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Keynote Speaker of TCF 2007 - Constantine Kaniklidis

Vista Exposed
Saturday April 28, 2007, 2:35 PM to 3:30 PM ETZ in 202W

Abstract :

Learn about the new Windows Vista from Microsoft, including why and how to upgrade, a tour of best - and worst ? new features, upward compatibility and upgrade issues, and gotchas.

- A Guided Tour of Windows Vista Editions

- The Pluses, and Perils, of Upgrading

- The New User Interface: Start, Aero, Glass, and Sidebar

- IE 7 and Other Internet Enhancements

- Security Enhancements: The Good, Bad and the Ugly

- Off the Beaten Track: Other Vista goodies

- Cautions: Vista Issues and Gotchas

Bio :

Constantine Kaniklidis, President of TES (Technology Education Support), is an industry-recognized expert in Data and Internet Security, Microsoft OS (Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista/Longhorn (2007)), Web Development and Web Services, among others. Over the past 25 years he has conducted thousands of technical, management, and executive seminars, and delivered consulting services in all these areas.

He is a member of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), ISSA (Information Systems Security Association), IEEE-TCSP (IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy), IEEE, ISOC (The Internet Society), IEEE-TCI (IEEE Technical Committee on the Internet), , IEEE-TFEC (IEEE Task Force on Electronic Commerce), IEEE TCPP (IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing), IEEE TFCC (IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing), and OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), and participates in many key committees on Internet and Systems Security and Privacy, PKI, and the emerging security standards for e-commerce, digital signatures and XML-based and web services security standards. As an internationally recognized security expert, he has consulted and provided educational and security services to a broad range of entities in the private/corporate sector, as well as the government and intelligence community. Clients have included AT&T, Bank of Boston, Bankers Trust, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the CIA, Citibank, Con Edison, Dun & Bradstreet, Goldman Sachs, John Hancock, JP Morgan Chase, Library of Congress, McKinsey, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Merrill Lynch, NYU Medical Center, Paine Webber, SIAC, Social Security Administration, TIAA-CREF, and UPS, among many others.