Brunswick Peers & Beers -- CyberSecurity Liability Requirements

4:30pm - 6:30pm , Nomad at Fort Andross (formerly Frontier Cafe), 14 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME

 Presentation Slides and Sample Insurance Applications Available 

Our first Brunswick Peers & Beers! Almost 40 people registered for MTUG's December Peers & Beers at Nomad at the historic Fort Andross in Brunswick to for networking, learning, and refreshments, sponsored for the MTUG audience by Arctic Wolf ! 

Our Tech Spotlight presenters Peter Luciano and Dennis Tuttle of Cross...

Portland Peers & Beers -- a CyberSecurity User Group & Professional Education mixer!

4:30pm - 6:30pm , Bruno's Restaurant & Tavern, 33 Allen Ave., Portland, ME 04103

Make Cybersecurity Awareness Month last All Year Long!

At this first "Peers & Beers" in years MTUG featured "speed presentations" from local Cybersecurity User Groups and Security Education Programs. Each of 7 groups had a chance for a brief...

2022 I.T. Summit & Tradeshow

7:30am-4:00pm , Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring Street, Portland, ME Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring Street, Portland, Maine 004101

Please Join Us for our 2022 I.T. Summit & Tradeshow!

Our 35th year! The Annual I.T. Summit & Tradeshow is scheduled for Thursday, May 26, 2022, with a goal of bringing together approximately 400 tech professionals, 50 exhibitors, 12 competitively-selected workshops. Many of exhibitors, sponsors, and workshop presenters have already registered...

Cybersecurity Update: Laws, Global Risks Abroad & At Home, Threat Hunting & Prevention

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Download Available 

Please join MTUG as we host an update on the latest threats and cybersecurity considerations from security expert Frank Appunn!  
[Our 2nd panelist, Erika Voss, could not be present today due to unforeseen circumstances.]

Frank Appunn, a professor of cybersecurity and tech, and security expert with the Maine Chapter...

ExecTech Webinar #2 - Adding No Code / Low Code Solutions to your IT Toolkit

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Download Available 

Please join William Wade as he discusses the recent trend for “Low Code” or “No Code" software tools. In particular, he explores two of the more popular tools - Zapier and Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) and how they fit within an organization. Additionally, he will look at...

ExecTech Webinar #1 - Learn to Hack Modern Websites with OWASP Juice Shop

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Links to Slide Deck & Resources Available 

Ben Allen -- an experienced penetration testing manager and force behind the local hacker / security learning collaborative DC207 -- gives the audience an understanding of what security testing looks like for web applications, as well as some basics on how to perform web application security testing, and...

Canceled: 2021 I.T. Summit & Tradeshow

7:30am-4:00pm , Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring Street, Portland, ME Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring Street, Portland, Maine 004101

The 2021 MTUG I.T. Summit & Tradeshow has been canceled due to the recent surge from the Delta variant of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the unexpected strain on local health and school systems. Please see our full statement on the MTUG Summit event page here.

Our 34th Annual I.T. Summit &...

Mid-Summer Webinar - Accelerating Tech Internships in Maine

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video & Download (slides) Available 

Tech industry internships are a vital way to help new career professionals step into the industry and shape their education to better serve their future employers.

What's involved with establishing technology internships? And what can it do for your organization, and the quality and stability of your future...

Early-Summer Webinar: How to Create an Incident Response Exercise

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video & Download (slides) Available 

Jockel Carter and Gary Soucy, active members of the Maine Chapter of ISC(2), discuss how to build an Incident Response exercise for your organization. Such exercises are key to understanding how prepared you and your team are for the next, inevitable breach or other incident.

This session explores:

Webinar: Managing Complexity in Tech Projects

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video Available 

In this casual, interactive discussion, Kevin Callahan of Interaction Agility Inc., along with panelists Jennifer Thomson of Liberty Mutual Insurance, and Kathy Warren of the Maine Department of Education, will focus on the audience's favorite capacity planning and prioritization topics in the dynamo of tech project management.

Audience members...

Webinar: The SolarWinds Hack - What We Know, and What to Look for Next

11:00am to Noon , Online at MTUG Webex portal: http://mtug.webex.com

 Downloads (slide decks) Available 

In this session, industry experts Douglas Mauro of FirstLight and Frank Appunn of Infragard Maine Chapter, pull back the veil on the SolarWinds hack.

Douglas explains what happened in the SolarWinds "back door" attack, explore its extent, and get into the details of its methods. He'll discuss how...

Webinar: Decision-Making in a Crisis - Preparing for Your Next Tech Disaster

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video & Download Available 

Jamie Popkin, digital technology strategist and former vice president and research fellow at Gartner Inc. will bring the MTUG audience through a tabletop exercise of rapid decision-making using the OODA Loop approach in IT.

The acceleration of digital business has been turbo-charged by the COVID pandemic. Innovative and...

Webinar: Legal Considerations for Technology Contracting

11am to Noonish , Online at MTUG's Webex portal - http://mtug.webex.com

 Video & Download (slides) Available 

As businesses rely more and more on third party software, data, and technology in order to function, those third parties have become increasingly critical to ongoing operations, security, and legal compliance. In this presentation, attorneys Kyle Glover (Pierce Atwood) and Kara Alesi (IDEXX) discuss the legal considerations in...

ExecTech Webinar: Tech User Groups - Catalyzing the Maine Tech Community

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Download & Video Available 

This MTUG webinar panel introduces several regional User Group leads, and explores the purpose and activities of tech user groups in Maine. 

Panelists from 4 regional User Groups discuss the role of tech groups in the Maine technology community. Panelists include: Larry Cushing who runs the SMMUG users group...

ExecTech Webinar: Cyber Threats vs. Humans & the Future

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video & Downloads Available 

Cyber threats are increasingly targeting individual users in small to large organizations – initiating attacks via social engineering, spear phishing, or even attacking through their trusted suppliers. Technology based counter threats are trying, but sometimes failing, to keep up with the constant pace of threats change. More future...

ExecTech Webinar: HACK the SHIP - the Security, Functionality, Usability Triangle Gone Wrong

11am to Noon ,

 Video & Download Available 

MTUG thanks Josh Moss and Jockel Carter for bringing this unique presentation to the MTUG audience: "HACK the SHIP: An overview of Shipboard ICS Cybersecurity... OR... the Security, Functionality, Usability Triangle Gone Wrong."

In this session, presenter Joshua Moss explores the lack of applied security across the Maritime...

Late-Summer Webinar: Upgrading Your Scripting Toolkit

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video & Downloads Available 

Long time MTUG community participant and tech consultant William Wade discusses his perspective and key tips in using a variety of scripting tools and environments, including PowerShell, Visual Studio, Source Control (such as GIT), and more.

This session's goal is to introduce these tools --...

Mid-Summer Webinar: Maine IT Micro?Credentials

11am to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video, Download & Links Available 

A diverse panel discusses the development and implementation of a series of aligned micro-credential pathways in digital literacy and technology using a unified state framework.

We will discuss:

• What are Maine employer’s IT and foundational skill needs?
• How can we implement a series of micro-credential pathways...

Early-Summer Webinar: Business Continuity in the Cloud - Disaster Recovery as a Service

11:00 to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video & Download Available 

Organizations are responsible for implementing technologies to enable the business while keeping critical data, applications and processes secure and running 24x7. Would failure to prepare for technological or natural disaster disrupt your business and lead to financial catastrophe? Is cloud based virtualization DR technologies for your servers,...

Webinar: Maine's Internet Infrastructure, Libraries & Workforce - the Impact of COVID-19, and the July Bond Vote

11:00 to Noon , Online at http://mtug.webex.com

 Video & Downloads Available 

This webinar presentation discusses Maine's Internet Infrastructure as it has been endeavored to be made available through the Maine Library System. How connectivity concerns have been amplified during the pandemic, and how our perspective on high speed / high quality internet infrastructure will be different going forward, are...

CANCELED: 2020 Annual Summit & Tradeshow

7:30am to 4:00pm , Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, ME