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| Upcoming Live Webinars |
| Windows 7 |
| Description: |
Windows 7 is here. What should you do if you plan on replacing computers this year? What should you do if you have a new employee starting and need a new machine? Are there any differences between Windows 7 and Vista? Windows 7 and XP?
Webinar will cover:
- Windows Imaging and backup options in Windows 7
- User Account Control (UAC)
- Possible configuration changes
- Group Policy options
- Navigation
- Recommendations

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| Dates: |
January 26, 2010 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, ET
January 28, 2010 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, ET |
| Recorded Webinars |
| Exchange 2007 |
| Description: |
With the release of Exchange 2007 earlier this year, Microsoft has added some significant modifications and enhancements to their flagship mail server product. This webinar will highlight some of the key changes in Exchange 2007 and explain how it can impact your organization.
Learn:
- More resiliency with Cluster Continuous Replication
- Best Practices for upgrades
- New look of web based outlook
- New Hardware requirements
- New licensing requirements
- Role specific servers
Email education@safesystems.com to register.
Cost: $100 |
| Data Leakage |
| Description: |
iPods, USB Tokens, WebMail, lost or stolen laptops; all of these devices can be used to transfer private customer information outside of your institution. The impact of data leaks can be substantial and in extreme cases be terminal to an organization. This webinar on Data Leakage addresses how to stop the theft of sensitive information from your institution, such as: private customer information, social security numbers, financial transactions, and other sensitive information. The presentation will cover a variety of prevention techniques and discuss their relative effectiveness. Curt Frierson, EVP Technology and Education will conclude the presentation with a live question and answer session.
Email education@safesystems.com to register.
Cost: $100 |
| Making a List, Checking it Twice |
| Description: |
With 2007 soon coming to a close, what should you review from the past year? What should you check and what should your ISO check? Any upcoming technology that could make your job easier or your financial institution more secure?
- Yearly admin checklists
- Reports
Actions to take
- Information to give to your ISO
- How old is too old? What you may want to consider upgrading.
- What's the new technology on the horizon?
- What should you do with old equipment?
- Update security, email, remote access, laptop, internet access, cell phone policies
- Evaluate the effectiveness of your policies
- Prepare training
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| New Year's Resolutions |
| Description: |
Everyone makes New Year's resolutions; personal goals for the upcoming year. Don't forget your network's New Year's resolutions! We will cover some of the network items that Administrators should do, but may not have accomplished in the past. New year, new network!
Network resolutions you should make (and keep!):
- Forcing your users to shape up
- Put the bank on lockdown:
- Lock down permissions on folders
- Lock down desktops
- Disable downloads from internet
- Inventory software and hardware
- Quarterly walkthrough
- Email policy and enforcement
- New technologies to consider:
- Endpoint Security
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server 2008
- Mail Archival
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Windows Server 2008 |
| Description: |
Longhorn. Windows Server 2008. We've been hearing these terms for a long time. Microsoft's newest Server OS will finally be released in late February 2008. Now is the time to start preparing. This webinar will not focus on how to use Server 2008; rather, it will be a discussion on:
- What's new in Server 2008?
- When should you consider upgrading?
- What to do if buying new server soon.
- Costs associated with upgrading.
- Advantages and disadvantages of upgrading or implementing Server 2008 as one of your Domain Controllers.
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Vulnerability Assessments from Beginning to End |
| Description: |
Today's financial institutions are advised to perform an independent, external
vulnerability assessment on an annual basis. This webinar introduces key concepts and methodologies used to help increase the value of an assessment.
- What to know and ask when choosing a vendor
- What you can do to prepare for an external assessment
- How to read an assessment and qualify its findings
- Goals of a vulnerability assessment
- 3 crucial tasks to perform after an assessment
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Technology and Compliance: Ideas to Get Everyone on Board |
| Description: |
As a Network Administrator, you have worked hard to make your network compliant with federal regulations but also best practices; yet, you still find tellers writing down their passwords and storing them underneath their keyboards. What can you do to get
employees to realize the importance of compliance? This webinar will cover:
- What regulations state
- Employee responsibilities
- Ideas to get management on board
- Ideas to motivate employees to adhere to policies
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| What to do Before you Go on Vacation |
| Description: |
Summer is finally here and vacation is on everyone's mind. We will discuss several steps you should take before leaving the office to ensure your network will function smoothly without users calling your cell phone every twenty minutes. The webinar will include:
- Delegation of control to the appropriate users
- Making sure backups are working
- Opening up VPN for Safe Systems, if needed
- Checking and confirming OWA is working
- Confirming VPN is working
- Securing desk, drawers, etc
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Securing Laptops and Remote Devices |
| Description: |
Portable devices are everywhere. Most likely, someone at your bank is using one for work. If not, they will be in the near future. This webinar will focus on options and settings you have to secure portable devices. Some devices have or offer tracking options, remote wipe, encryption, etc. What settings are you using now? What options could you put in place to secure your customers' information?
We will discuss the following options in conjunction with laptops, Blackberries, Smartphones, and PDAs:
- Encryption
- Tracking Devices
- Remote Wipe
- Training
- Policies
- Settings
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Destruction and Disposal |
| Description: |
Customers' account paperwork, workstations, servers, backup media all potentially contain customer data. How does your bank dispose of these? Who is responsible? How much will it cost?
Disposal Policy
- Why do you need it?
- What should be included?
- What are your options?
- What are the repercussions?
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Can New Technology Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership? |
| Description: |
Magazines, newspapers, friends, family, everyone has an idea on how to save money. When it comes to technology, everyone knows how to save a buck. Whether you buy a computer from a local guy who builds them himself or use webmail instead of installing Office, there is a savings and most likely a cost. The homemade PC may be harder to find drivers or replacement parts or webmail may not offer all the features needed later on. Many people will tell you to implement Citrix or Virtual Machines, amongst other fads. These technologies have the potential to save you money but they also have the potential to cost you thousands. We will discuss several new technologies and how they may (or may not) save you money.
Pros and Cons of:
- Virtual Machines
- Windows Server 2008
- Improved Terminal Services
- VM capabilities
- Citrix
- Centralized processing
- Minimal clients
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Reducing the Cost of Data |
| Description: |
Have you ever considered the cost of your data? Data, at first glance, seems to have a very small expense. Data and files can be compared to water: water costs you when you use it but the amount per use is so low you don't really consider its cost. If you need to water your grass, you do. If you need to wash your clothes, you don't stop to think what one load will cost you. Data is often thought of in the same manner. You save a file to a server and don't care if you use it later or not. It didn't cost anything to save it there, right? You are right to a large degree; one useless file saved one time is low in incremental cost. But thousands of useless files saved over a 5 year period can add a rather large cost to the bottom line.
In this webinar we will discuss some of the costs involved and some ideas to minimize those costs. Along with cost savings, a new perspective and understanding of data/file management will be discussed.
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Popular Group Policy Settings |
| Description: |
Have you been meaning to enforce some rules on your network for awhile? Would you like to set the bank's logo as the standard wallpaper? Do you have users who play Solitaire instead of working? We can block access to games from the server. In this webinar we will discuss some of the most popular group policies along with a few hidden gems that you might want to use.
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Give the Gift of Documentation |
| Description: |
Are all your duties defined? What would your bank do if you were no longer able to work? Is there a set of instructions on how to perform your tasks? Would it take the bank one week, two months, or three years to get everything back under control? Most of us are not arrogant enough to think it would take three years for the bank to recover, but there is a chance that a couple of important steps or tasks might be overlooked for awhile.
What if a hard drive is found in the hands of a criminal? Do you have a way to determine where the leak came from? Was it taken from your bank? Trash? Recycle company?
Documentation is never fun but is crucial. We will discuss several processes that might seem mundane but need to be documented properly.
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| NetComply AVG |
| Description: |
By now you've probably heard about the new NetComply integrated antivirus product, AVG. You may be curious as to the differences between AVG and Symantec. Or, perhaps you've recently purchased NetComply AVG and want to learn how to navigate AVG within the NetComply console.
This webinar will cover information useful for both those interested in NetComply AVG and those looking to learn how to use NetComply AVG.
- Reasons Safe Systems switched
- Why you might want to consider AVG
- What are AVG's advantages?
- What are AVG's disadvantages?
- Once I'm on AVG, how do I navigate and manage?
- How do I install AVG on new machines?
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| NetComply Training |
| Description: |
Do you to take advantage of all that NetComply can offer? This webinar will show you how to navigate NetComply by using NetComply to assist you in the event of a hard drive failure.
The webinar will be divided into three segments: using NetComply to troubleshoot the hard drive failure as well as restore the PC, configuration options available in NetComply, and a question and answer period with Marshall Jones, NetComply Manager.
- Specifics to be covered during the hard drive failure segment:
- Using NetComply to troubleshoot the hard drive failure
- Receiving a NetComply notification regarding the failure
- Using NetComply to pull service tag and check the warranty
- Using NetComply to restore the hard drive
- Documenting software and printers installed on the PC
- Pulling license keys for software
- Patching the computer
- Pulling reports on the PC and the rest of your network
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| NetComply, a Year Later |
| Description: |
A year has passed since Safe Systems implemented NetComply. During this time, we have learned a lot, made some changes, and have been planning future NetComply enhancements. During the course of the webinar, we will discuss:
- Things that have changed since initial training
- Trends we have seen and ways to fix or get around common issues
- Upcoming changes and improvements
- Tips for getting the most out of NetComply
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Hosted Exchange: Is it Right for You? |
| Description: |
While you are continuing to manage the ever-growing complexities of your overall business and operations, email is quickly becoming even more mission critical to the growth and success of institutions. Each passing day finds financial institutions using email more frequently as part of their everyday business. In fact, the average employee receives 23 emails a day while the average manager receives greater than 100!
Implementing your own email solution offers some great advantages, but comes at a very high cost as you factor in the cost of hardware, licensing, upgrades, support, maintenance, and backups. Often these costs are unpredictable, making them difficult to budget from year-to-year.
Any institution looking to upgrade their mail system to the latest version of Exchange or is looking to transition to a more powerful email solution may find that Hosted Exchange is the perfect solution.
In this webinar, we will discuss:
- What Hosted Exchange is
- Advantages and Disadvantages
- Different types of offerings
- Costs
- Consideration points
- Cost comparison to in-house solutions
Email education@safesystems.com to register.
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| Remote Services |
| Description: |
Remote deposit capture devices are beneficial tools in helping to maximize time, productivity and valuable resources, but they can bring new risks to the table. Unlike employees using laptops outside of the office, you now have to worry about the risks associated with devices outside of your control connecting to your network. Your client has their own network and rules, while the institution has regulatory rules to abide by. In this webinar we will address:
- Rules and Regulations
- Best practices
- Ideas for success
- Safe Systems Solutions
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| The Principles of Business Continuity Testing |
| Description: |
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) continues to be a hot topic this year; BankInfoSecurity.com even lists BCP as one of examiners' key focuses in 2009. Many of you either implemented a new or modified your business continuity plan after the release of the BCP booklet in March 2008, but have you considered testing your business continuity plan? The new guidance requires testing to be a necessary component of the program and not just an afterthought.
This webinar will cover the following aspects of testing your business continuity plan:
- The 4 step structure of the new BCP guidance and how that defines the test scenarios
- Roles and responsibilities of participants
- Threat-based vs. scenario-based testing
- Testing goals
- Who, what, when, how and how often
- Types of test (table-top, walk through, etc.)
- Appropriate documentation
- Appropriate responses to findings
- What to report and to whom
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Information Security: Training Employees on Basic Principles |
| Description: |
We see more and more institutions struggling on how to appropriately train their employees on Information Security. Training can come in different forms and packages but the one constant is the fact that regulations and best practices dictate that all employees must receive yearly Information Security training. Whether you use an Internet based training and testing solution or perform your own training, we will examine topics that need to be addressed with your employees.
Presentation will cover the following:
- Who should be trained
- Why training is important
- Training options
- Material that should be covered
- Social engineering
- Clean desk
- Safe computer practices
- Safe Internet practices
- Other guidance from the FFIEC handbook
- Testing of employees
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| A Look Back: Review of the First Three Quarters of 2009 |
| Description: |
Tightening budgets, social networking, smishing, a resurgence in viruses/malware, Windows 7, going green. These have all made headlines in 2009. In this webinar we will take 30 minutes to look at these issues and a few others.
We will examine:
- Social networking
- What are your options
- Pro's and cons
- Smishing
- What it is
- What, if anything, you can do
- A few small changes that could affect the bottom line
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| The 10 Scariest Problems That Can Occur on Your Network and How to Avoid Them |
| Description: |
Being in charge of a network is a scary job. With viruses, power outages, worms, system failure, plus more dangers lurking around every corner, it's enough to spook anyone! We'll help face your fears about 10 of the scariest problems that can occur on your network by showing you how to avoid the problems, so being in charge of the network will actually be a "treat". Learn how to prevent:
- A virus outbreak
- A dead server
- An unpatched system
- Plus 7 more "scary" problems!
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |
| Risk Assessments for Business Continuity Planning |
| Description: |
“The risk assessment step is critical and has significant bearing on whether business continuity planning efforts will be successful.”
FFIEC, Business Continuity Planning Booklet
March 2008
This webinar will cover:
- How to evaluate the Business Impact Analysis using various threat scenarios
- How to analyze threats based on their impact
- Prioritizing potential disruptions based on their severity
- What are auditors & examiners looking for in a Risk Assessment
Email education@safesystems.com to register. |