Measuring Network Security
I hope you all have had a good, and possibly even restful, summer! IEEE Hampton Roads begins our fall technical presentation series with Dr. Aftab Ahmad of Norfolk State University who will discuss network security and industry standard frameworks developed to quantify levels of security. Please note that we will meet one week later this month on the 4th Thursday of the month to permit several Executive Committee members to travel to Sections Congress; we will return to our 3rd Thursday routine in October. Later this fall we plan to host Adeeb Hamzey of IEEE Richmond and a presentation about Jefferson Labs. We are also preparing some exciting new topics for the spring 2009 series, so if you have any ideas or suggestion please pass them along.
Upcoming meetings:
- IEEE-HR triennial worldwide Section Congress Sep 18th – 22nd
- IEEE-HR monthly technical meeting Sep 25th
- IEEE-HR monthly technical meeting Oct 16th
- IEEE-HR monthly technical meeting Nov 20th
- IEEE-HR Executive Committee meeting December, TBD
The topic of regular and structured technical meetings to meet the anticipated Virginia Engineering licensure requirements appears to be coming to a head, with implementation expected in early 2009. Examination of the draft regulations as well as the experiences of neighboring states shows that our IEEE topics will most likely satisfy the three requirements of presenter qualifications, relevance of technical content and sufficient meeting duration. Because the state places the education documentation burden on the engineer, one major benefit that IEEE provides is the detailed presenter biography and topic abstract published in each month’s newsletter. While simply retaining each month’s newsletter will go a long way towards documenting the educational requirement, IEEE-HR additionally archives both the newsletters and the details of the presenter and topic for each month. We continue to investigate ways in which IEEE members who are licensed engineers can find value in their membership, but as the new regulations are implemented it appears the current web site structure will be very helpful.
I hope you make it out to our Fall 2008 technical programs and find them interesting and valuable. For October and November we do plan to try something a little different in terms of format, hosting the meeting at a local Norfolk employer and serving pizza as opposed to a catered dinner. This will permit charging a much lower meeting fee, something I think we can all appreciate. As always, your feedback is most welcome – do you value the full meal, albeit at a higher price? Does the restaurant present a nice change of pace from the standard conference room? We want to know, and will seek feedback after our initial forays. If you have a suggested speaker or might want to present something yourself, please speak with me or any IEEE officer about this. I look forward to seeing you September!
Regards,
Kurt Clemente, PE
2008 Chair
Hampton Roads Section
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