ising in Network Architecture and Design, Advanced Network Security, Advanced routing and switching, Network analysis, capacity planning and High level problem solving and network troubleshooting services. He has a wide variety of vendor related accreditation including Cisco: CCNP, CCSP, CCDP, CCNP-Wireless, Specialisation System Engineer Accreditation in ISE, IronPort and VPN; Microsoft : MCSE; Checkpoint : CCSE; Trend Micro : TMSE; Juniper : JNCIA and RSA : RSA SecureID Administrator.
Mr Mark Laffan, Australian Catholic University
When ACU migrated to Office 365 from the on-prem exchange mail system it was decided to discontinue our spam and malware filtering once we had completed the migration and to use the Microsoft Office 365 protection.
All email systems around the world are constantly attacked with Spam, malware and phishing attempts. Most of these phishing attempts that get through will either trick or “social engineer” the user to give up their login credentials or infect them with ransomware such as cryptolocker. Phishing emails are now the primary way for attackers to get into the corporate network by tricking the user to visit a fake website.
This talk will go through the security challenges, headaches, and phishing attempts that Office 365 mail filtering didn’t prevent, some of the innovative and proactive actions that were taken to protect users and our eventual journey back to our previous anti-spam/malware filtering service: Symantec Cloud.
Biography:
Mark Laffan has been working at ACU since 1991 and has been involved in many infrastructure roles and changes from the initial connection to the Internet to the implementation of the campus wide network services to the desktop. Examples of such involvement include: file/print services, Cisco VOIP and other Microsoft technologies. Mark has qualifications and experience in Network Security, Windows system administration, ITIL change management and electronics engineering. Mark spends his spare time with his two kids and delving into electronics, hacking, gaming, 3D printing, computing and sci-fi.
Dr Hoylen Sue, QRIS
QRIScloud is a set of cloud computing services for researchers in Queensland universities and the public sector, provided by the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). QRIScloud provides a range of compute and storage services, including NeCTAR virtual machines and RDS data collection storage. And QCIF works closely with its member universities to provide valuable services to their researchers.
This presentation describes the challenges of creating a service delivery platform to support the operation of QRIScloud, and the solutions that were found. The service delivery platform allows the services to be ordered, provisioned and managed—with self-service as well as providing user support.
The service delivery platform brings together Australian Access Federation (AAF) for authentication, LDAP for integration and Zendesk for customer service management; as well as the heterogeneous set of services being offered. A range of different technologies has been integrated to provide a pragmatic solution. This presentation describes the design challenges and the solutions found.
It will be of interest to those facing their own integration challenges and those interested in using QRIScloud services.
Biography:
Dr Hoylen Sue is responsible for developing the service delivery portal for QRIScloud. He has developed eHealth standards with Standards Australia and Web specifications with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He has worked in research and industry; in the areas of resource discovery and metadata, distributed computing and Internet technologies.
Mr Michael Lymbery, Southern Cross University
Commencing in 2014, SCU engaged Huawei to modernize and refresh the University’s network end to end in order to reduce operational risks and provide the networking foundation necessary to cater for the University’s expanding bandwidth requirements in CCTV, VoIP and Video Conferencing, Research and Internet services.
Michael will describe the design goals and technical implementation details, while Gina will provide the background on project delivery.
Biography:
Michael is the network manager at Southern Cross University. He has worked in the networking field at the University for 15 years and been involved in many a network upgrade, wireless deployment and security review.
Mrs Sandra Lammas, University of Southern Queensland
Just how do you get staff to find out about all the important IT stuff they need to know, when they keep deleting your emails? In 2015 the division of ICT at the University of Southern Queensland positivity.
Biography:
Sandra Lammas is the leader of the ICT Training Team at the University of Southern Queensland. She has been involved in the every challenging world of getting the IT message across since 2009 and is particularly open to doing things a little bit differently to get results.
Dr Gordon Howell, Queensland University of Technology
Over the past decade there has been a concerted effort to improve learning spaces throughout the sector. This presentation builds of earlier work where QUT has transformed its learning spaces and includes QUT’s aspirations for the new Education Precinct, scheduled for completion for the commencement of semester 1, 2018.
These major developments are situated within a constructivist paradigm, to meet the student learning needs, now and into the future.
The underpinning technology is enabled by the convergence of AV and IT and the use of the corporate data network for all devices.
The presenter aims to leave the participants with view of QUT’s strategic direction with a range of building blocks on which to construct a variety of flexible learning spaces.
Biography:
Dr Gordon Howell is Director Learning Environments and Technology Support at Queensland University of Technology. In this role he is responsible for the management of QUT’s Managed Operating Environment covering 12,000 computers, and 50,000 students and staff, and the support and enhancement of the technology in the university’s 300 lecture theatres, lecture rooms, tute rooms, and video conference facilities. Recently Gordon was responsible for the technology deployment in the $230M Science and Engineering Centre at QUT’s Gardens Point Campus, and is currently leading the technology design for the new Education Precinct due to open in 2018. He has in excess of 25 years experience within education and technology management; having worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland; Associate Director Client Support Services and Director IT at Australian Catholic University.
Mr Brett Rosolen, AARNet
To address the increasing movement of!! Our ability to scale up our workflows to take full advantage of order of magnitude changes in network capacity is lagging behind significantly. as the default workflow.
To leverage our collective investment in national and institutional research resources we require an overall approach to ensure that large flows are catered for between all sites. This requires us as a community to do more to accommodate delivery of large datasets, leading to more efficient delivery of research outcomes.
This talk will cover the Science DMZ architecture and demonstrate the use of benchmarking tools that are now available to both test the limits and increase overall expectations.
Biography:
Brett Rosolen is the Data Program Manager for AARNet’s eResearch team, assisting researchers to make full use of the national and international network and services capability for the delivery of research outcomes.
Professor David Abramson, University of Queensland
Data is predicted to transform the 21st century, fuelled by an exponential growth in the amount of data captured, generated and archived, which presents researchers with unprecedented challenges. The University of Queensland has made significant progress in meeting these challenges by providing substantial computing and storage infrastructure.
Much of this investment is in the Queensland based RDSI and NeCTAR funded research cloud node, called QRIScloud, which is sited at the Polaris data centre some 30 km from the St Lucia campus. QRIScloud provides a robust platform for cloud computing and data storage to enable enhanced processing and sharing of research data. Polaris also houses a number of critical systems that support UQ research, including a data intensive supercomputer called FlashLite, and a new highly parallel cluster called Tinaroo. QRIScloud implements a highly scalable storage system with both spinning disk for rapid online access and tape for long term archive.
In centralising research data storage, and some computation, at Polaris, data is further from both the instruments that generate it, some of the computers that process it, and the researchers that interpret it. This in turn, makes some steps slower and more complex for researchers to access information.
MeDiCI solves this problem by supporting data collection and processing on campus, close to a range of scientific instruments, data sources and local expertise, and seamlessly connects this to the significant storage and processing capabilities in Polaris. A MeDiCI proof of concept implementation is built on IBM GPFS and SGI DMF.
Biography:.
Mr Jake Carroll, Queensland Brain Institute
Question: What do you do when you end up in that familiar situation of too much data to analyse in any humanly possible amount of time given current technology?
Answer: First, you panic, as you realise your experimental design didn’t factor any of this in. Next, you go and find technologies that can help you – and if they don’t exist yet, you go and dream of what you might build.
Things aren’t easy in the big scientific data space. Budgets aren’t growing, competitive funding and grants are getting less and less plentiful. It is time to get structured, get automated and get smart.
This is the story of the UQ OMERO platform and what the Queensland Brain Institute, in conjunction with the NeCTAR Cloud, QCIF and the RCC have been doing to meet the challenges of tera-scale confocal microscopy storage and processing in the biological sciences.
In this presentation, attendees will get a sneak peek into the unusual world of ultra high throughput microscopy imaging devices, super resolution microscopy and GPU-scale deconvolution by way of demonstrated real life use cases.
UQ’s OMERO platform is based upon a truly global initiative of passionate researchers, practitioners and