2018 Session

Title: Inbox Zero – How to stay on top of an overwhelming email inbox
Description:
“I don’t get enough email” — No one, never.
In today’s paperless world, we rely on email for nearly all of our communication. Constantly sorting through an ever-growing stack of emails can be overwhelming. No matter how organized you are in other aspects of your life, email typically just sits where it arrived until some unknown future date when you realize you just don’t need it any more. Instead of giving up and just letting the pile grow and grow, we can use real world strategies for de-cluttering our existing inbox. Once we’ve overcome the initial hurdle, we can structure our inbox to incentivize frequent incremental filing in the future. Whether you receive one email a day or one thousand, you’ll be able to confidently stay on top of your inbox.

Biography

Dave Sibley joined DoIT Enterprise Internet Services in 2017, returning to his alma mater after seven years as a Web Application Developer with the US Geological Survey. His organizing skills have been honed over many years of trial and error. These skills were tested his first day on the job, when he found he had accrued seven years of emails in his absence.

Biography

Angela works for the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) in Policy and Planning.

Biography

Michael Tessmer is the Technical Lead of the Web and Mobile Solutions (WaMS) team in DoIT at UW-Madison. He loves all things security, penetration testing, writing code, collaborating on projects, problem solving, and is one of WaMS’ augmented/mixed reality developers.  In his spare time, you’ll find him cooking and experimenting/BBQing on his Big Green Egg.

2024 Session

Cybersecurity Appscanner: New features and best practices for secure web apps

2020 Session

On-Demand Web Application Security Scanning with Qualys WAS API — Including Examples

2018 Session

Title: Augmented and Mixed Reality Development with the Microsoft HoloLens
Co-Presenters: Mike Tessmer, Will Kraus
Description:
Mixed Reality through the Microsoft HoloLens (Google/Youtube it!) allows collaborative interaction with virtual objects integrated into our physical world.
Imagine wearing mixed reality goggles that allow students or researchers to see one another, see their physical environment, but also view and interact with the same virtual objects.
Imagine:

1. Examining a virtual 3D cadaver in the middle of a conference room that we can all walk around, collaboratively dissect, and discuss. Later at night, you study using the same virtual tools and body in your living room.
2. Simulating the real-time mixing of 3 different liquids into a virtual, 10x scale beaker allowing dozens of us to view and alter the experiment, adding a fourth or fifth liquid or solution on demand, exploring the impact at the particle level.
3. Viewing all the plumbing, electrical, and ductwork behind all the walls of the room you are in, or augmenting the existing room with an additional wall/door to simulate what a remodel might look like.
4. Modeling an approaching wall cloud with tornadic capabilities in a conference room, with a virtual scaled landscape on the floor.

We’ll demo the Microsoft HoloLens, demo our proof of concept application built for medical physicists in the School of Medicine and Public Health, explain the software development process, brainstorm campus applications, and provide an opportunity for participants to try out the product as time allows.

2019 Session

DMARC Pushing the Envelope

2018 Session

Title: Email Trust Issues? Find out why and what you can do to help.
Description:
Learn what UW-Madison is doing to improve email security and how campus IT professionals can help make email more secure.
This talk will focus on two areas: credentials are stolen causing the email service to be under constant attack, and domains are being spoofed which undermines the trust in our email.

Biography

Jesse has been on the UW-Madison email team since 2001. He spearheaded the implementation of anti-spam and reliable email delivery for university students, faculty, and staff. He monitors the anti-spam and email postmaster industry trends, old and new tactics, and emerging standards and best practices. He contributes to the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) and is the founding maintainer of the Anti-Phishing Email Reply (APER) project. After the team’s successful multi-year project to migrate the email service to Office 365 and consolidate the majority of email/calendaring systems across campus, Jesse is turning his attention to the next chapter of the UW-Madison email service: to fight the email forgery & phishing epidemic and improve the reputation of UW-Madison’s hundreds of email domains.