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December Monthly Meeting
The next chapter meeting will be held on Tuesday December 6th. The first presenters are Kyle Nellis, Account Executive for Akamai, and Jerry Mears, Sr, Systems Engineer at Akamai, will present 'Is it possible to microsegment your network without the need to rearchitect?'.
Intrusions will happen, but they do not need to be catastrophic. Lateral Movement Prevention and Least Privilege Access are core components of a Zero Trust information security model.
Securing the communications between workloads can be difficult. Understanding application dependencies and determining which components should be authorized to intercommunicate is a burdening task which quickly becomes overwhelming when performed manually. The market has seen a sprawl in microsegmentation technologies which are designed to help organizations enforce granular, least privileged network access across their workloads. With the number of microsegmentation vendors, understanding the key capabilities of these technologies can be challenging.
Is it possible to microsegment your network without the need to rearchitect? Join us for this session to participate in a discussion of these topics.
There will be a short break for lunch then Seven Johnson, Sr. Soultion Engineer for Sophos, will present 'Threat Report 2022 - Key Trends'.
Seven will review of key trends, attack and defense methodologies and cybersecurity related issues for 2022.
Seven Johnson is a Senior Security Engineer at Sophos, where he assists partners and customers with security related projects, vulnerability assessments, malware & threat hunting, endpoint detection and response and cybersecurity product training.
Seven holds several security industry certifications including CISSP and Security+ and has worked with various businesses and organizations of all types and sizes. His specialty areas include cybersecurity, encryption, email security, networking, shell scripting, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery.
These presentations will also be available virtually. Email Mike Sotace at mps0328@verizon.net for access.
Meeting location: The Koppers Building. 436 Seventh Ave on the Lower Level. Koppers Building
Registration is at 10:30 am and the meeting starts at 11:00 am.
Cost: $10 for members of Greater Pittsburgh CIO Group, InfraGard, ISACA, ISC2, ISSA, OWASP, Steel City InfoSec and TRCPA with advance registration. $15 for non-members with advance registration. $5 for students with advance registration
To register in advance for this meeting contact Mike Sotace at mps0328@verizon.net.
Deadline for advance registration is Friday December 2nd. There is an extra $5.00 charge for registration after this date.
The Security Forum will be held on Friday May 19th 2023 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Monroeville. If you are interested in purchasing a vendor table for the forum contact Mike Sotace at mps0328@verizon.net.