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Breakfast & Webcast: "Security & the People Risk"
2018-10-24 07:30 - 09:30 UTC | TIQA, 327 Commercial St., Portland, 327 Commercial St, Portland, Maine
“Security and the People Risk”
A Special Breakfast Workshop and Webcast co-sponsored by TEVORA!
Wednesday, October 24th MTUG held our Fall Breakfast & Webcast — a live-event webcast at TIQA on the Portland Waterfront. The event began with breakfast treats and networking at 7:30am. The presentation was at 8am, finishing up with Q&A shortly before 9a.
Accessing the Webinar Only: The webinar broadcast of the presentation started at 8:00am, available online at MTUG’s Webex Portal mtug.webex.com.
Event Schedule:

7:30am: In-person Breakfast Event Opens with Breakfast/Coffee

8:00 – 9:00am: Presentation (with Online Webex broadcast), with Q&A time near end

9:00 – 9:30am: Networking

In this session, Frank Appunn discusses how enterprises can reduce one of the largest cybersecurity risk areas  People. Using existing systems, processes, and structures, plus a limited budget, to make significant improvements to your security posture.
This workshop draws on formal research completed in Maine, plus further research and content to provide a comprehensive review of improved practices regarding users of information systems. It considers employees, contractors, and consultant, together with extensions for customer and supplier access.
Attendees learned about current approaches to reduce people risks. There are immediate and low-cost ways to reduce risks, measure, and pinpoint areas where the organization can improve. The presentation then addresses the five specific strategies to make improvements.
MTUG thanks boardmember Mark Hopper for his assistance with coordinating the speaker and assisting with the facility for this session. MTUG also extends a huge thank you to our Breakfast Webcast Co-Sponsor, TEVORA! (www.tevora.com)
Location & Parking Details: TIQA is located along the Portland Waterfront, on Commercial Street, near the west end of the Old Port. Plenty of parking should be available on-street and in nearby lots on a first-come, first-served basis.

Augusta Peers & Beers co-sponsored by CGI
2018-10-10 16:30 - 18:30 | The Gin Mill above Riverside BBQ, Augusta, 302 Water St, Augusta, Maine, United States
MTUG hosts our AUGUSTA “Peers & Beers” – Co-Sponsored by CGI !
The event was WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm at The Gin Mill (above/behind Riverfront BBQ), 302 Water St., Augusta, Maine. MTUG extends a HUGE THANK YOU to our generous event co-sponsor, CGI!

The evening featured a brief “Tech Spotlight” presentation:
“How to implement egress filtering without becoming the most hated person in the organization.”
Archie Woodworth of Maine Medical Center delves into the art of implementing an egress filtering process without engendering scorn from your colleagues. This is why we provide the beer, folks!

MTUG also highlighted our other the upcoming 2018-19 season of informative educational webinars, Breakfast webinar event, and Peers & Beers events that run from fall through spring, covering a variety of business technology topics. We also announced the spring date of our Conference (June 13), and our Scholarship program!
MTUG is thankful for this event’s volunteer coordinator, board member John Foley, for arranging for our speaker.
MTUGs Peers and Beers events are a chance for IT professionals and enthusiasts to network in an informal setting while learning about a unique technology topic. There are usually four held each season — two in the fall and two in the spring — at locations across Maine.

Webinar: L.L.Bean & Google Cloud
2018-09-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Maine
Randy Dyer of L.L. Bean presents:
L.L. Bean and the Google Cloud Platform: “How a 106-year Old Retailer Modernizes Customer Experience Through Omnichannel Architecture“
Learn how LL Bean modernized its IT infrastructure by moving capabilities from its on premises systems to a cloud-native platform, improving customer satisfaction and IT efficiency across multiple sales channels.

Portland Peers & Beers - MTUG's Season Opener!
2018-08-22 16:30 - 18:30 | Bruno’s Restaurant & Tavern, Portland, 33 Allen Avenue, Portland, Maine, United States
The event was on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2018 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm at Bruno’s Tavern and Restaurant, 33 Allen Avenue, Portland, Maine. MTUG extends a HUGE THANK YOU to our generous event co-sponsor, Systems Engineering!
The evening featured a brief “Tech Spotlight” presentation:
“Transformation before Implementation
– A crafted continuous improvement cocktail!”
This talk focused on the main theme of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) that was hot in the 1990s, utilizing Lean Six Sigma that was popular in the 2000s and Agile Transformation that has taken hold in the last 10 years. The common theme that we tend to overlook is that all of these methodologies require a different mindset or a new way of looking at the value proposition. Most organizations miss this critical step before implementing new business process software.

BPR – begins with eliminating Non-Value-Added work, dated legacy policies, and manual efforts or paper based workflow.
Lean Six Sigma  Focus on the customer, improve and smooth the process flow, remove Non-Value-Added steps and waste.
Agile Transformation – Agile is an umbrella of values and principles that make up a framework to help organizations build agility. The basics behind an Agile Transformation is to ensure agility, collaboration, feedback loops, and to remove Non-Value-Added work by prioritizing with the business.
The common focus is on developing a more Business Centric approach to satisfy the critical success factors in your organization before implementing new software.

MTUG briefly demo’d their new website released this past winter, with new Job Board, Directory, and Tech Community Event posting tools to help MTUG promote
all the great events and initiatives tech groups across the state have for professionals to further their knowledge and networks.
Lastly, MTUG highlighted the upcoming 2018-19 season of informative educational webinars and Peers & Beers events that run from fall through spring,
and focus on a variety of business technology topics.
MTUGs Peers and Beers events are a chance for IT professionals and enthusiasts to network in an informal setting while learning about a unique technology
topic. There are usually four held each season — two in the fall and two in the spring — at locations across Maine.
