The next Galveston Community Network meeting will be held at noon on Wed July 11th at Texas A&M University at Galveston Building 3007 Room 114.

 Agenda – Introductions

-          Set meeting locations for the next 6 months

-          Presentation by Solid Border, Inc -- Solid Border, Inc is a San Antonio based business started May 2002 and formerly named MomentumCom, Inc.  It was granted HUB status by the State of Texas in 2003 as a woman-owned business.  In April 2005, the SCTRCA   /  Texas Unified Certification Program certified Solid Border as a SWDBE, a small, woman-owned, disadvantaged business enterprise.  Currently, the certification process with the Women ' s Business Enterprise Alliance is almost completed.  Solid Border is a preferred Network Security reseller in the state of Texas and certified to sell the full line of our Portfolio products.  A large percentage of our business(85%+) is Healthcare, Education and Government verticals.  Our expertise lies within these verticals, as we have “Solid” Engineers employed with us who have been doing business for years. 

                  Get informed and learn how to:

*             Improve security-Enable strategic communication and cooperation between security and operations teams

*             Manage an acceptable level of risk-Identify, quantify, and prioritize risks

*             Reduce costs-Lower the costs of security and compliance management

                        *             Ensure compliance-Keep up with changing regulatory requirements and security policies

“Security risk management simplifies the process of balancing security and governance needs with the cost of protection and compliance. We treat security as a business discipline so that you can identify and prioritize critical assets, achieve an acceptable level of risk, assess threats, proactively implement protection, and measure and enforce compliance with minimal resources and user intervention. The result is increased operational efficiency, low total cost of ownership, and comprehensive protection.”

Lunch will be provided by Solid Borders.

If anyone has any vendors that you think would be good to invite for future GCN meetings please let me know.

Future meetings -                   

       2007 Dates             

                        July 11, 2007  - Texas A&M University at Galveston

                        Aug 8, 2007    - Moody Gardens

                        Sept 12, 2007   –

                        Oct 10, 2007     –

                        Nov 14, 2007    –

                        Dec 12, 2007    -