Presentation Title:

Creating a Private Cloud in a School Environment - Matthew Marcos, Adam Beavis

Presenter Organisation:

Trinity Grammar School & VMware

Session Type:

Technical Showcase

Presentation Description:

This presentation will cover our journey into implementing a VMware based Private Cloud at Trinity Grammar School, Kew. The goal is to show, share and educate on the things we have learned over the last 18 months in taking this technology from an idea to a production quality solution. From the hardware aspects through to the software and virtualised services many different challenges presented themselves. This presentation will offer various insights and strategies to help overcome these problems and what the future holds for implementing vSphere 4.0, VMware’s latest cloud computing solution.

Presentation Title:

Symantec – Secure....Manage....Recover - Marcus Gunn

Presenter Organisation:

Symantec

Session Type:

Technical Showcase

Presentation Description:

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 enables customers to restore complete Windows systems in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments, with new functionality to automate physical to virtual conversions for immediate system recovery. Join Symantec as they demonstrate the rapid recovery that can be made from a simulated failure.

Presentation Title:

Understanding and Blocking the Evolving Bot - Gary Spiteri

Presenter Organisation:

WatchGuard Technologies

Session Type:

Technical Showcase

Presentation Description:

Our session surveys bot innovations, adding depth to the existing knowledge of IT pros so they can generate well-informed layered defense strategies that repel bots.

Botnets use modular code, swapping modules to evolve rapidly. The Internet always hosts a toxic mix of new and old bots. Understanding new bots requires understanding the classic IRC bot, so we portray IRC bots in depth. Our animated "Magic White Board" depicts bot architecture in video. We explain bot workings with screen captures of source code from an in-the-wild bot, Rxbot. In live demo, our bot client compromises a victim PC via drive-by download, shown from the victim's and attacker's view. In video, we show the attacker's view (on an IRC channel) as one zombied PC recruits a bot army.

With that foundation established, we then detail the innovations botmasters mounted from 2007 until now. We categorize bots by the protocols they use for their Command and Control (C&C) channel.

For HTTP bots, our example is Zunker. Possibly the first bot with a back-end GUI, Zunker uses PHP and CGI scripts to enable optimal exploitation of zombies. Screen captures show how a botmaster can sort and view victims by country of origin; amount of RAM; amount of hard drive space; etc, in Zunker's slick graphics.

We next highlight MayDay, which can use three C&C protocols: HTTP, TCP, or ICMP ports (encrypted). MayDay pioneered the technique of refusing to let new recruits join the botnet outside of narrow time windows, rebuffing researchers.

For P2P bots, our stand-in is Storm. A video shows how P2P bots differ from IRC bots. After listing some of Storm's advances (image-based spam, strike back), we drill into Storm's evasion skills. Our Magic White Board clarifies how DNS Fast Flux and Double Flux work. We show how automated re-packing and re-crypting helps bots evade AV. We explain AV neutering (your AV processes are running, but don't see Storm).

To explain mass SQL injection bots, we use ASProx. IT pros pay lip service to SQL injection but may not understand it, so we demonstrate manual attacks in live demos. Then we tell how such attacks are automated. This section closes with three classic defenses against SQL injection.

We conclude with bot countermeasures, explaining effective refinements to the use of firewalls/UTMs; anti-virus; patching; log monitoring; and application layer inspection. All presentation materials, including the videos, will be made available to attendees via free downloads.

Presentation Title:

Emerging Trends in IT Panel Forum - Darryl Watson, Travis Smith

Presenter Organisation:

All Saints College & Expanding Learning Horizons

Session Type:

IT Management Insight Session

Presentation Description:

The purpose of these sessions is for Managers and ICT specialists to discuss how we could be using the advances, that have just emerged or are changing quickly, to improve learning outcomes. These are not the things we already have ingrained into teaching and learning but to look at the emerging end of the ICT spectrum. To discuss how to creatively use/provide these services with a view to enabling the Curriculum delivery specialists ease of use and guidance with their uptake.

These sessions are an opportunity to share ideas, everyone is welcome to be part of the discussion. We will be looking for some keen players in each of the fields to help by taking a leading role on the panels. If you want some ideas come and join us, and if you have some plans come and talk about them.

Panel Discussion will focus around Netbook/ Mini Notebooks, 802.11n Wireless networking, iPods, Dual touch screens, Handheld Internet Devices, Cloud Computing, Windows 7, Video Conferencing, Virtualisation, Twitter and Social Networking, You Tube and other personal video distribution service, Google Docs, Google Wave.

Presentation Title:

Top 10 HP ProCurve Turn Ons - Fotios Kotsiopoulos

Presenter Organisation:

ProCurve Networking by HP

Session Type:

Hands on Training - Lab

Presentation Description:

Find out how to get the most out of your ProCurve network infrastructure by implementing features like VLANs, IP Routing, Spanning Tree in a lab session.

Presentation Title:

Vmware Mastery: It’s Easier Than It Looks - Adam Jones

Presenter Organisation:

VMware Certified Trainer

Session Type:

Hands on Training - Lab

Presentation Description:

Focussing on the enterprise features on VMware like DRS and HA, you will see that installation, management of VMware and leveraging all of it’s really awesome features for the enterprise are not as difficult or scary as you might expect.

Presentation Title:

Fortigate Unified Threat Management – What’s is It & how can we benefit from using it - Andrew Rosewarne

Presenter Organisation:

Whitegold Distribution

Session Type:

Hand on Training - Lab

Presentation Description:

This session will be a practical session where users will get some exposure to the FortiGate UTM device some of the things that will be covered in the practical session will be:

• Configuration interfaces
• Configuration of user groups (Local, LDAP, Radius)
• Configure firewall objects, (address, service, schedule, Virtual IP Addresses, etc)
• IPS, AV, Grayware
• Configure 2 protection profiles, (i.e. incoming and outgoing examples)
• VPN Options and how to set up basic configurations (SSL, IPSEC)
• Create outgoing, incoming and VPN policies

Presentation Title:

Disruptive Innovation - Glenn Gore

Presenter Organisation:

Melbourne IT

Session Type:

Featured Presentation

Presentation Description:

Cloud Computing is one of the biggest changes in how services are delivered to customers within the IT industry today. Melbourne IT has been providing innovative online solutions to customers for more than a decade, and is a recognised thought leader in how cloud computing will affect the industry, customers and the Internet itself. Glenn will provide a behind the scenes glimpse of how Melbourne IT starts with an idea, that is disruptive to our industry, and develops that idea into a number of new capabilities that our customers are using today and the future.

Presentation Title:

Managed Services - Adam Ryan

Presenter Organisation:

Offload IT / Computelec

Session Type:

Featured Presentation

Presentation Description:

Offload IT – a business initiative from Computelec – is a new managed services solution that securely supplements, reports on, or comprehensively protects and manages important elements of your school’s IT systems.

Offload IT managed services continuously monitor your school’s server infrastructure, identify potential problems, and provide engineering services that resolve unexpected events.

In this session, I will discuss Computelec’s plans for the future of school infrastructure management, and how to address the pressures that modern educational institutions face delivering critical technology functions to your school.

Presentation Title:

Redefining "Classroom" - Andrew Douch

Presenter Organisation:

Microsoft World Innovative Teacher & Wanganui Park Secondary College, Shepparton, VIC

Session Type:

Featured Presentation

Presentation Description:

In this presentation, Andrew will explain why he believes it is necessary for teachers to adopt new approaches to teaching a new generation of learners. In the last decade, informal communication between young people has been revolutionized by social networking sites, instant messaging, mobile phones and numerous other technologies that give them instant access to information and people any time, anywhere. Schools have largely failed to respond appropriately to these fundamental societal changes. Andrew will show how any teacher is able to change the way he or she communicates with students, taking advantage of the very same digital communication tools that Gen-Y students use. From podcasting to online forums to mobile phones and social networking, this presentation will explore the potential in digital communication technologies to challenge where, when and how class members interact, and even who the class members are.

Andrew is adamant in his belief that teachers in this century don't need 'computer skills' to transform their classrooms but a willingness to question their 20th Century paradigms and rethink their role as an educator in a world where information is available on-demand, communication is instantaneous and many of the tasks teachers used to perform can be automated. He will show real-world examples of the ways in which teachers have used the ideas he promotes across a range of subjects and year levels to make a profound impact on student engagement and learning outcomes.

Presentation Title:

The social impact of technology and how to harness its potential for good. - Janice Atkin

Presenter Organisation:

Inspire Foundation

Session Type:

Featured Presentation

Presentation Description:

Technology is a major part of young people's lives today. Much of their social life is conducted over the Internet. Understanding what young people do online and how the power of online technologies can be harnessed to engage them in their learning will be the theme of this presentation. The presentation will give you insights into the nature of young people's online world, as well as practical strategies and ideas on how to support young people to stay safe online.

Presentation Title:

Virtual Environments - Matthew Marcos

Presenter Organisation:

Trinity Grammar School, VIC

Session Type:

Featured Presentation

Presentation Description:

Details Coming Soon

Presentation Title:

Viruses and Encryption: Friends or Enemies? - Paul Ducklin

Presenter Organisation:

Sophos

Session Type:

Featured Presentation

Presentation Description:

Cryptographic tools can help to defend you from viruses and other malware. Paradoxically, however, the Bad Guys can use cryptography in their viruses to strengthen their attack. (Indeed, the defensive/offensive duality of encryption software led some countries to regulate it even more strictly, at least until recently, than personal firearms!)

This talk will take you through a live demonstration of the history of malware -- from the Cascade virus in the mid-1980s to the LuckySploit attack in 2009 -- to show how encryption and viruses have been interwoven in the past 20 years. We will also try to predict what offensive uses of cryptography we might see in the future.

Come and have a chuckle at some of the encryption-related blunders made by virus writers over the years. But also be prepared to learn from some of the errors made by the Good Guys, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

Presentation Title:

Classroom Management Software that Works for IT! - Matt Ferrell, Laura Konkle

Presenter Organisation:

DyKnow

Session Type:

Breakout Session

Presentation Description:

Now that computers are a constant in education, IT professionals are often left searching for tools to help educators manage the digital classroom. While teachers need visibility and control, IT professionals are looking to save time and resources with an easy-to-manage, scalable solution. Join this session to learn how DyKnow Vision^®, interactive education software, and DyKnow Monitor^®, classroom management software, fits the needs of both educators and IT professionals.

With tools like Application Blocker, URL Filter, Remote Control, File Transfer, Computer Lockdown and Real-time Screenshots, educators can quickly see and manage what students are doing with their computers and quickly focus attention on learning.

With DyKnow’s Data Integration Tool and Central Server design, IT professionals can easily make changes to one or hundreds of machines from any computer, anytime-anywhere, without changing your existing Internet Infrastructure. Did we mention DyKnow has proven success in large wireless environments?

Presenters: Matt Ferrell and Laura Konkle

Presentation Title:

HP ProCurve Mobility Wireless 802.11n - Fotios Kotsiopoulos

Presenter Organisation:

ProCurve Networking by HP

Session Type:

Breakout Session

Presentation Description:

A detailed look at the current status of the soon to be released 802.11n high throughput wireless technology.

Presentation Title:

What happens after Web 2.0? Emerging trends on the Internet? - Glenn Gore

Presenter Organisation:

Melbourne IT

Session Type:

Breakout Session

Presentation Description:

An interactive workshop where we explore how location aware devices, rich media, semantic data, cloud services and other next generation technologies will affect both the Infrastructure of the Internet and how people interact with each other using the Internet. How will these advances affect us in our day to day lives? Will these advances actually improve things or is it just innovation for innovations sake?

Presentation Title:

What’s on offer with Windows 7 - James Bannan

Presenter Organisation:

St Leonards College, VIC

Session Type:

Breakout Session

Presentation Description:

Demonstration of new features in Windows 7 of particular interest to school environments, including application and presentation virtualisation features supported by Windows Server 2008 R2