I'm sure that the security may have known that there may be events and other stuffs going on at the various companies in that building at One Marina Blvd. This month's meetup event is about the cybersecurity as well as the details on how cyber-crimes are tackled so there won't be anything about the cybersecurity concern at deeper level like those corrupted idiots at various companies doing some illegal spying on their own accord. The event was talking about how cyber-crimes were tackled by Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit which did some collaboration with the law enforcement and government agencies in order to track down cyber criminals and their command centers. Depending on how large the cyber criminal group is which may be somewhat situated in many nations, it may be a challenge to find all the command centers that operate those illegal activities.
Technical aspects of cybersecurity are what we know of and especially on how do we protect ourselves from cyber-attacks but outside of technology is the law enforcement type topic in which the speaker wasn't able to answer any technical questions related to cybersecurity. In addition, there might be famous news that popped up in the slides as a surprise to me as I had already seen the previous news like that prior to attending this meetup. Certain victims like Sony Pictures, Target and various bank and shop companies were the famous examples of the recent cyber-incidents and CEOs and CIOs are found to be really sensitive about the cybersecurity concerns. Anything compromised can land the company in deep trouble but finding and understanding the reasons on why would the cyber-penetrators do this and that may be a challenge.
Other mentioned stuffs included the fact that India and Indonesia are the most vulnerable South-East Asia countries according to the charts presented by the speaker but that's not to worry about other countries in South-East Asia as most of them are less vulnerable and it may be nearly rare to find simple security flaws nowadays. There might be cybersecurity awareness taking place in schools and I guess that privacy protection is one of the things I can add as part of the awareness like preventing illegal tracking and advertisements, using email services that are much safer as well as what to do and what not to do on the internet to be frank like privacy is not supposed to be an excuse for you to do bad stuffs online. Also, there might be differences between botnets and other various malwares in which the ones behind the botnet may spread it to various victim computers to do the attacks for them. The botnets may be hidden somewhere inside pirated software and media content so be on the lookout for that and if you're a pirate, your computer's simply screwed up without any knowledge so it's a serious advice to go genuine at all times.
Lastly, there's an app called Microsoft Events @ Microsoft which you can get from Itunes App Store and Google Play to see the upcoming events to attend to. Also, there is the Azure Global Bootcamp in which the Azure service is way too technically advanced for me and that I have no experience whatsoever. Even an 1-month trial isn't enough for me but sooner or later, I may have the ideas on things work with Azure and that I can list down the Azure plans like Virtualization, Backup and Recovery and Active Directory as other Azure components are aimed towards programmers in which they can manage, amend and develop apps for the Azure service, not IT Professionals. There's also Visual Studio Online which I first saw from the MVA Jump Start of Unity game development thingy.
Needless to say after the event, there's a suggestion form where you can suggest the next topic you want for the next event. Unfortunately, you will need a job if you want to suggest as the Company Name box is compulsory to fill in. The virtualization and security were already suggested by most of the group members the last time and it's posing me a difficulty on which topic to suggest. There has been mentions of cloud technology and I've been using various cloud services even today but the only senseful things about cloud technology by Microsoft nowadays will be Intune, Azure, Office 365, System Center for private cloud, Onedrive and of course, the private cloud version of Onedrive. Maybe there might be legacy elements of Windows Live Mesh data synchronization takes place in between computers but there was no online storage whatsoever. Even if there was one, the online storage might be separate from the Onedrive storage but the gladful thing is that Windows Live Mesh was completely ditched in favor of Onedrive and the new Remote Desktop which is for enterprise use unfortunately.
