The chapter is pleased to announce we are moving to the ITT-Tech campus in Clive for our monthly meetings.
The new address is:
1860 NW 118th Street
Clive, IA 50325
Beginning with our next meeting we also will be adding webcasting to ensure our members outside of the metro area have a chance to attend and connect. Watch for more information on that in a couple of weeks.
Date: Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Business Meeting
Format: Discussion
Speaker: N/A
This month’s ISSA-Des Moines Chapter Meeting will be a business meeting where we will discuss the vision for the next twelve months of the chapter. Some of the items on the agenda are:
Have an idea for a topic for future meetins? Feel free to leave a comment.
If you are not a member of ISSA and would like to visit to see what we are all about, please go here to register as a guest.
Location: Vangent
Address: 1401 50th Street, Suite 200 West Des Moines, IA 50266
The Des Moines ISSA chapter will not meet in December. Our next meeting will be in January.
Details on that meeting will be posted in January.
Date: Monday, November 28th, 2011
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Round Table
Format: Discussion
Speaker: N/A
Have an idea for a topic? Feel free to leave a comment.
If you are not a member of ISSA and would like to visit to see what we are all about, please go here to register as a guest.
Location: Vangent
Address: 1401 50th Street, Suite 200 West Des Moines, IA 50266
Date: Monday, July 25th, 2011
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Digital Forensics
Format: Presentation
Speaker: Doug Elrick
Doug has been the Director of Forensic Services for Digital Intelligence out of Milwaukee WI area for 9 years. He has recently moved back to Iowa and opened an office in the Des Moines where he conducts and oversees the computer forensic analysis and data production in civil matters. Doug has been has offered expert opinion testimony in local, state and federal court venues.
Doug also instructs law enforcement and corporate security investigators in proper forensic methodologies and in the use of common computer forensic applications and has partnered with Des Moines Area Community College Electronic Crimes Institute to offer a series of course.
Prior to joining Digital Intelligence in 2002, Doug worked for thirteen years as a forensic scientist for the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation where he conducted forensic examinations in the areas of drug analysis, toxicology, arson, trace evidence, serology, DNA and crime scene investigation. He started the computer forensic unit for the DCI laboratory in 1992.
Doug has been involved in computer forensic training since 1995. He has conducted presentations in basic and advanced computer evidence collection and processing for the Iowa Department of Public Safety, IACIS, FACT, Malaysian National Police, Japanese National Police, Italian National Police and officials from all twenty-seven countries in the European Union. Doug has also presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors meeting, FBI National Academy Re-trainer, and the US Department of Justice Science and the Law Conference.
If you are not a member of ISSA and would like to visit to see what we are all about, please go here to register as a guest.
Location: Vangent
Address: 1401 50th Street, Suite 200 West Des Moines, IA 50266
Date: Monday, July 26th, 2010
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Measuring and Communicating Risk with FAIR
Format: Speaker
Speaker: Kevin Riggins
Measuring and Communicating Risk with FAIR:
Measuring and communicating risk is a challenging task. Having a repeatable, well understood method of measuring risk that is based on a common taxonomy is very important. Factor Analysis of Information Risk provides both a framework for defining and understanding risk and a basic method of analyzing and communicating that risk.
Speaker Bio
Kevin Riggins, CISSP has over 22 years of experience in information technology and has focused on Information Security since 1999. He has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional since 2004 and currently works for a Fortune 500 financial service company where he leads a team of information security analysts responsible for internal consulting, risk assessments and vendor security reviews. He writes about various information security topics on his blog, Infosec Ramblings ( http://www.infosecramblings.com), has been published in (IN)Secure magazine, and is a frequent speaker at conference and industry association meetings. He has served as the technical editor for Syngress on several books; CISSP Study Guide, CompTIA Linux+ Certification Study Guide (2009 Exam), and Eleventh Hour Linux+.
If you are not a member of ISSA and would like to visit to see what we are all about, please go here to register as a guest.
Location: Buccaneer Computer Systems
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Date: Monday, May 24th, 2010
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Protecting Your Applications from Backdoors
Format: Speaker
Speaker: Clint Pollock
Protecting Your Applications from Backdoors:
How to Secure Your Business Critical Applications from Time Bombs, Backdoors & Data
With the increasing practice of outsourcing and using 3rd party libraries, it is nearly impossible for an enterprise to identify the pedigree and security of the software running its business critical applications. As a result backdoors and malicious code are increasingly becoming the prevalent attack vector used by hackers.
Whether you manage internal development activities, work with third party developers or are developing a COTS application for enterprise, your mandate is clear- safeguard your code and make applications security a priority for internal and external development teams.
In this session we will cover;
Speaker Bio
Clint Pollock is a Senior Solutions Architect at Veracode. Since 1997, he has also created security solutions for large-scale enterprise environments on behalf of CREDANT Technologies and Netegrity. In his current role, Clint helps globally distributed organizations evaluate, track, and mitigate their application security risk. Clint’s greatest strengths are his enthusiasm, experience and determination to help customers succeed in maintaining secure, compliant systems, and avoid the consequences and bad headlines that come with application security breaches. Clint resides in Chicago, IL.
If you are not a member of ISSA and would like to visit to see what we are all about, please go here to register as a guest.
Location: Buccaneer Computer Systems
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Josh pointed out that the date for Septembers meeting was incorrect. It is actually the 28th. I apologize for the confusion. The original post has been updated also.
-Kevin
Date: Monday July 27th, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Topic: Threat Matrix
Speaker: Guy Weaver
Guy Weaver is the Senior Systems Engineer for the Central Region at Purewire, Inc. Mr. Weaver has over twenty years experience in the IT industry with a broad range of skills. He holds many certifications including CISSP, CCSP, CEH and ITIL. Guy has worked for one of the largest health care systems in country, was a Networking Practice Manager for a global systems integrator, a Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems covering security and core infrastructure for a Fortune 10 account, and a Systems Engineer at Blue Coat Systems supporting WAN optimization and legacy web gateway customers.
Location: Regular meeting location at Buccaneer Computer Systems.
If you are not a member of ISSA and would like to visit to see what we are all about, please go here to register as a guest.
The Des Moines ISSA chapter is seeking individuals who are interested in speaking at our chapter meetings. The topics and dates we are needing to fill are:
08/24/2009
InfoSec Employment: Finding the Right Job and Hiring the Right Talent
09/29/2009
Security Incident and Event Management
10/26/2009
Regulatory Update: SOX, HIPAA, FISMA and Others
11/23/2009
Outsourced Security: Is it right for you?
If you are interested or know someone who might be, please use the contact form below to let our chapter President, Dave Nelson, know. Please include the date and topic in your note.
Thank you.
