We are pleased to announce that our chapter is sponsoring two scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year. The application deadline is October 31, 2017 and winners will be announced at the CAISSA chapter meeting.

The application is available at:

CAISSA Application 2017.docx

The Raleigh Chapter of ISSA will be hosting their annual security conference again this year on October 27th.  Take a look at the conference site for more information.

http://www.triangleinfosecon.com/

The North Alabama chapter of ISSA will be sponsoring this event.  Looks to be exciting and at an extremely affordable price.  Checkout the site for more details.  http://www.rocketsecure.org

F2F Events will be hosting Interface Alabama at The Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center on October 12th 8:30 AM until 4:45 PM.  Additional information can be found by visiting the conference website at http://interfacetour.com/tour/bhm17/

Thanks to everyone who attended the September chapter meeting and thanks again to Bill Dean from LBMC Information Security for coming down on such short notice and providing a rather entertaining presentation on Forensics.  The presentation will be uploaded shortly and can be accessed under the "Chapter Documents" section of the chapter site. 

Layer3 will be discussing cloud security at our October meeting.  Details will be announced soon.

Viperline Solutions is hosting the Birmingham Cyber Security Summit at the Innovation Depot from 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM on September 20th.  Vendors represented include FireEye (one of our sponsors), Mimecast, Duo and PhishMe.  Visit the registration site for more information.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-birmingham-cyber-security-summit-registration-36560382087

Thanks to everyone who attended our August meeting and a huge thanks to Rafal Los, with Optiv (one of our great sponsors), for providing an enlightening presentation on Threat Intelligence.

Bill Dean of LBMC Information Security will be speaking to us about forensics.

Topic: Darwinism via Forensics: People Make Dump Decisions With Today's Technology

Please be sure and register ahead of time.

There are two separate security-related events happening in Birmingham on Thursday, October 13, 2016.

UAB College of Arts and Sciences is hosting an all-day symposium on security entitled Cyber Security 2020. Registration and additional information is available at: http://www.uab.edu/cyber2020/

F2F Events is hosting Interface-Alabama at the Sheraton Hotel. More information is available at http://www.interfacetour.com/evites/bhm/issa.htm

We are pleased to announce that our chapter is sponsoring two $2,000 scholarships at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for the 2016-2017 academic year. The application deadline is July 31, 2016 and winners will be announced at the August CAISSA chapter meeting.

The application is available at:

https://centralalabama.issa.org/resources/CAISSAScholarshipApplication.docx

We will be hosting a members-only round table discussion for our July meeting, on July 7th at 11:00.

This event is restricted to members to encourage free exchange of information in a safe environment. If you need to join or renew your membership, please do so at www.issa.org. Be sure the select the Central Alabama chapter as part of your registration.

Register at: July 2016 Round Table Discussion (Requires member login)