Our March chapter meeting is on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

Bug bounties – Don’t hate the player, hate the game

Abstract: Recent attacks provide insight on cyber assaults which require immense planning and fortitude. While some assaults took advantage of opportunistic findings, many did not. Companies are constantly striving to improve their security posture, but no system is vulnerability free and external scrutiny is a bonus. It is increasingly more difficult to find some of those most critical types of security vulnerabilities. Better testing is needed. To attract attention for the special kind of testing needed, a bug bounty program will go a long way. Security researchers, hackers, and enthusiasts from all over the world participate for the benefit of all parties. However, cracking bug bounties is harder than it looks. John Menerick shows how certain methodologies can affect institutions, researchers, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.

Speaker Biography:

John Menerick’s interests include cracking clouds, modeling complex systems, developing massive software-defined infrastructures, automating deceptive incident responses, designing zero trust security architectures, and is the outlier in your risk model. While John is the founding security team member of many successful institutions, currently, John is Lake Michigan Credit Union’s CISO and Research Something’s Chief Cyber Security Researcher.

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 February chapter meeting is on Wednesday, February 1st, 2017 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

Something from Nothing – Building a Holistic Privacy and Information Security Awareness Program from the Ground Up

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Abstract: The presentation will cover the lessons learned when preparing a privacy and information security awareness training plan that will successfully convert end users to security champions. We will deliver an interactive presentation that discusses end user roles, prescribing security topics, retention strategies and privacy and security awareness lifecycle management including different methods and techniques to staff, define, manage, present, and measure the program. The presenters will engage with the audience to have them define methods for their individual companies and industries. Audience participation and information sharing of related lessons learned, resources, and techniques is encouraged for the benefit of all participants.

Speaker Biographies:

Aphrodite (Apple) Jones has been serving the technology field for over 25 years. She is a graduate of Davenport University with a BBA in Network Management and a MBA with a focus in E-Business. She is currently working to build the comprehensive and holistic privacy and information security awareness training plan for Spectrum Health and Priority Health as the Lead IS Training Specialist. She is also helping to build the talent pipeline options for the information security department by working with area colleges, universities and high schools and Michigan Works. She previously served as the Associate Dean for Davenport University’s College of Technology with responsibilities that included overseeing the undergraduate and graduate technology curriculum including the cyber defense curriculum and government designations for its Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE/CDE). She spent over 20 years in higher education both as an administrator and professor who was passionate about diversity initiatives promoting technology careers to both women and people of color. She served as the advisor for Davenport University’s Women in Technology student organization. She currently serves on technology program advisory boards for Grand Rapids Community College, Kent Career Technology Center and Careerline Technical Center high school programs. She serves as a member of the Michigan Healthcare Cybersecurity Council’s (MiHCC) information security awareness group and a member of the Michigan Council of Women in Technology’s (MCWT) Western Michigan’s planning committee and is the recently elected Vice President for the Grand Rapids Information Systems Security Association (GR-ISSA).

Joshua VanderWeide began his career in education, graduating from Grand Valley State University with a degree in music education. After 3 years of teaching middle school choir and elementary general music, he transferred his skills in education to training teachers on the use of technology in the classroom. His background in education and training and his personal affinity for technology led to his current position at Spectrum Health, where he is helping to build the Privacy and Information Security Awareness Training department by both designing and delivering curriculum covering a vast array of awareness topics geared at end users.

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 7th, 2016 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

Top 10+ Security Risks at Financial Institutions – 5 years and 100 IT Compliance Audits / Security Assessments Later, An IT Auditor’s / Assessors Findings

Abstract: Over 30 years of experience in the area of Information Systems and Technologies (IT) has provided knowledge and skills that are both varied and extensive. Efforts have focused on providing IT compliance audit and security assessment services, systems/network design and administration, secure and reliable collaboration solutions, and telecommunications integration.

Recent accomplishments have included the design and administration of comprehensive, multi-level, risk-focused audit and assessment programs for financial, healthcare, and technology based organizations (GLBA, HIPAA, and PCI); administration of IT compliance audits and security assessments; installation, upgrade, and maintenance of highly secure and robust Microsoft Windows based networks enabling file services, email/collaboration services (Exchange Server and SharePoint Server), digital assistant services (ActiveSync and BlackBerry Enterprise Server), and web services (Internet Information Services and SQL Server); installation and maintenance of remote office networks utilizing various VPN technologies (IPsec, SSL, and PPTP); and participated with large multi-national corporations in strategic, and tactical, search engine optimization/marketing efforts against antagonistic web and social media sites.

Speaker Biographies: Damian Walters, Principal – Damian Walters & Associates, LLC, specializes in the following:

• SOC 2, GLBA, HIPAA, and PCI Compliance Audits
• Security Assessments
• Network and System Design and Administration
  Web Site Hosting, Design and Administration
• Data and Disaster Recovery
• Cloud Services
• Virtualization Services
• Search Engine Optimization and Marketing (SEO/SEM)
• Telecommunications (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry) Integration

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

Our November chapter meeting is on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 at 5:45PM. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!

Two Perspectives on Implementing a Phishing Program

Abstract: Join us November 2nd, 2016 as we explore two approaches to changing behaviors within the user base. Matt Somers will present lessons learned and first-hand experiences in selecting and roll-out of an Enterprise Phishing Program. Robert VanDyke will walk through how we setup an Open Source internal Phishing Campaign. Both presentations will provide real world experiences from local chapter members. With Phishing attempts one of the highest risk areas, these sessions are sure to provide valuable and current insight.

Speaker Biographies: Matt Somers, CISSP resides in West Michigan and is the CISO for a global company headquartered in the US. Matt has over 14 years experience in the Information Security field. Matt is also a founding Board Member and Secretary of the (ISC)2 West Michigan Chapter. Robert Van Dyke is a senior at Ferris State University studying Information Security and Intelligence. He is also employed at Metro Health Hospital as a Security Analyst for almost one year. He loves all things tech related. In his free time he enjoys working in his home “Lab”, pen testing various boot2root, ctfs, and installing and playing with new software. He has participated in the GrrCon OSINTCTF the past two years and placed 6th and 4th respectively.

Presentations
Phishing Implementation

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

The board of (ISC)² West Michigan Chapter were very happy to again receive the support of the GrrCon community. All attendees received a (ISC)² flyer in their conference bags and the fine folks at GrrCon were nice enough to donate booth space to the Chapter on the exhibition floor.  We were glad to be able to meet so many of you.

We’re looking forward to welcoming all of the new members and hope to see you at a meeting soon. Once again we’re all lucky to have such an awesome infosec con right in our backyard. Looking forward to GrrCon 2016 already!