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Speaker: Hubert Ralph Bonnell, CISSP, CCSE – Security Engineer, Check Point Software Technologies, Inc.

Topic: DNS Security

Speaker: Daly Barnett, Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Topic: Humans Don’t Live In Corporate Networks

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Speaker: Steven Templeton, Ph.D.
Topic: Elder Fraud Prevention - Safeguarding Seniors and Empowering Caretakers (Get the slides here)

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Speaker: Dr. Roger R. Schell, President, Aesec Corporation
Topic: History of Software Security and the Marketplace (Get the slides here)

Speaker: Tolgay Kizilelma, ISACA Sacramento Chapter
Topic: Security Assurance - Building a Culture of Compliance (Get the slides here)

Speaker: Charles Blas, Director of Education
Topic: Tech Eve - Capture the Flag #2 - Password Cracking

The Sacramento Valley ISSA Director of Education, Charles Blas, is preparing interested participants for a Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge. This is the second in a series. Last month Charles started with Over the Wire Bandit web training to pick up the basics.

Speaker: JEFFREY WHEATMAN, SVP, Cyber Risk Evangelist, Black Kite
Topic: Communicating Cybersecurity and IT Risk Issues to Non-IT Audiences
Synopsis: We all think that we are brilliant at communicating with business stakeholders. But in reality this doesn’t always hold true when communicating with less technical audiences. This presentation will explore proven ways to get the message out. Attendees will learn:
• common mistakes made by IT and security leaders when communicating with their less technical audiences

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Speaker: Brian Cross, Regional Director for Public Sector & Education, Sumo Logic Inc.
Topic: An Open Discussion on Modernizing Cybersecurity Operations and the Continual Journey to Improve Security Posture

Speaker: Mark Heckman, Immediate past President, ISSA Sacramento Valley Chapter
Topic: Bad Security Metrics (Get the slides here)
Synopsis: Security professionals depend on security metrics, but measuring security is extremely difficult, at best, and many security metrics are useless, or worse. Attendees will learn:
• Why measuring security is so hard to do

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This will be a virtual meeting on Zoom led by ISSA Sacramento Director of Education Charles Blas. The Zoom link will be posted shortly before the meeting.

Speaker: Brit Barnes, CISSP, Sec+, CEH

Topic: Intelligence Preparation of the Cyber Environment (IPCE) (Presentation: https://docs.google.com/file/d/16sTwPk_2cg_639LiS6Hhm4DriltmLIJa/edit?fi...)
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Speaker: Dmitry Bezrukov, ITsecura.com and ISSA-Sacramento Chapter
Topic: ConfigServer Security and Firewall 

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ATTEND
The Security Composition Problem by Mark Heckman, Ph.D., CISSP and Chapter President emeritus

This month, we'll have our chapter meeting earlier in the month (to avoid crowding the holidays). After lunch, we'll play a security quiz game with prizes for the top three finishers.

This event is being sponsored by Check Point Software, Juniper Networks and Optiv.

Lunch is free for members. Members may bring a guest, but guests are requested to pay to help defray the cost of lunch.

Member sign up deadline is December 6th at Midnight.
Guest sign up deadline is December 4th.
Guest price $31.00 (billed via Paypal, which can be paid by credit card)

Meeting sponsor: Cribl
Speaker: Nick Heudecker, Sr Dir, Market Strategy, Cribl
Topic: Solving Security’s Data Problem

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