Please join us in August when Lynn Moyers of Brightstone LLC brings us up to date on the latest from Apple. Lynn will talk about Apple’s current product line, answers the question “Why is the M1 chip so fast?” and updates us on privacy and security in Apple products.

Come meet the OCCA at our first post-lock-down meeting at the same place with a new name: Cooper Mountain Ale Works Public House, formerly Max's Fanno Creek Brew Pub!

This month we will be hearing from Wayne Waldron and Dave Miller, both from local security consulting firm FNI, Inc. as they present tips and techniques for properly securing a user's Office 365 account both before and after a password compromise.  Where can the adversary hide latent hooks which could allow them to re-compromise the account and how can we ensure the account is clean? Questions on how to configure, maintain and audit Office 365 security will be welcome.

Topics Laura will cover include:

• Changes in the business taxation 
• Specific Covid caused changes - Business expense what qualifies and what doesn't 
• What can't I write off? 
• Travel, meals and entertainment expenses 
• Home office deduction.  
• Retirement and retirement contributions
• Business (accounting) software and where it’s going – an overview. Including alternatives to QB.

Laura will be open to questions during and after the presentation.

This month will be a general Stump-the-Geek accompanied by a game of "What's the dumbest tech question you've been asked?"

A round-table discussion of what we are doing differently in 2021. Advice and tips.

This will be a general discussion. Bring your computer problems and also any solutions you've found we might be interested in. The meeting is open to all.

This will be a general discussion among members and guests. Bring your computer problems, and also any solutions you've found others might be interested in.

General open discussion. Members and guests can come and share information they think could be of interest to the group and ask any question they'd like to know the answer to and we'll see if someone can help them with  the answer. Essentially, just a very extended Stump the Geek and Sharing.

Topics that will be addressed:

- recoverable vs. non-recoverable scenarios
- encrypted devices 
- recovery from Flash, smart devices, etc
- best practices
- cost and why data recovery costs what it does
- natural disaster recovery cases 
- Long term storage and data preservation

Questions are welcome

At our November/December meeting we will  examine how we stop attacks before they get to our devices. This wall between the possible miscreants and us is traditionally done with firewalls. However, progress has enabled routers and even cloud solutions to be useful for small businesses and homes.

At this meeting we want to dig deeper into the question of balancing security, performance and ease of use. This will be a virtual round table meeting where a number of members will describe how they setup various firewalls and routers to  protect homes and small businesses. We will discuss the cost and pros and cons of each approach. We plan to discuss Sonicwall, Watchguard, Synology, Ubiquity and NextDNS. Please let us know if you are able to talk about your favorite firewall solution.