November 2015 Public meeting - The Fog of More with Tony Sager

Our next ISSA meeting will be Thursday, November 5 and will feature Tony Sager!  This free meeting is open to the public, so please share with your friends and security colleagues!

Tony Sager is a Senior VP and Chief Evangelist for the Center for Internet Security. He leads the development of the Critical Security Controls, a worldwide consensus project to find and support technical best practices in cybersecurity. His “volunteer army” cuts across all segments of the industry to identify practices that will stop the vast majority of attacks seen today, and then leads projects that will validate, measure, scale, and share these practices for widespread adoption. Tony also serves as the Director of the SANS Innovation Center, a subsidiary of The SANS Institute.

Tony retired from the National Security Agency in June 2012 after 34 years as an Information Assurance professional. He started his career in the Communications Security (COMSEC) Intern Program, and worked as a mathematical cryptographer and a software vulnerability analyst.  After moving into leadership positions, Tony helped found and then led the Systems and Network Attack Center, oversaw all Red and Blue Team projects, established and led security product evaluation teams, helped guide the agency's top talent development programs, served as the founding chief of the Vulnerability Analysis and Operations Group (comprised of 700 of the NSA's top technical cybersecurity specialists serving the defensive mission), and was the Chief Operating Officer for the Information Assurance Directorate. Tony also led the release of NSA security guidance to the public starting in 2001, and greatly expanded NSA’s role in the development of open standards for security.

Mr. Sager holds a B.A. in mathematics from Western Maryland College and an M.S. in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.  Tony is also a civilian graduate of the US Army Signal Officer Basic Course and the National Security Leadership Course.

Registration
For more details and to register, please see:
https://greater-augusta-issa-2015-november.eventbrite.com/

June 2015 Public meeting - IR Event Log Analysis with Hal Pomeranz

Our next ISSA meeting will be Thursday, June 25 and will feature Hal Pomeranz!  This free meeting is open to the public, so please share with your friends and security colleagues!

IR Event Log Analysis

Windows event logs contain a bewildering variety of messages. But homing in on a few key events can quickly profile attacker activity. From administrator logins, to scheduled tasks, to entries related to system services, and more-- the event logs are a one-stop shop. Learn to "crack the code" and enhance your investigations by adding event log analysis to your toolset.

About Hal Pomeranz

Hal Pomeranz is an independent digital forensic investigator who has consulted on cases ranging from intellectual property theft, to employee sabotage, to organized cybercrime and malicious software infrastructures. He has worked with law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe and global corporations. Hal is a SANS Faculty Fellow, and a respected author and speaker at industry gatherings worldwide.

Registration
For more details and to register, please see:
https://greater-augusta-issa-2015-june-hal-pomeranz.eventbrite.com/

Security Conferences in Augusta

Please mark your calendar and make plans to attend!

June 24 - 26
Cyber Security for Defense:
http://www.cybersecurityfordefense.com/

August 25-27
Technet Augusta:
http://events.jspargo.com/Augusta15/Public/Enter.aspx

September 11
Security Onion Conference:
http://blog.securityonion.net/2015/05/security-onion-conference-2015-cfp.html

September 12
BSides Augusta:
http://bsidesaugusta.org

Hope to see you there!

Augusta ISSA members get 50% discount for TAG Cyber Security Conference

The Technology Association of Georgia’s Infrastructure Society, the TAG Greater Augusta Chapter, and leaders from the technology community will join officials from the Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) Headquarters in Fort Gordon, Georgia for a daylong conference at Georgia Regents University in Augusta entitled, “U.S. Army, Cyber Security and Business Against a Common Foe.”

Topics included in the panel discussion portion of the all-day conference include:

• What is cyber security and why should it matter to business?
• Infrastructure today and what is required to support ARCYBER?
• The financial and technological impact of ARCYBER location in Georgia?
• Cyber security: how does business and the government overlap in this increasingly complex space?

For more details and to register, please see:
https://www.123signup.com/event?id=yxvms

The discount code for ISSA members was sent to the ISSA members mailing list this morning.  If you're not already an ISSA member, you can join today and request the discount code.

If you have any questions, please contact Heather Miner at TAG (heather@tagonline.org).