NEWTON-BASED BUSINESS EXECUTIVE TO SPEAK AT MICROSOFT TECH-ED CONFERENCE
MIS Alliance Technology Executive to Speak on the Role of End Users in Computing Security Violations and the Remedies for Businesses of All Sizes

NEWTON, MASS (MAY 17, 2006) – MIS Alliance, a leader in providing IT, MIS and CIO services to Boston area small and mid-sized businesses, today announced that one of its three executives has been selected to speak at Microsoft Tech-Ed, one of world’s largest, to be held in Boston for the first time this July.

“Our vice president of information technology, Brad Dinerman, has been selected to moderate a forum at Microsoft Tech-Ed in July,” said Al Karimi, President of MIS Alliance. “Tech-Ed is one of the largest Microsoft conferences in the world. Brad’s presentation topic is ‘End-Users: The Weakest Link in Corporate Security and What We Can Do To Fix This.’ At MIS Alliance, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we have found the topic of security to be extremely important to our clients.”

With nearly a decade of experience at MIS Alliance providing the latest security measures for small and mid-sized businesses in the Boston area, as well as the MIS Alliance executive team’s combined background working with and inside of large corporations, Dinerman’s insights on security come from the real business world.

“Recent headlines have made all business owners aware of the expensive damage that can be caused by breaches in computer security,” said Taraneh Satvat, CEO at MIS Alliance. “At MIS Alliance, we regard educating our clients as one of the most important roles we can play, and security is absolutely at the top of our list. Along with Brad’s role as founder and president of the New England Information Security Group (NEISG), we are pleased but not surprised that Brad was selected to lead this discussion at the Microsoft conference. At MIS Alliance, we find this topic critical to all businesses, large and small.”

The MIS Alliance executive’s article entitled, “Are You Working Securely?” was recently published in the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer newspaper. Furthermore, MIS Alliance’s Dinerman is featured as technical editor of the book, “Configuring SonicWall Firewalls,” published by Syngress in April of this year, and is a co-author of Windows Server 2003 Networking Recipes, due for general release by Apress Publishing in early July. Additionally, Dinerman is one of just 45 people worldwide to be named by Microsoft as an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in the category of Windows Server Networking.