Welcome to the Pittsburgh Chapter of ISSA

A local chapter of an independent, professional organization committed to improving the effectiveness of Information Security through awareness, education and networking with fellow Security professionals.

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Chapter Announcements

Security Forum

Registration is now open for the rescheduled 2020 Security Forum thsat will be held on Friday October 29th at the DoubleTree Hotel in Monroeville. More information on our Events page.

Chapter Meeting

The next meeting of the Pittsburgh Chapter of ISSA will be on Tuesday September 14th at our new meeting location will be The Koppers Building. 436 Seventh Ave in the Lower Level. Registration is at 10:30 am and the meeting starts at 11:00 am. Lunch will be server before noon.

Our first presenter, Rose Songer, GRC Manager with Seiso, will present 'Design the Path Forward: Security Awareness for the Indifferent Workforce’.

An organization may have a robust Security Program, but all it takes is a click of a button by a user or divulging certain information on a cold call for an incident to occur and take the organization down. Reduction of incidents are possible with increased security awareness training for the workforce, but it takes a successful implementation of a Security Awareness Program, constant reinforcement and a desire to learn from the workforce.

This presentation will take a holistic view of a Security Awareness Program, in which we will lay out design plans for creating an effective cyber security awareness program resulting in the metrics to prove it.

Rose Songer oversees all GRC services including execution teams and service delivery. She spent over the last 2 years developing, maturing and streamlining GRC services to deliver value to Seiso clients. Rose has a diverse IT and Security background spanning over 15 years in network security/administration, enterprise third party risk management, governance and security awareness. She has a Master's degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Advanced Networking. Rose likes to contribute to the Information Security Community by speaking at conferences on different GRC subjects such as; Third Party Risk, Security Programs, Security Awareness and ISO 27001:2013 implementation.

We will break for lunch after the first presentation then Sean Heffley, Senior Sale Engineer at LogRhythm, will present, 'Key Techniques Threat Actors Will Use On Your Network'.

We will analyze top techniques of how threat actors will try to infiltrate your environment. We will go in-depth on techniques such as;

* Command and Control (C2) communications and infrastructure

* Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs)

* Data exfiltration via DNS

…and more

Sean Heffley has been in IT for over 24 years and the past 9 years have been focused on cybersecurity. During his 6 years at LogRhythm, Sean has earned the respect of both current and prospective customers by being honest, knowledgeable and personable. Sean has worked with a variety of clients in every vertical, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to smaller organizations with the IT staff of 1. He has presented at many security events and welcomes deep technical discussions. Sean lives in Pittsburgh, Pa and raises 4 children (all under the age of 11). Hence, when Sean isn’t working, he spends the majority of his time playing with and cleaning up after his children. He also considers himself an expert on Disney Princesses, Sesame Street and Lego Batman. When he isn't working he enjoys geocaching with this children, discovering new trails on his mountain bike and lowering his embarrassing golf handicap.

Meeting location: The Koppers Building. 436 Seventh Ave on the Lower Level. Koppers Building

Cost: $10 for members of AITP, CISO, 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 sotacem@fnb-corp.com. Deadline for advance registration is Friday September 10th, there is an extra $5.00 charge for registration after this date.