The South Texas Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association

Monthly Meeting Announcement

Luncheon Topic:

Friending Your Life Away

Clearly social networking is the latest killer app that has changed society as we know it. From helping long lost loves get back together to better organizing the London riots to alerting criminals when their victims are away from home to enabling APTs to establishing footholds inside their intended targets. This presentation covers cases and issues that show how social networks are becoming a major security attack vector, and what organizations can do to better protect against the vulnerabilities.

Our Guest Speaker:

Ira Winkler

Bio:

Mr. Winkler, CISSP is President of the Internet Security Advisors Group. He is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals, and has been named a “Modern Day James Bond” by the media.He did this by performing espionage simulations, where he physically and technically “broke into” some of the largest companies in the World and investigating crimes against them, and telling them how to cost effectively protect their information and computer infrastructure. He continues to perform these espionage simulations, as well as assisting organizations in developing cost effective security programs. Ira also won the Hall of Fame award from the Information Systems Security Association, as well as several other prestigious industry awards.

Mr. Winkler began his career at the National Security Agency, where he served as an Intelligence and Computer Systems Analyst. He moved on to support other US and overseas government military and intelligence agencies. After leaving government service, he went on to serve as President of the Internet Security Advisors Group, Chief Security Strategist at HP Consulting, and Director of Technology of the National Computer Security Association. He was also on the Graduate and Undergraduate faculties of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland.

Corporate Espionage

Through the Eyes of the Enemy

Location:

HESS - Houston Engineering and Scientific Society Club
5430 Westheimer at Yorktown. (Free Garage Parking)

When:
All monthly meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month. The next monthly meeting will be held on May 10^th, 2012.

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Meeting Sponsor:

Verdasys (Twitter: @Verdasys_Inc) provides Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) solutions that secure proprietary and sensitive data and the integrity of business processes essential for Global 2000 companies to successfully compete in today’s highly collaborative and mobile environments. Digital Guardian, recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention, is a proven technology platform that provides complete policy-based data lifecycle monitoring, classification, forensics, and control on endpoints and servers; virtual machines and enterprise applications; mobile devices; and cloud environments. Digital Guardian is offered as an in-house or managed service solution to protect IP and regulated data from compromise by privileged insiders, strategic partners, and targeted cyber attacks. Since 2003, millions of Digital Guardian agents have been deployed to protect critical data for global leaders in financial services, insurance, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare industries.

For more information visit: www.verdasys.com.

Contact:

Susanne Gurman
Email: sgurman@verdasys.com

Verdasys Corporate Headquarters

The College of Technology at the University of Houston offers Information Security Certificate programs designed for working professionals. Evening and weekend classes, same materials as graduate level classes and easy to enroll. The UH Information Systems Security certificate program provides an in-depth, hands-on exposure to information security principles, practices, methods and tools.

6321 Principles of Information Systems Security- Information systems security principles, practices, methods and tools. (Spring and Fall)
6322 Secure Enterprise Computing- Security operations including intrusion detection, incident response, and other operational security issues. (Spring only)
6323 Cryptography – the use of encryption and other technologies to operationally secure information.(Fall Only)
6324 Information Systems Security Risk Analysis- the assessment and management of enterprise risk exposures. (Spring and Fall)
6337 Digital Forensics- covers both e-discovery and civil procedure issues associated with digital evidence in today’s legal environment. (Fall Only)
6358 Secure Software Design- the tools, techniques and procedures necessary to produce code that is secure by design, deployment, and operation. (Spring Only)
6397 SCADA Security- the application of security to process control and SCADA systems. (Spring Only)
6397 Penetration Testing – the tools, techniques and procedures to perform penetration testing on networks and applications. (Fall Only)

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Registration

Meetings are open to all members and visitors who are interested in Information Security.
NOTE: We now ask for members to include their ISSA membership number when registering. A current ISSA membership is required to qualify for member meal prices and workshop fees. If you do not have your membership number available when registering on-line through ACTEVA, please bring your membership number with you to the meeting for check in and payment.

We encourage members and guests to make reservations via Acteva prior to 5:00 p.m. on the Tuesday before the meeting to help the chapter plan for enough meals and seating. Advanced reservations may also qualify for a discount on the meeting charge.

NOTE: For security reasons, ensure that you close your browser after booking your lunch reservation through Acteva. http://www.acteva.com/go/issa
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Luncheon Meeting Fees

	Advance Registration	Late - On line or Walk in Registration (after 5:00 p.m. Tuesday)
Luncheon Meeting (11:15 am - 1:15 pm)
Chapter Members	$20.00	$25.00
Non-Members	$30.00	$35.00

CPE Credit: 1 hour for the luncheon presentation

DressCode: Business or Business Casual Attire

Questions: Visit the chapter web site for contact information ( http://southtexas.issa.org)

Upcoming Training Opportunities

As usual, our prolific education director is busy preparing an educational opportunity for our chapter members at a remarkably attractive price.

The Next 12-week CISSP Review Class is expected to start the week of August 13th. If Thursdays, it will run from 8/16/12 through 11/1/12. Location pending. Cost: $450 members / $525 non-members
Computer Forensics

General Computer Forensics (CHFI) class is planned for 5-6 Saturdays this coming Fall, after Labor Day, tentatively at the Houston Emergency Center, 5320 N. Shepherd (south of Tidwell), http://houston.citysearch.com/profile/map/9866040/houston_tx/houston_emergency_management.html
Additional sessions on Forensics tools are also in discussion, and may be held as a separate class at this or another location.
Cost $874 for ISSA Members, $999 for non ISSA Members.

2-3 1-day overview classes are also expected, including a 1-day CISSP Overview / Exam Review class in November, location TBA.

(education@southtexas.issa.org) with any questions.

Sponsorships Available for Future Monthly Meetings

If your company is active in the information security business, you should consider taking advantage of the opportunity to raise awareness of your company to our members.

Each month we solicit a sponsor for the luncheon presentation as well as any special workshops. The charge is quite small and it provides you the following benefits:
(1) your logo on our chapter web site
(2) five minutes at the beginning or end of the presentation to present your company, and
(3) the opportunity to conduct a drawing, if you would like to, in order to collect business cards

Please contact Josh Locker (marketing@southtexas.issa.org) or any member of the ISSA chapter board to express your interest.

For CPA CPE candidates:

TSBPA CPE provider number: 008915

Objectives: See description above

Content: See description above;

Prerequisites: None

Experience Level: Moderate to Advanced;

CPEs: 1 hour

The 2012 Board of Directors of the South Texas Chapter of ISSA

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