The ISSA Puget Sound Chapter welcomes Dr. Oval Opedal as our guest speaker for our Thursday, August 19th at 6:30 Pacific meeting. Dr. Olav Opedal provides machine learning and AI consulting services. He holds a Bachelors in computer science, a Masters degree in clinical psychology, and a PhD in general psychology. Industry experience includes 20+ years … Read more
Join us at 6:30pm TONIGHT, July 15th for our monthly meeting featuring Karl Weaver! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83789953419?pwd=SDBsTUdwd0ZRYncxY2xVRG5KM1JOZz09(Please do NOT use the existing ISSA-PS meeting invite, it has expired) Karl Weaver is a bilingual-Mandarin speaking, senior wireless industry, mobile payments & device security executive in the smart card/semiconductor sectors. He joined aitos.io in February, 2020 as Global Business Development Director, based … Read more
Join us at 6:30pm Thursday June 17th for our monthly meeting featuring JJ Cranford from Cybereason. JJ is a Product Marketing Manager at Cybereason primarily responsible for the go-to market strategy of the Cybereason platform of products for endpoint protection, detection and response. Prior to joining Cybereason, JJ spent several years at Guidance Software (later OpenText … Read more
Please join us Thursday, May 20th at 6:30 pm Pacific for our special guest speaker, Eric Sanchez. Eric served 12 years at the Central Intelligence Agency developing offensive cyber operations and defensive strategies across the intelligence community and international partners against the Nation’s hardest targets. In addition, Eric was a CISO for a travel-tech startup, … Read more
The April Membership Meeting is tonight at 6:30 Pacific! Justin White will lead off the evening with his always entertaining and insightful Garden Fresh analysis on current Information Security events. Following Justin, our featured speaker this month will be Randy Pragman. Randy will discuss Bazacall AKA Dial-a-Botnet and how local businesses can help, a new … Read more
The ISSA Puget Sound chapter is pleased to have two very successful women share with us for our March Membership meeting on Thursday March 18th at 6:30pm! Jean Pawluk – Fried to a Crisp aka Lessons I learned The Hard Way Are you feeling a bit crispy around the edges ? Has your cynicism reached … Read more
Our featured speaker is Bryan Casper. Bryan is a 25 year cyber security veteran and the Director of Uber’s Threat Defense and Response program. This group proactively defends Uber’s cloud, enterprise, and on premise data centers through preventing and thwarting cyber security threats. Bryan’s previous roles include leading blue teams defending Microsoft’s Azure cloud, Microsoft Security Response … Read more
We are honored to have Ira Winkler, CISSP, CISO for Skyline Technology Systems and author of You Can Stop Stupid with us this month! Ira is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals, and has been named a “Modern Day James Bond” by the media. He did this by performing espionage simulations, where … Read more
Joe joined Cloudflare as its first Chief Security Officer in 2018. Previously, he was the CSO at Uber (2.5 years) and at Facebook (7 years) and held security and legal roles at eBay and PayPal. Joe also served 8 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, working as a prosecutor focused on technology-related crimes. In … Read more
Speaker: Randy Pargman Randy Pargman is the Senior Director of Threat Hunting and Counterintelligence at Binary Defense. In this role, Randy leads the Threat Hunting team in reverse engineering malware and developing new techniques for detecting signs of emerging threats and attacker behavior that evade or defeat traditional security solutions. He also leads the … Read more