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.

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:

1. New meeting location
2. Webcasts of meetings – outreach to rural or distant areas of the state
3. Absorption of Eastern Iowa members (chapter did not reorganize)
4. New format for monthly meeting topics: round table, internal speaker, external speaker
5. Elections

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

Details on that meeting will be posted in January.

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

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

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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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.

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.