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MSBISF Presents POWER R – R visualization in your Dashboards w/ Jason Virtue – Apr 27

MSBISF Presents POWER R – R visualization in your Dashboards w/ Jason Virtue – Apr 27

Power BI has great data visualizations and transformations which can be enriched by R. In 2015, Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics and has integrated it into its products from SQL Server to Azure. This session will provide a guided tour of R as it relates to Power BI. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn R capabilities in Power BI and see a few examples of R in action. This session is not just for Data Scientists but is also a great session for Business users too.

About Jason Virtue: BI Technology Solution Specialist at Microsoft for the Greater Southeast District. Jason has worked in the BI industry for 20 years for management consulting firms and Fortune 500 companies. He has worked as a BI architect and delivered multiple BI platforms across various organizations. His technology and real-world experience helps him advise client on best practices in the data warehouse industry.

 

Magic Leap Beefing Up

Magic Leap Beefing Up

Magic Leap is beefing up its ranks with artists and animators from an Oscar-winning studio and veteran game designers, in a sign that the $4.5 billion company believes content could play a critical role in the success of its highly-anticipated “mixed reality” product.

Magic Leap’s special glasses, which overlay detailed digital imagery on top of the real world, have wowed the tech industry’s leading personalities and attracted healthy investments from Google and Qualcomm, among others.

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$100K Top Job Pick: Senior Security Engineer –  Palm Beach, Florida

$100K Top Job Pick: Senior Security Engineer – Palm Beach, Florida

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Senior Security Engineer

DESCRIPTION

The Senior Security Engineer’s role is to serve as a security expert in network and/or platform (operating system) efforts, application development, database design, helping project teams comply with enterprise and IT security policies, industry regulations, contractual obligations, SOX, and security best practices. This is achieved by planning, designing, and developing security best practices then implementing. The candidate has used Juniper Security Analytics and QRadar, and has a keen knowledge of SIEM The Engineer will monitor all activity, kicks off alerts and notifies IT support team.

In addition, the Senior Security Engineer will participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of all security hardware, software, and communication links. This individual will also analyze and resolve security related problems in a timely and accurate fashion, and provide end-user training where required.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Analyzes business impact and exposure, based on emerging security threats, vulnerabilities and risks.
  • Researches, evaluates recommends, and implements information-security-related hardware and software, including developing business cases for security investments.
  • Contributes to the development and maintenance of the information security strategy.
  • Create security standards for firewalls, wireless access, other network devices, servers, systems, applications, and databases.
  • Researches, designs and advocates new technologies, architectures, and security products that will support security requirements for the enterprise and its customers, business partners and vendors.
  • Communicates security risks and solutions to business partners and IT staff.
  • Monitor security risk and troubleshoot problem areas as needed.
  • Installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of security software and equipment
    Assists in the coordination and completion of information security operations documentation.
  • Reports to management concerning residual risk, vulnerabilities and other security exposures, including misuse of information assets and noncompliance.
  • Advises security administrators on normal and exception-based processing of security authorization requests.
  • Penetration testing and vulnerability assessments: performs control and vulnerability assessments to identify control weaknesses and assess the effectiveness of existing controls, and recommends remedial action.
  • Responsible for the execution of risk assessment activities, analyzing theresults of audits (performed by other groups) to produce recommendations of acceptable risk and risk mitigation strategies.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering and/or 1-5 years’ equivalent work experience.
  • Scripting- Powershell scripting is ideal but open to different languages (e.g., BASH/PEARL).
  • Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISO, not required, but a plus
  • Strong knowledge of network security
  • Firewalls – Juniper / Cisco / Checkpoint (familiarity with one, Juniper is used onsite)
  • VPN & remote access
  • Strong knowledge of application and database security
  • The role of security within the SDLC
  • Database encryption
  • Application vulnerability discovery/assesment
  • Strong working knowledge of authentication and access control
  • Federated authentication. e.g. ADFS, SSO, SAML, OpenID
  • Active Directory security groups
  • Application roles
  • Strong working knowledge of operations and security monitoring tools
  • SEIM: Juniper STRM
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Orion Solarwinds
  • Antivirus
  • Strong troubleshooting skills

The following would be a definite plus

  • Experience in a large infrastructure or security implementation. i.e. multiple sites throughout a geographically dispersed area
  • Experience in a multi-datacenter environment
  • Understanding of application development

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

  • Highly self-motivated and directed; takes initiative.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Keen attention to detail.
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative
  • Willingness to learn and grow.
Call for Sponsors: SQL Saturday #627 – Jun 10

Call for Sponsors: SQL Saturday #627 – Jun 10

SQL Saturday #627 is taking place in South Florida on Saturday, Jun 10, 2016 at NSU’s Carl DeSantis Building, Ft. Lauderdale.

If you are interested in Sponsoring or Speaking at the event please follow the links below:

Call for Sponsors is still open: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/627/Sponsors.aspx

To Save your spot and Register: https://www.sqlsaturday.com/627/registernow.aspx

This is a 100% volunteer run event, if you’d like to help us out, please RSVP via this link: https://www.meetup.com/South-Florida-SQL-Server-User-Group/events/238843106/

For more info, contact: Diana Betancourt – dianambeta@gmail.com

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server Developers, Database & Business Intelligence professionals and those wanting to learn more about the SQL Server Data platform. Admittance to this event is FREE (Lunch fee is only $10) all other costs are covered by donations and sponsorships. Please register soon as seating is limited, and let your friends and colleagues know about the event.

The event will start at 8:30am sharp with a Keynote and WIT panel (auditorium), doors open at 7:30am. Please come early to get a free breakfast and your bag. A limited number of bags will be available.

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Free Golf Shirts and Member Discounts – 5th Annual SFTA Cinco De Mayo Golf Festival + Membership Offer – May 5

Free Golf Shirts and Member Discounts – 5th Annual SFTA Cinco De Mayo Golf Festival + Membership Offer – May 5

5th Annual SFTA Golf Tournament

You are invited to Join The SFTA for Cinco De Mayo themed 5th Annual Golf Tournament. Celebrating the wonderful diversity of our region, we’ll be incorporating a colorful Cinco De Mayo Festival theme throughout the event.

Individual Player Packages Starting at $125, Foursomes $500

In appreciation for your participation, we would like to offer you the SFTA Individual Membership package for the unbelievable price of only $100 – that’s a whopping 50% off the normal price of $200.

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Calling all Sponsors!

This year’s Golf Event is in aid of the SFTA’s Charity portfolio fund and will be supporting several South Florida organizations.

We are offering loads of brand popping sponsorship opportunities to help you get noticed. Whether you’re a seasoned campaigner or a newcomer wanting to break-through, we have packages priced just right.

When you commit to being a sponsor you are supporting the SFTA’s Charity Portfolio Fund.

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We have a tremendous selection of sponsorship opportunities to set your brand on alight.

Let’s Play Golf!

Foursome $500
Includes Golf for 4, lunch and awards reception.

Individual $125
Includes Golf for 1, lunch and awards reception.

Our event includes:

Breakfast
Roaming Drinks Carts
Golf Cart and all fees
4-person scramble
Catered luncheon and awards reception

Agenda

7:30am Check-in
8:00am Tee-Time
12:00pm to 2:00pm Lunch

Contests

Longest Drive
Closest to the Pin
Putting Contest
Mulligans Available