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)

TechBirmingham (techbirmingham.com), along with the Central Alabama Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (CAISSA) and the InfraGard Birmingham Members Alliance, will host the Alabama Cyber Now Conference on April 5, 2016, at Regions Park in Birmingham Alabama. This event will include a broad range of technical and management speakers focused on today’s key cyber security issues.

 

If your company is interested in sponsoring this event, click here for more information. 

 

Registration is now open at the following address: 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alabama-cyber-now-conference-tickets-20867811185 

 

ISSA members receive a $30 discount on registration. The discount code will be made available soon.

Our December Chapter meeting will feature Mr. Ben Carlisle and Mr. Jess Bowers from Microsoft who will be speaking on WINDOWS 10 Security .   Topics such as Secure Boot, Credential Guard, AppLocker, Microsoft Passport, Windows Hello, and BitLocker will be covered.  Don't miss this exciting discussion from Microsoft on their recently released operating system.

See the link below to register and RSVP so we can provide sufficient food for lunch.  We will meet at 11:00 AM at Protective Life on Hwy 280.

See you on Dec 3rd. 

Don't forget to register for our November 5th chapter meeting.  Our speaker will be Mr. Jeremy Conway, CTO MAD Security who will be presenting a talk entitled: Cyber Security Defense Techniques and Strategies That Work!  Jeremy has spoken to our chapter several times always provides an exciting and in-depth talk.  Jeremy draws a crowd when he talks, so register today and don't miss this presentation.  (MAD Security has been a Chapter sponsor for the past 3 years.)

See the link below to register and RSVP so sufficient Dreamland BBQ can be ordered.

See you on Nov 5th. 

Don't forget to register for our October 1, 2015 meeting where we Mr. Daniel Clemens, CEO of Packet Ninjas, will be providing us insight into today's cyber security world.  Dan has spoken to our Chapter several times in the past and always is a big hit.  His understanding of the cyber world and his ability to translate today's threats/environment to language that we all can understand resulting in useful take-a-ways for everyone is uncanny.  Don't miss this meeting.

 

See you there! 

Mr. David Nelson, Integrity Technology Solutions, presented a great program on Social Engineering to all those who attended.  Feedback indicated that the topic was right on considering the increase in spear phishing, data thefts, and identify theft prevalent in today's world.