In these years, Computer network security plays an important role in the Information System field. The computer networks in organizations throughout the world are facing the threats of being attacked by Hackers or Malicious softwares everyday. Futhermore, Computer Virus, Spywares and Junk Mails have been causing a big trouble to the network users. To defend against these harmful things, you may need to set up different equipment and applications in your network. Then, there may be at least 4 to 5 different kinds of equipment  for protecting against different attacks. Imaging that how good it is to have an equipment, which can provide all the functionalities mentioned above! It will be convenient, time-saving and ease for management.

CPTTM held a workshop named "Using an all-in-one security applicance to secure your organization's network in three hours" on 23 August , 2005 from 14:30 to 17:30 at CyberLab. In this workshop, the first part will talk about some concepts and technologies about network security and then, there will be a hands-on practice on configuring an existing all-in-one security applicance to implement the above mentioned network security functions, so that you can evaluate the applicability of that applicance to your company or organization.

The main speaker of this workshop is Mr. Andrew Stevens, the Senior Product Marketing Manager of Secure Computing Corporation. He possesses a degree in Business Information Systems from Algonquin College in Canada and has worked in computer networking field for more than 16 years. He has served Secure Computing Corporation for more than 10 years on computer network security related tasks. He is frequently invited to different organizations to talk about computer network security while he also presents to some international computer network security meetings as the speaker.