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.
A special thanks to our chapter sponsors
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Chapter Announcements
Security Forum
The rescheduled 2020 Security Forum will be held on Friday October 29th at the DoubleTree Hotel in Monroeville. More information will be forthcoming in August. This is our all day charity event that will have presentations and many Security vendors to help you with your Security needs.
Chapter Meeting
The next meeting of the Pittsburgh Chapter of ISSA will be on Tuesday August 10th 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, Ken Dickey, VP Business Development, Cadre Information Security, will present our annual ‘Microsoft Sentinel and the Modern SOC’.
Microsoft is, very quickly, becoming one of the largest security companies in the world. In this presentation we’ll provide a brief outline of the Defender platform and how it integrates with Azure Sentinel, Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM. We’ll then discuss the challenges of integrating those technologies into a modern SOC.
Ken Dickey heads the Business Development department at Cadre. With over 30 years of experience in information technology, Mr. Dickey has established himself as an expert on IT security architectures and design.
We will break for lunch after the first presentation then Seven Johnson is a Security Engineer at Sophos, will present ‘MDR Overview – Why You Should Be Talking About This’. This presentation will review the current cyber-threats landscape and show why MDR is important in today’s rapidly changing world.
Seven assists partners and customers with security strategies, vulnerability assessments, security hardening, threat hunting, endpoint detection and response and cybersecurity training.
For the past 20-years, Seven has worked with many businesses and organizations of all types and sizes. His specialty areas include cybersecurity, encryption, mail security, networking, shell scripting, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery.
Seven is a native of Southern California but he now calls Western Pennsylvania home.
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 August 6th, there is an extra $5.00 charge for registration after this date.