Information Security Expert Thomas Schinder to Visit Moscow and Speak at Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011
The main wealth of any conference is speakers who present interesting, relevant topics. And the Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011 conference brought together the best of them. About these world-class specialists who will speak before the conference participants, we will discuss this series of articles.
One of Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011 's keynote speakers is Thomas Shinder , an expert in information security, Microsoft ISA Server products, and the Microsoft Forefront family of enterprise-level security tools.
Today, Thomas Schinder is a lead engineer on one of Microsoft's development teams. The product, which Thomas’s team is developing, is called Unified Access Gateway, a tool for providing secure remote access to business applications within the Forefront family. Unified Access Gateway allows you to deploy a secure VPN network with SSL support and security through the built-in firewall.
It is curious that Thomas has a deep medical education, which he received at the universities of Berkeley, Illinois, Texas in the USA. He spent three years specializing in the University of Health and Science, Oregon, USA. Thomas began his career in the IT industry in the early 1990s, working as a trainer, writer, and consultant for several Fortune 500 companies, including FINA Oil, Lucent Technologies, and Sealand Container Corporation. In 2000, Thomas became the editor and moderator of the site http://www.isaserver.org , which later turned into a leading resource dedicated to ISA Server. In December 2001, Thomas received Most Valued Professional (MVP) status for his contribution to the development of the ISA Server community.
For 13 years, since 1997, Thomas Schinder has worked at TACTEAM, which today provides training and consulting for various companies on topics of network technologies and IT security. Thomas is an active writer and has written many books during his creative life, for example:
- Deploying Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010
- Deploying Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010
- The Best Damn Firewall Book Period, Second Edition
- Deploying Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
- Dr. Tom Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004
- Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks
- Dr. Tom Shinder's ISA Server 2006 Migration Guide
In December 2009, Thomas became a Microsoft employee, joining the Unified Access Gateway team as a senior technical editor.
Thomas is an interesting speaker who has a lot of knowledge on information security and software protection and willingly shares knowledge with a technical audience. You can get acquainted with Thomas's reports on Channel9 , where some of his speeches at Microsoft events are posted:
- Secure Endpoint- DirectAccess and Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, the Complete
- Advanced Edge Security- Closing the SSL Threat Highway and Moving to Virtualized Security
- A 360-Degree View of Microsoft Forefront TMG and UAG
- Comprehensive Security for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007- What's Not In the Box
The conference will be held in Moscow from November 9 to 10, 2011. Registration for the first Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011 conference is now open.