Local and international experts will share their solutions on security. Jeff Alexander - IT Pro Evangelist Consolidated Microsoft's Australia and New Zealand data centers into a single Asia pacific Data Center. Michael Kleef - IT Pro Evangelist Provides insight and how-to knowledge into Microsoft platforms and applications.   Jamie Sharp - Security Advisor Advises clients on best practice strategies for mitigating complex security issues. Jesper Johansson - Senior Security Strategist Delivers presentations on network security all over the world. Steve Riley - Senior Security Strategist Specialises in network and host security, communication protocols, network design, and information security policies and process.  Peter Watson - Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Australia Peter performs the role of "trusted advisor" to some of Australia's and Asia Pacific's leading organisations. Speakers are subject to change Jeff Alexander, IT Pro Evangelist, is the man that consolidated the Australia and New Zealand data centers into a single Asia pacific Data Center, in a project that reduced the number of Microsoft Data centers from 23 to only 4. Jeff started at Microsoft in August 1987 as a Support Professional focusing on management tools for Microsoft's Enterprise customers. Since then he has moved through several external facing roles before taking on one of the Worlds largest Server consolidations - Microsoft's Asia Pacific infrastructure. Jeff now focuses his passion for Infrastructure and management technologies as an Evangelist promoting and enabling the community of IT Professionals through vehicles as TechNet events, blogging, the TechNet Web Site (TechNet lounge), User Groups, MVP's, and online webcasts.  Jesper is a Senior Security Strategist in the Security Technology Unit at Microsoft. Jesper's job is to help Microsoft customers figure out how to use Microsoft's products securely. He delivers presentations on network security all over the world and is a frequent speaker at large conferences and custom workshops, particularly in places that lend themselves to great diving. Together with Steve Riley he co-authored Protect Your Windows Network (Addison-Wesley, 2005, ISBN 0321336437). He has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a certified Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP). Michael Kleef has worked for Microsoft for the past 5 years in areas such as user group communities and major events and provides insight and how-to knowledge into Microsoft platforms and applications. Previous to this he worked for a national systems integrator in directory integration and interoperability space. He holds a current MCSE certification and specialises in Windows platform technologies, Active Directory and Identity Management.  Steve Riley is a Senior Security Strategist in Microsoft's Security Technology Unit in Redmond, Washington, USA. Steve specializes in network and host security, communication protocols, network design, and information security policies and process. His customers include various ISPs and ASPs around the United States, as well as traditional enterprise IT customers, for whom he has conducted security assessments and risk analyses, deployed technologies for prevention and detection, and designed highly-available network architectures. Steve is a frequent and popular speaker at conferences worldwide, often appearing Asia one week and Europe the next. Jamie Sharp is a Security Advisor with Microsoft. He has 10 years of IT Security experience and holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. Jamie advises clients on best practice strategies for mitigating complex security issues. His technical security competencies include network and host security, communication protocols, network design, information security policy and process, threat and risk assessments, enterprise architecture and regulatory compliance. He has conducted security assessments and risk analyses, deployed technologies for prevention and detection of security vulnerabilities and designed highly-available enterprise architectures. An analyser from birth, Jamie spends his time out of work asking the question ?why' and trying to find holes in the daily processes of life. Peter Watson is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Australia, reporting directly to the country General Manager. Peter has worked within the computer security and control field for the last seventeen years. Peter performs the role of “trusted advisor” to some of Australia's and Asia Pacific's leading organisations, advising on trends and events in the broader security marketplace. His comprehensive security knowledge encompasses the life cycle of security from requirements, strategy, policy, standards through to architecture design, implementation and out-tasked management. Peter is extremely adept at assisting organisations in determining the value and benefits of security from a business perspective. A number of Australia's leading organisations have used Peter's security models to assist them in enacting security programmes that are not only business risk driven but operationally achievable.