Our February chapter meeting is on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2015 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

Application Threat Modeling in Risk Management

Abstract: Business and government organizations have wised up to the need for a risk-based management approach to info / cyber / <buzzword>-security. But most security risk assessment efforts get mired in excessive analysis or produce results with little substance to them. Should we be using a kill-chains approach? NIST or ISO frameworks? This presentation examines organizational impact of assets based on value and profiles threat agents from their motivations, capabilities, resources and tactics. We’ll step through using the Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool to make data-flow diagrams and gain insight into the soft spots where these threat agents can make contact, cover insider threats and draw threat profiles that make them real for management. Then we’ll show you how to pull this all together in a form that drives home your point.

Speaker biography: Mel Drews has been security consultant to hospitals, government agencies, universities, electric utilities and financial institutions large and small all around the country. He’s used and built risk assessment tools in many teams with a wide range of capabilities. He also claims expertise in penetration testing, software security, system
hardening, and audit. Mel is a SANS Institute Mentor instructor planning his next course to deliver on web application defense. He’s currently working on software security and risk assessment with a large financial services firm in Michigan.

UPDATE: Download the presentation from Mel’s site here.

Schedule

5:45-6:15PM Networking/Membership signup / Dinner
6:15-7:15PM Presentation
7:15-7:45PM Q&A

NEW LOCATION Location Information

Metro Health IT Facility
985 Gezon Parkway (across from Target loading dock)
Wyoming, MI, 49519

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Our December chapter meeting is on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

How to Adapt What We Have Now to the IoT (The Internet of Things)

Abstract: Information Security Professionals are fast realizing that they are facing new challenges:

• How do I strategize, budget, & execute today for a world that I can’t even imagine five years from now?
• How do I sleep at night when after 99 successes, one small miscalculation could put my name on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or the headline of the Drudge Report?
• Now that the guys in the high-back chairs in the corner offices want to invite me to their meetings, how do I put all this craziness into words that they can understand?
  In this fast changing world, let’s be honest, the pocketbooks have opened & IT Security is getting the funds <<yea!>> & the attention <<boo!>> that we need. The bottom line? You’ll leave this discussion with four or five things you can do that will keep you on the road to those 99 successes while making that story above the fold a little less likely.

Speaker biography: Caston Thomas brings perspective, knowledge and a practicality to how to combine technology and process change for improving security & management of mobile & the cloud. Caston has pioneered communications & workflow technologies in a number of healthcare organizations. With almost 30 years in corporate information technology, he is sought by business leaders as an expert helping to fill the gap between mobile security frameworks and the operational processes & technologies that make them work.

Schedule

5:45-6:15PM Networking/Membership signup / Dinner
6:15-7:15PM Presentation
7:15-7:45PM Q&A

NEW LOCATION Location Information

Metro Health IT Facility
985 Gezon Parkway (across from Target loading dock)
Wyoming, MI, 49519

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Our November chapter meeting is on Wednesday, November 4th, 2015 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

IT Security Update from FBI

Abstract: Special Agent Joliffe will be giving a general update on current matters related to IT security and will touch on issues and incidents that have affected organizations both locally and globally.

Speaker biography: Special Agent Peter Jolliffe has been assigned to the FBI’s counter intelligence matters in West Michigan for the past 6 years.

Schedule

5:45-6:15PM Networking/Membership signup / Dinner
6:15-7:15PM Presentation
7:15-7:45PM Q&A

NEW LOCATION Location Information

Metro Health IT Facility
985 Gezon Parkway (across from Target loading dock)
Wyoming, MI, 49519

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Our October chapter meeting is on Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

Past, Present and Beyond the Boundaries of Vendor Management and Security

Abstract: As business growth and cloud vendors becomes more important to survive, IT is required to match the business agility through flexible security models, methodologies and infrastructure.

This session will cover:

• Experiences modernizing vendor management in a cloud era
• The overall approach to finding flexible onboarding of new or existing solutions
• Single sign-on, contract reviews, and IT and security architecture

Speaker biography: Eric Merkle, Business Architect at BDO USA, LLP, focuses on identifying process improvements and emerging technologies. His professional career began in operational support, and he gradually moved into project management, vendor management and architecture. Eric is a member of PMI and IASA Global and has certifications in PMP, Architect Core and ITIL.

Eric has been with BDO for over 14 years and continues to have a passion for designing new and improving business processes throughout BDO.

Schedule

5:45-6:15PM Networking/Membership signup / Dinner
6:15-7:15PM Presentation
7:15-7:45PM Q&A

NEW LOCATION Location Information

Metro Health IT Facility
985 Gezon Parkway (across from Target loading dock)
Wyoming, MI, 49519

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Our September chapter meeting is on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

Member Roundtable & Planning Session

The ISC2 West Michigan Chapter board members will be hosting a roundtable discussing current security topics, as well as gauging interest in specific topics and soliciting member presentations for the remainder of 2015.  We hope this will be a very interactive meeting and will result in a having a schedule outlined for upcoming meetings.  If you have a topic you’d like to present on please come prepared to discuss!

NOTE: Meeting location has been changed.  See location information below.

Schedule

5:45-6:15PM Networking/Membership signup / Dinner
6:15-7:15PM Presentation
7:15-7:45PM Q&A

NEW LOCATION Location Information

Metro Health IT Facility
985 Gezon Parkway (across from Target loading dock)
Wyoming, MI, 49519

Map