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SECCON Security Community

The SECCON community focuses on knowledge sharing and collaboration in Cybersecurity

SECCON NL is a podium for experts to share insights into the security, privacy, trust, and resilience of networks, systems, services, and applications as well as novel ways for dealing with vulnerabilities and mitigating sophisticated cyber-attacks.

Launch event: September 22, 2022 from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM CET at Muntgebouw Utrecht

The event offers the community an interactive learning experience to build new relations, and create fresh energy to deal with the many challenges in the cyber security domain.

More information: Hyperlink

Instructor Professional Development: online now in September

This quarter's GIPD Week starts on 11 September.

 Here are English sessions that fall under normal Europe times:

• DevNet Sandbox – Monday, 11 Sept 17:00 CEST/15:00 UTC
• Program Updates Option 2 – Tuesday, 12 Sept 13:00 CEST/11:00 UTC
• Zone Based Firewall – Wednesday, 13 Sept 8:00 CEST/6:00 UTC
• Packet Tracer Physical – Wednesday, 13 Sept 12:00 CEST/11:00 UTC
• Editing and Creating Packet Tracer Activities – Wednesday, 13 Sept 19:00 CEST/17:00 UTC
• An Intro to IS-IS – Thursday, 14 Sept 12:00 CEST/10:00 UTC
• Instructor Forum EMEAR – Thursday, 14 Sept 14:00 CEST/12:00 UTC

Other live Technical Sessions:

• SDN Fundamentals Part 2
• Instructor’s Guide to Teaching Introductory Python

To register for sessions go to http://cs.co/GIPD18

There are also offer localized sessions in Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Polish at comfortable times. 

All sessions are recorded and resources will be posted within 24 – 48 hours of the session.

Oracle Academy Pathways

In the PDF document below you will find relevant information about Oracle Academy:

• Workshops and Self-Study Offerings: Java, Databases
• Academic Curriculum & Training: Java, Databases, Application Development
• New curricula: Big Data Foundations, Cloud Computing Foundations
• Oracle Academy Pathways: benefits for Oracle Academy Members, Oracle Certifications

PDF

• Download Oracle Academy - Free Curriculum Training and Certification

CORNING FIBER EXPERIENCE

Together with our Corning Network IQ partners we are offering an essential Fiber Optics Installation Course. This is the same course as Corning offers to Fiber Optic Network Professionals.

Date: 28 June 2017
Location: Maak Haarlem, Oude Weg 95, 2031 CC Haarlem
Cost: 200 Euro (ex VAT)

Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/Z2gOfwb1hOYFYPUr1

 

Workshop Ethical Hacking - 2 June 2017

The workshop Ethical Hacking & Capture The Flag that we organized in Gent on 2 June 2017 was indeed quite interactive.

All particpants were involved in a capture the flag competition dealing with various security concepts & problems:

• White Hat
• Websites & SQL Injection
• Public/Private Certificates
• Passwords
• Wireless Networks
• Scanning
• Rubber Ducky
• Steganography
• Metasploit
• Kali

All photos: https://goo.gl/photos/u57hJm1aKSo4jh367

Using Apache Spark 2.0 to Analyze the City of San Francisco's Open Data

Published on Youtube 13 July 2016

Sameer Farooqui from Databricks delivers a hands-on tutorial using Spark SQL and DataFrames to retrieve insights and visualizations from datasets published by the City of San Francisco.  The labs are targeted for an audience with some general programming or SQL query experience, but little to no experience with Spark. Sameer will begin with some brief theory and lecture on Spark, before diving into several demos performing visualizations and analysis on calls made to the San Francsico Fire Department on July 4th.

----Topics-----
00:00:06 - Workshop Intro & Environment Setup
00:13:06 - Brief Intro to Spark
00:17:32 - Analysis Overview: SF Fire Department Calls for Service
00:23:22 - Analysis with PySpark DataFrames API
00:29:32 - Doing Date/Time Analysis
00:47:53 - Memory, Caching and Writing to Parquet
01:00:40 - SQL Queries
01:21:11 - Convert a Spark DataFrame to a Pandas DataFrame
-----Q & A-----
01:24:43 - Spark DataFrames vs. SQL: Pros and Cons?
01:26:57 - Workflow for Chaining Databricks notebooks into Pipeline?
01:30:27 - Is Spark 2.0 ready to use in production?

 

Follow Along:
+ Databricks Community Edition: https://databricks.com/try
+ Labs: https://bit.ly/sfopenlabs
+ Learning Material: https://bit.ly/sfopenreadalong

 

Global IPD Week May 2017

Throughout this week from 8 to 12 May 2017 there wil be 10 interesting webinars  for Cisco Networking Academies.
You can register for these sessions by going to https://1040239.netacad.com/courses/395402/pages/english#technical

To enroll in the Global IPD Week course and register for sessions go to: http://cs.co/GIPD17

Already enrolled?
-1- enter the course under I'm Learning
-2- register for the live sessions you want to join

List of Technical Sessions
SDN Fundamentals Part 1
Learn how to use DevNet
LoRaWAN – the go-to technology for Low Power Sensors
IoT Fundamentals prepares students for the Digital transformation
IoT Fundamentals: Connecting Things course introduction
IoT Fundamentals: Big Data and Analytics course introduction

ETHICAL HACKING EXPERIENCE - Gent - 2 juni 2017

Hacking is een veelkoppig monster met tentakels in alle subdomeinen van ICT. Tijdens deze workshop simuleren we een aantal mogelijke aanvalsvectoren die tegenwoordig courant gebruikt worden om computersystemen te compromitteren. Hands-on gaan deelnemers de acties van hackers simuleren om vanuit het perspectief van de aanvaller de problematiek te leren kennen. Uiteraard komen daarbij de mogelijke tegenmaatregelen uitgebreid aan bod.
REGISTRATIE: https://goo.gl/forms/uVIVjFfeDLuLuEeX2
EEN GRATIS PLAATS VOOR DE EERSTE DOCENT DIE BOEKT OP 1 JUNI 2017

Voorwaarden

We verwachten van deelnemers dat ze minstens over een basiskennis netwerken beschikken.

Het maximum aantal deelnemers is 18

Datum en uur

We beginnen op 2 juni om 9u, en stoppen om 17u.

Instructors

• Alexander De Smet
• Roel Van Steenberghe

Locatie

Technologiecampus Gent
Gebroeders de Smetstraat 1, 9000 Gent

Inhoud

Actuele threats met demonstraties voorbeelden
Capture the flag (hacking challenge). Alle deelnemers krijgen een score van de challenges die opgelost werden.

Topics

- Password cracking
- Rubber Ducky/ USB-hacking
- Sniffing
- OWASP Top 10

Prijs en registratie

De prijs per deelnemer bedraagt 100 euro (BTW in) voor Netacad Leden. Niet-leden: 200 euro
Drankjes en broodjes inbegrepen.
REGISTRATIE: https://goo.gl/forms/uVIVjFfeDLuLuEeX2

 

Uitnodiging – Brussels Smart City for Education - 8 maart 2017

Online Registratie: http://brussels.us15.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=648efecb575b5dc55e915edfc&id=e82965973d&e=f0c25fd676

 

Bericht van Bianca Debaets, Staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering

Geachte mevrouw, geachte heer,

Graag nodig ik u uit voor het event “Brussels Smart City for Education: leren en kennis delen in het digitale tijdperk”, dat past in een reeks evenementen geïnitieerd door het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest rond het project Brussels Smart City.

Facebook's Data Center Network

Facebook, Engineering Facebook's Data Center Network: Challenges and Limitations, 13 Feb 2015, 19:12, on YouTube
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkEbSbE8Fz0

TOPICS: Network design for the datacenter, new switches, performance

Contact: Najam Ahmad, VP Network Engineering

Cisco Talks - Chris Litster

You might learn useful background information when you listen to the Cisco Talks by Chris Litster. He was part of the development of many recent technologies.

TOPICS: OSI/ Switching/ Routing/ Datacenter/ Wireless/ VOIP/ Collaboration/ Security

URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfTdIEJiussOGwhCu5cBJXMbqD_cLdysu

 

Facebook's Data Center Fabric

Facebook's Data Center Fabric, 13 FEB 2015, Youtube, 37:36
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcI3fGEait0&t=329s
Speaker: Alexey Andreyev, Network Engineer, Facebook

TOPICS: Datacenter Design, Switches, Pods, Racks, Clusters, Splines, Fiber, Platforms, Automation

Infosessie Basistrajecten "Digitale Vaardigheden"

Inschrijvingsformulier URL: https://goo.gl/forms/KUwRAPbxC3VSJ3222

Op vrijdagnamiddag 27 januari 2017 plannen BiASC en NASC in Brussel een verkennende infosessie over nieuwe basistrajecten "digitale vaardigheden" voor betrokkenen uit hogescholen, CVO’s, secundair onderwijs en andere opleidingsinstituten. Het gaat over twee soorten trajecten: enerzijds voor ICT-opleidingen, anderzijds voor niet-ICT opleidingen.

LOCATIE
Odisee 
Lokaal E.1000
Warmoesberg 15
1000 Brussel

DOELGROEP
Deze bijeenkomst is bestemd voor docenten die voorop willen lopen en interesse hebben voor nieuwe basistrajecten "digitale vaardigheden". In Nederland is een nationaal project “Country Digitization” gestart. Daarbij is er veel aandacht voor digitale vaardigheden in normale (niet-ICT) opleidingen.

TOPICS

• Certificaat digitale vaardigheden (InAspire)
• Nieuw interactief cursusmateriaal voor beginners (Cisco Academy Programma)
• IT Certification Roadmap (CompTIA)
• Nieuw eBook "IT Fundamentals" (CompTIA)
• Nieuwe versie "IT Essentials" A+ (Cisco Academy Programma)
• Focuspunten Benelux-kennisdagen (eerste helft 2017) met ondersteuning van CompTIA

INSCHRIJVING (GRATIS VOOR LEDEN)
Indien je graag deelneemt aan deze verkennende meeting, vul dan aub het onderstaande formulier in.

Inschrijvingsformulier URL: https://goo.gl/forms/KUwRAPbxC3VSJ3222

Deze verkenningsdag is een uitwisselende netwerkactiviteit en heeft geen commerciële doeleinden. BiASC en NASC zijn onafhankelijke IT-netwerkorganisaties gericht op het onderwijs en met het doel kennis en best practices uit te wisselen.

Ken je iemand met interesse voor het onderwerp, dan kun je dit bericht aan hem/ haar doorsturen.

BiASC LABDAY | Cisco Networking Academy | 4 November 2016 | Resources

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For the LABDAY on 4 November participants are coming from: BiASC (3), Vives (1), Odisee (2),  HOGENT (1), UCLL, (2), Thomas More (2), CVO Lethas (2), CVO Leerstad (1), CVO Panta Rhei (1), Multimedi (3), Intec Brussel (2), Cevora (1)

TOPICS

Three topics were selected based on the choice of the particpants:

1. Network Traffic Management with QoS
2. Network Redundancy with HSRP
3. Network monitoring with SPAN & Wireshark

Postgraduate Programme | Information Systems Management | Cisco Certification | Corning | VMware | 2016-2017 | Brussels

In central Burssels Odisee University College offers a full Cisco Certification Networking Academy Programme including CCNA, Security and CCNP. This postgraduate programme of 30 to 60 credits starts early October 2016.

 

The contents of the course modules of the postgraduate programme in Information Systems Management have been aligned with new certification tracks of Cisco, VMware and Corning. Starting the first week of October, we welcome you in the Cisco labs at the Odisee Brussels Campus every Monday through Thursday from 18 tot 21pm.

Complete Course Description

• Download Postgraduate-degree-programme-information-systems-management-2016-2017

Course Modules

• Interconnecting Network Devices 1 (CCNA)
• Interconnecting Network Devices 2 (CCNA)
• Network Security (CCNA Specialist)
• Advanced Switching (CCNP)
• Advanced Routing (CCNP)
• Datacenter Technologies (VMWare, Corning)
• System & Network Design Case Study

New CCNA R&S Bridging Course Available

Technology is constantly evolving and CCNA certifications have been updated keeping up with the demands of today’s networking careers. 

Cisco Networking Academy is now offering  the CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging Course, which together with the CCNA R&S 5.X curriculum, is in full alignment with the CCNA R&S Certification.

All instructors have access to the English version of the CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging Course. Additional languages of French, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish will release in July and August. You have access to a free self-paced CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging Course that covers the new supplemental topics that are included in the new Certification Exams.

New Topics Aligning to Certification

BiASC LAB DAY | Brussels | 4 November 2016

To register for the Lab Day, fill in the form below or click http://goo.gl/forms/3MznaSs5InzS3AYq2

Cisco Global Cybersecurity Scholarship for Netacad Students

In the new digital era, organizations rely on cybersecurity to protect themselves, enable trust, move faster, add value, and grow. As the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks rises, organizations are experiencing a significant shortage of IT professionals with cybersecurity skills. To help close this security skills gap, Cisco is introducing the Global Cybersecurity Scholarship program. The new CCNA Cyber Ops certification and the CCIE Security revisions are designed to address the critical skills deficit, providing the job-ready knowledge needed to meet current and future challenges of network security.

Cisco wants to help successful candidates to get certified. Scholarship awards are available from August 1, 2016, until the end of July 2017. Candidates are offered training, mentoring, and certification for the skills needed in the security operations center (SOC) analyst job role. 

Scholarship Award Details

• The instructor-led e-learning training consists of two courses and two assessments, along with mentoring and coaching, representing a significant monetary investment in your career.
• Mentoring and exam preparation are included.
• The cost of all exam fees is included.

Qualifications

To be considered for a scholarship, applicants must have these qualifications:

General:

• At least 18 years old
• English proficiency

Basic competency (one or more of the following):

• Cisco certification (Cisco CCENT certification or higher)
• Relevant industry certification [(ISC)2, CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, GIAC, ISACA]
• Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA 1 and CCNA 2)

How to Prepare to teach the new CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging content

In the week  of 30 May to 3 June the next Cisco Netacad Global Instructor Professional Development (IPD) Week will be focusing on the new content for the CCNA R&S Bridging course. 

• Program Updates – Overview of the new CCNA R&S 6.0 certification and Bridging course, new product releases and information on NetAcad Advantage.
• Technical Sessions – CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging course technical topics
• Switch Stacking and LAN Security
• Troubleshooting IPv6 ACLs
• VTP and DTP: from cradle to grave
• Understanding QoS using IPSLA as a Tool
• Network Testing and Troubleshooting
• CDP/LLDP & NTP
• Instructor Forums – Find out more about the new CCNA R&S 6.0 Bridging course and how to import content into an existing CCNA R&S 5.X course.
• Localized sessions – We have expanded our offerings to include seven languages! Check out the sessions for Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish.

Please check out the Archives section of the Global IPD Week course.  There you will find additional materials and resources for the new CCNA R&S certification content.

We are once again including a Certificate of Attendance for participants and a sweepstakes.

To check out the agenda and register for sessions enroll now into our June Global IPD Week NetAcad Course at: https://1040239.netacad.com/enroll/AC8FJE. If you are already enrolled you can find the Global IPD Week June course on your Learn tab.

Beyond Routing & Switching Webinars

 

"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts" - Gene Spafford. 

With the advent of the Internet of Everything (IoE), which refers to the connecting of people, processes, data, and things; the need for network and cybersecurity will continue to increase. Here are three courses accompanied by webinars designed for self-study.

• Session 1: Network Security & Cybersecurity
• Session 2: Intro to Data Centers
• Session 3: Going Wireless: Wireless Communications and Technologies