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Microsoft Community Days: “Safeguarding your Applications” – 28 Feb

February 23, 2009Eventscommunity, Events, Microsoft, PUG, security, user groupsNavin Kabra

What: A half-day event by the Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group (PUG) on security issues in safeguarding your applications
When: Saturday, 28th February, 9:45am-3:30pm
Where: Kalpa Banquet and Party Hall, E-101, Kumar Business Court, near SKC Mall, Mukundnagar, Pune
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. Register here.

Details – Safeguarding your applications

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Fundamentals of Security: 40 Minutes
Common attack patterns, data classification, and security data in storage/in transit

Authentication: 40 Minutes
HTTP Basic/Digest/Kerberos, forms authentication, and .NET framework identities and principles

Authorization: 40 minutes
Common authorization techniques, principles of least privilege net role based security, and code access security

Input Handling: 120 Minutes
Cross-site scripting (XSS), persistent XSS, non-persistent XSS, SQL injection, one-click attacks, XML and XPATH injection, canonicalization issues, file upload/creation, and exception management

Logging & Auditing: 20 minutes

Q&A: 30 Minutes

About the Speaker – Sachin Rawat

Sachin Rawat is the co-founder of Crypsis, which offers consulting and training in the field of Information Security, Hi-Performance Computing (CUDA) and Software Development. Crypsis has offerings built around Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle which includes Threat Modeling, Design Review, Code Review, Deployment Review and Pen-testing. Crypsis offers Vulnerability Assessment and Security Audit Services for the IT infrastructure of organizations and is developing a product addressing visual media piracy detection.

Sachin has earlier worked as a Security Engineer with the Microsoft ACE
Team, where he worked on application security assessment for LOB applications.

He holds a B.Tech. (CSE) from IIIT-Hyderabad and has cleared ISC2’s CISSP certification exam. He was the only student among the top 10 winners of Security Shootout Competition organized by Microsoft, which had over 30,000 participants across India.

About Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group

”’Pune User Group”’ is a local user group of developers interested in Microsoft technologies and platforms. It has an informational portal with very active forums, it holds monthly user group meetings, an annual developers conference, and it also has a number of special interest groups.

For more details see the PuneTech wiki profile of PUG.

For other tech events coming up in Pune, see the PuneTech calendar. See also other PuneTech articles tagged: PUG, and Microsoft.

Best practices against hacking (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
F-Secure provides details on Web site breach (news.cnet.com)
Concise bulletproofing guide (blogs.adobe.com)
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and other Concepts in Cryptography for CISSP Exam (packtpub.com)
Acad DevCon: Microsoft Technologies Conference for Students – 18 Jan (punetech.com)

Reasons why proto.in should be in Pune

January 28, 2009Pune Citycommunity, entrepreneurs, Events, proto6, protodotin, pune, startupsNavin Kabra

Proto.in is the premiere conference for startups in India. The most recent edition was held in Bangalore last week. The next one is now being planned and the organizers are asking whether it should be in Pune or Mumbai.

Instead of making it simply a twitter popularity contest, I say let’s give them a host of compelling reasons why it must be Pune. In the comments to this post below, please suggest some good reasons why the next proto.in should be in Pune. I’ll collate the top reasons and create a new post out of them and forward it to the proto organizers.

To get you started, here are my reasons:

Pune the undiscovered country: If you go to a typical startup event (proto, headstart) in Bangalore/Mumbai/Delhi, you’ll run into the same faces over and over again. Pune is different. There is a lot that Pune has to offer that the rest of the ecosystem is not aware of (some examples below). Now would be a good time for proto to start the process of reaching out beyond the top 3 metros.
Pune is a hotbed of activity: Just look at the tech events calendar for Pune to get an idea of the various and varied activities. Multiple pages of them – note the Page 2, Page 3 etc at the bottom of that page.
Participation! PHPCamp, which was organized in and by Pune, attracted over 720 people from all over India. That’s right, 720 actual participants. It was 1000+ for Microsoft’s DevCon (organizers had to actually send some people back because there was just no space at the venue) and Acad DevCon. WATBlog Wednesday got its largest participation in the Pune edition (50% more than Mumbai and Bangalore editions).
Students: The future of the startup ecosystem is in the hands of students, and in our ability to get them interested in startups. And what better place to start that than Pune. We have boat loads of students. Who are enthusiastic and motivated. Gnunify a Free and Open Source conference organied mostly by students of Pune is expected to attract 600+ students.

These are the first few reasons that come to my mind. Please add to the list.

Update:

See the comments section for many more great reasons. A couple that I wanted to highlight right away:

Atul points out that: Pune has very few professional VC offices. VCs visiting Pune in the context of Proto.in might find obvious funding choices that they would have otherwise missed on.
Enthusiastic and others point out: It’s cheaper to organize it in Pune
Santosh points out: Pune OpenCoffee Club (550+) energetic Volunteers, Startups, and Entrepreneurs
and also: Doing it in Pune will definitely draw out techies in numbers for Startup Shotgun
and finally: Pune weather is far better than Bombay weather

And there are more below. And more keep coming in. If you are reading this in an email or RSS feed, please visit the website to see the full list of comments. You can subscribe to PuneTech comments feed (RSS, or email) too.

Top 5 reasons why students should gate-crash Drupal Camp India – Jan 31

January 27, 2009Eventsbarcamp, community, drupal, Events, PHP, unconference, user groupsNavin Kabra

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On Saturday, 31st Jan, from 10am to 5pm, 100s of Drupal enthusiasts will descend upon SICSR. It is a free (un)conference for Drupal developers, and entry was given a first-come-first-served basis. But as of this writing, Drupal Camp is full. However, Tarun Chandel, the god-father of all Pune unconferences, is encouraging everyone to gate-crash, and land up there, with or without registrations, and PuneTech fully supports him, (and so does Amit Kumar Singh, a.k.a. thecancerus).

That’s right – gate-crash, like uninvited wedding guests. It’s free, and it’s an unconference. Gate-crashing will actually be in the spirit of the event.

And if you are a student, then you must go, because in that one day, you will get more education than an entire month of your so-called classes.

With this in mind, here are PuneTech’s top 5 reasons why students must gate-crash Drupal Camp

Surprise your future employers: If you are in software, no matter what job you get, sooner or later you will be asked to build or oversee the building of a website, and there you should surprise everyone by having it ready, singlehandedly in one week as against their projections of 2-months using 3 people.
Beat the recession: As IT budgets get cut around the world, the web-development community will be hard hit, and companies will look to reduce spending on expensive web development. That’s why you should become a ninja at inexpensive web development using Drupal and its wide array of readymade modules.
Use this knowledge when you don’t get a job: Hey, let’s face it, if you are a student right now, it is very likely that you are not getting campus placement this year (or if you have been placed already, there’s a chance that it will get delayed or canceled). Instead of sitting around moping, the smart thing to do would be to start your own website and get to work for yourself. And for this, events like Drupal camp are great, for knowledge, for ideas and for contacts. For more reasons, see “Top 10 reasons why now is the best time to start a business with Drupal.”
Because you can: Think of all the poor little underprivileged students in Bangalore/Delhi/Hyderabad/Mumbai who cannot attend Drupal camp even if they want to. Because Drupal camp doesn’t happen in Bangalore. It doesn’t happen in Mumbai. It’s happening in Pune, and you are getting it free. Don’t give up this chance, because in the future, you (or your employer) will be charged exorbitant amounts for events like these, and you’ll still not be able to go because you have a stupid deadline.
Because PuneTech said so. And Amit Kumar Singh said so. And Tarun Chandel said so. And, I’m sure Rohit Srivastwa will say so as soon as he reads this. Seriously, you need to start listening to these guys.

If you are already going for Drupal camp, then please add to the list of reasons in the comments below.

Drupal Camp details:

What: Drupal Camp India ’09. Drupal Camp is a free, unconference, being conducted in Pune, with the objective to build up the community base and bring people closer. Details.
When: Saturday, 31st January, 10am to 5pm
Where: SICSR, 1st floor, Atur Centre, Gokhale Cross Road, Model Colony, Pune. Map.
Fees and Registration: This event is free for all to attend. Register here. Or not!

Business Intelligence Technology Trends: CSI Pune Lecture – 30 Jan

January 23, 2009EventsBI, community, csi, data warehousing, Events, TechnologyNavin Kabra

Computer Society of India – Pune Chapter presents the 4th lecture in a series on Data warehousing. The first lecture gave an overview of BI and DW. The second lecture was about how these techniques are used by businesses. The third was about data management for business intelligence. This is the fourth in the series:

What: Technology trends in Business Intelligence by Prasad Kulkarni of SAS R&D India.
When: Friday January 30th, 2008, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Where: Damle Hall, Damle Path, Behind Indsearch, Off Law College Road
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI Members & Students, Rs. 100 for others. Register here.

Details – Technology trends in Business Intelligence

This lecture will cover technological advances in BI domain. It will start with a discussion on general trends in BI and will relate them to technology. Primary focus is on different technologies used currently, their necessity and type of problem they are solving in the business intelligence domain. It will discuss areas like SOA (Service oriented architecture), SaaS (Software as a service), MDM (Master data management), Real time warehousing, Click stream data warehouses, Federated/integrated search, Web 2.0, Data visualization and so on. The participant will know how such technologies are solving problems specific to BI domain.

It is not necessary to have attended the previous lecture.

For more information about other lectures in this series, and in general other tech events in Pune, see the PuneTech events calendar.

About the speaker – Prasad Kulkarni

Prasad Kulkarni is working with SAS Research And Development India Pvt. Ltd for past 8 years as Associate Director – Platform Research and Development. He leads the core technology group at SAS R&D Pune. Prasad holds post graduation degree in computer management from University Of Pune and has 12 years of experience in the field of information technology. He has worked with product development setups in India. With SAS his focus areas are Metadata Management, Data Warehousing, Data visualization and Data access.

Acad DevCon: Microsoft Technologies Conference for Students – 18 Jan

January 14, 2009EventsAdd new tag, community, education, Microsoft, PUG, studentsNavin Kabra

This post by Pradnya Naik explains what Acad DevCon 2009 is, and why you should attend, and is reproduced here with permission.

ACAD DEVCON is a major event organized by Microsoft Student Partners and PUG in Pune to explain the most innovative and cutting edge technologies in Microsoft. So the question is who are Microsoft Student Partners and what is PUG?

Microsoft Student Partners are a group of enthusiastic students selected by Microsoft who love to explore and experiment with Microsoft products. Our main aim is to share knowledge among the student community because we believe in the proverb “teach one teach all”.We have been conducting developer’s conferences for students since 2005 and all events have been a major success…. The areas of interest not only limit to developing web based and windows based applications but also expand in areas of servers, operating systems and robotics.

Pune User Group is an association of professionals and students interested in technology who are dedicated and devoted to the noble cause of spreading knowlege. Every year PUG organises an event named DEVCON for professionals where experts address and give sessions to developers community. At present the whole organising team in Pune is an interested group of 25 people including MSP’s and the members cross the mark of 3000.

ACAD DEVCON is an event to get students from all colleges under one roof to share, collaborate and communicate ideas about their knowledge on various MS technologies. The sessions are interactive accompanied with onspot demos for better understanding of the subject.

What more !!!every student who attends ACAD DEVCON gets a kit for developing excellent applications on full version softwares provided at no charge.

So what are you waiting for!! Be there on 18th Jan, 2009 at COEP for ACAD DEVCON, 2009

For more information please click on ACAD DEVCON, 2009

About the author – Pradnya Naik

Pradnya, in her own words:

I go about the saying “Love what you do ..Do what you love..” A student by profession I love art, music, dance, travel and sports. I am a technology enthusiast and love working with computers. I believe that there is no end to learning and spreading knowlege and perfection comes with speed. I love to teach and so I became a Microsoft Student Partner, wherein I explore and explain Microsoft technologies to student community. It has been real fun to be a part of this campaign… So explore my blog to know me more… and ya keep smiling and be Happy…

You follow Pradnya’s blog, or you can follow her on twitter.

PUG Community Day: NAP with Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Student Partners Summit Blogging Panel
All PuneTech articles about PUG, and about Microsoft
Upcoming tech events in Pune: PuneTech calendar
All PuneTech articles for students

Find collaborators at IdeaCamp Pune 2: 17 Jan

January 12, 2009Eventsbarcamp, community, Events, ideacamp, ideacamppune2, ideas, innovationsNavin Kabra

Are you passionate about some idea, but don’t know enough like-minded people to partner with to give life to the idea? Are you an enthusiast of one domain looking for an someone with skills in another domain to implement a pet project? Do you want smart, energetic people to brainstorm with about how best to achieve something that you’ve long dreamt of?

Would you like to help Arun Bhatia (ex Municipal Commissioner of Pune) figure out how to increase voter-turnout and citizen participation in governance? Would you like to figure out ways in which the internet can save lives? Would you like to help develop a campaigning tool?

Would you like to discuss different ways in which we can survive this recession? Does local Pune search interest you? How about a session on user-driven innovation from someone who’s been doing this for over 10 years?

Would you like to join me in creating a blog aggregator for all Pune blogs?

If you answered yes to any one of these questions, you should attend “IdeaCamp Pune 2” this Saturday, from 9:30am to 6pm at SICSR Pune. If you have no idea what SICSR is, then you really need to start reading PuneTech more often.

Still not convinced?

Check out my report of the first IdeaCamp Pune that happened last year. Or, see the IdeaCamp blog for various other reports of the last IdeaCamp (scroll down a couple of posts).

If you want to attend, register at the IdeaCamp page. You need to click on the Edit button at the top of the page. This will ask you to create an account; go ahead and follow instructions like a good soldier. Then you’ll get an activation link in the mail. Activate your account. Now you can go back to that page and click Edit, and this time it will allow you to edit the page. Scroll down to the list of participants and add your details to that table. You might have to right-click and use the “Row > Add Row After” menu to create a new row.

It is free, but you must register, because last time, due to space constraints, the number of participants were limited to 80, and many people who were interested were not allowed to attend. In other words, as we like to say here at PuneTech, Hurry! Offer valid until stocks last!!

And don’t forget to check the PuneTech calendar for all the other interesting events on offer for you.

And you are not subscribed to PuneTech, please do so – you can get updates (free) by email or via RSS. And tell your friends too.

A report of IdeaCamp Pune 1
Over 10 interesting tech events in Pune over the next 10 days
All PuneTech posts about barcamp and barcamp-like events: http://punetech.com/tag/barcamp/
PuneTech’s 11 most popular articles/pages of the year

12 interesting tech events in Pune over the next 10 days

January 9, 2009Eventscommunity, EventsNavin Kabra

Update: two more events got added to this list soon after it was published. So the number has gone up to 12 from the original 10.

Pune is buzzing with tech activities. The PuneTech calendar lists 10 interesting tech events between now (9th January 2009) and next weekend (18th January). How many are you attending?

Here is a quick listing:

Saturday, Jan 10

Innovations 2009, All day @ Dewang Mehta Auditorium

NULL.co.in monthly meeting on computer security 6pm @ IMED, More Vidyalaya

Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group community Day 6pm @ Seed Infotech

Sunday, Jan 11

OnTarget 2009 (Academic): PMI Pune’s conference on “Infrastructure projects for a better tomorrow” Professional Track @ B.V. Amplify Bharti Vidyapeeth Campus

From Innovation to IPO – TiE Pune Mentorship programme for Startups with Baba Kalyani, R Sriram etc., 9am to 2:30pm @ Dewang Mehta Auditorium

Tuesday, Jan 13

Understanding WiFi Cyber-attacks (AirTight Networks and MCCIA), 6pm @ Hall No. 6 & 7, B Wing, 5th Floor MC

Friday, Jan 16

CSI Pune Lecture: Security Testing Using Models 6:30pm to 8:30pm @ Dewang Mehta Auditorium

Saturday, Jan 17

IdeaCampPune-2, All Day @ SICSR

Peepaal Campus Orientation – Bringing Industry and Students together 10am to 12-noon @ Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Sunday, Jan 18

OnTarget 2009 (Professional): PMI Pune’s conference on “Infrastructure projects for a better tomorrow” Professional Track, All Day@ Le Meridien – Pune

Acad DevCon: Microsoft Technologies event for students, 10am to 6pm @ COEP Auditorium

NULL.co.in Monthly Meeting on Computer Security: Saturday Jan 10

January 9, 2009Eventscommunity, Events, null, security, user groupsNavin Kabra

What: Monthly meeting on Network Security by security awareness group “Null”
When: Saturday, 10^st January, 6pm
Where: IMED, More Vidyalaya, Paud Road, Pune
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. No registration required.

Details:
Agenda of the meet:
1. Discuss the AntiPhishing Project.
2. Discuss the Clubhack IAS project.
3. Presentation on Stack Smashing/Shellcoding.
4. Planning for our next Event.
5. What to and how to of our meets.

For the other 4 tech events happening this weekend, check the PuneTech calendar.

PUG Community Day: NAP with Windows Server 2008

January 9, 2009Eventscommunity, Events, Microsoft, PUG, security, user groupsNavin Kabra

What: Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group Community Day featuring a presentation on NAP with Windows Server 2008
When: Saturday 10 January, 6pm onwards
Where: SEED Infotech Ltd., Nalanda, S No – 39, Hissa No – 2/2, CTS 943, Opp Gandhi Lawns, Erandwana, Pune 411 004,
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. No registration required.

(For a list of “competing” tech activities in Pune this weekend, see the PuneTech calendar)

About the speaker – Abhishek Pradhan

Abhishek is in Information Security (SIR Specialist). He is currenly working with Symantec India, and has around 5 yrs of expertise on various Server Technologies and on Microsoft domain.

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