The South Texas Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association

Monthly Meeting Announcement

Luncheon Topic:

The Changing Face of Incident Response

As the security threat evolves, today’s enterprise Incident Response teams continue to face a daily onslaught of attacks. When faced with more work than resources to do it, prioritizing responses by threat severity can help teams maximize their effectiveness. Jim Butterworth, CSO of HBGary, Inc., will discuss the State of the Threat; provide real-world examples why past approaches to Incident Response don’t work and outline a new Incident Response framework for 2012 and beyond. He will draw from his extensive, in-the-trenches IR experience around the world to provide an informative, engaging discussion on a critical subject.

After Lunch Topic:

Password Cracking Class

Mario Chiock (Schlumberger), will provide a Password Cracking class. This class is free to all chapter members and all luncheon attendees. A USB drive, with a copy of the various tools, will be available for $20.00 (cash, check, or credit card paid in advance through Acteva)

Date:

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Time Schedule:

11:15 a.m. Registration / Networking
11:30 a.m. Luncheon / Chapter Business Meeting
11:55 a.m. Sponsor Presentation
12:00 noon Presentation
1:00 p.m. Adjourn Luncheon
1:30 - 4:00pm Password Cracking class.

Location:

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

Advance Registration Appreciated - Link to Acteva ---->

Meeting Sponsor:

AlertLogic delivers cloud-powered, managed solutions for IT security and compliance by combining patented technology and 24x7 monitoring by certified analysts. With over 1,000 enterprise customers, serviced directly by Alert Logic or through an IT service provider partner, Alert Logic�s Threat Manager and Log Manager provide the best of intrusion detection, network vulnerability assessment, log management and security monitoring. Alert Logic enables users to improve their security posture and comply with regulations and mandates without any capital expense, internal IT resources or protracted implementation times. Alert Logic is based in Houston, TX and was founded in 2002.
For more information, visit http://www.alertlogic.com/.

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 1:00 p.m. on the Monday 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
Advance Registration Appreciated - Link to Acteva :

Luncheon Meeting Fees

	Advance Registration	Late - On line or Walk in Registration (after 1:00 p.m. Monday)
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 Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) review will begin January 28th and run for 5 of 6 consecutive Saturdays until March 3rd. This 40-hour review and training class is a hands-on, lab, taught by an expert in the field with extensive SANS teaching experience.
Registration will be limited to the size of the classroom, so sign up now if you have interest- contact education@southtexas.issa.org The classes will be at Rice University.
The cost is $699 members; $824 non-members. At this time registration is full.
The CISSP review class will run every Monday from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm beginning January 23rd and ending April 16th . The sessions will be held at Rice University, Duncan Hall, in the Jamail Conference Room at 6100 Main, Houston Tx 77005. Please Note on 2/20 the session will be in room #307 Sewell Hall. The rate for ISSA / ISACA members is $370 and the non-member rate is $495. Please click the following here to register:

1-day CISSP overview/review class at end of April or early May.

Once again, please contact Joanne Ashland (education@southtexas.issa.org) to express your interest.

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 benfits:
(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:

Our TSBPA CPE provider number is 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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