Workshop aims to tighten network security
AIT's Internet Education and Research Laboratory organized a five-day advanced network security workshop 6-10 February 2006 at the intERLab training center with the help of the sponsorships from Cisco Systems and Internet Thailand Plc.
Twenty participants, from state enterprise, government agencies and private companies, and network engineers from three Greater Mekong Subregion countries -- Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam -- joined the workshop.
In this workshop, the participants, mostly network engineers, learned how to secure configurations of network devices and to set up private networks. After the workshop, they will be able to apply what they learned to improve the network setup in their organization.
According to intERLab's technical manager, Mrs. Pensri Arunwatanamongkol the workshop was largely made possible through one of the lab's partners, the Network Startup Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that develops and deploys networking technology throughout Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New Independent States. The organization contacted Cisco Systems in the United States to provide two network security experts, Mr. Hank Mauldin and Ms. Laura Kuiper, who served as instructors for the workshop. Additionally, the organization assisted in providing textbooks to each participant.
AIT's intERLab is the regional center for the Internet human resources development of
the Asia-Pacific region. It has organized Internet infrastructure training to enhance the skills of network engineers and technologists in operating a secure and stable Internet.
Upcoming training can be found at www.interlab.ait.ac.th/training.html.