en-CA