SE Regional ISSA 2022 Conference
The first Southeast Regional ISSA conference is scheduled for September 20 in Huntsville, Alabama. This event will combine several of the chapters throughout the Southeast. North Alabama, Central Alabama, and Atlanta have come together for this one day event preceding the National Cyber Summit. There will be multiple speakers and panels focused on the needs of ISSA membership as well as sponsors and exhibitors sharing a wealth of cyber security information.
Sept 20
Huntsville, Alabama
Agenda
September 20
8:00-9:00
Setup for Sponsors, team
Location: Jackson Center
9:00-10:00
Registration; networking; coffee & pastries; exhibitor and sponsor time
Location: Pub
10:00-10:10
Welcome and Introduction; acknowledge chapters
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Location: Discovery Hall
10:10-11:00
Keynote Speaker – Snehal Antani
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Location: Discovery Hall
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Topic: Are you secure? Don’t wait for a breach to find out
11:10-12:00
Technical Speaker – Dustin Childs, CISSP
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Location: Discovery Hall
Topic: Bug Bounty
12:00-1:00
Lunch​
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Location: On Premises
1:00-1:50
CREATING AND GROWING AN ISSA CHAPTER PANEL
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Location: Discovery Hall
2:00-2:50
Ben McGee, Owner of CyberProtex​
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Location: Discovery Hall
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Topic: Certification Confusion
3:00-3:30
Networking; vendor visits; refreshments
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Location: Pub
3:30-4:30
Closing Keynote - Klint Walker CISA
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Location: Discovery Hall
4:30-5:00
Closing
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Location: Discovery Hall
The Speakers
2022
FEATURED INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Keynote
CEO & Co-founder of  Horizon3.ai
Snehal Antani
CEO & Co-founder of  Horizon3.ai
Snehal Antani is an entrepreneur, technologist and investor. He is CEO & Co-founder of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity company using AI to deliver autonomous penetration Testing.
Prior to Horizon3, Snehal served as the first Chief Technology Officer for Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As a member of the Commander’s executive team, he led AI, innovation, and digital transformation initiatives for the command.
Before joining US Special Operations, Snehal was CTO & SVP at Splunk, held multiple CIO roles at GE Capital, after starting his career as a Software Engineer at IBM.
Snehal earned a Masters in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic University (RPI), a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University, and holds 16 patents.
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Are you secure?
Don’t wait for a breach to find out
Is your organization secure? Do you know if you’re logging the right data? Are all of your
security controls configured correctly? These are key questions that most organizations
struggle to answer.
Security teams are trying to do the right thing. They’re securing endpoints, collecting
logs, training analysts to quickly search for IoCs, improving their dashboarding and
alerts, and trying to automate low-hanging fruit fix-actions via SOAR.
The problem is that security teams need to get it right every time, but threat actors only
need to get it right once. In this session, Snehal Antani, CEO and co-founder of
Horizon3.ai, will discuss how organizations can harden their security postures and
enable their blue teams by helping them verify their security readiness by finding
and fixing exploitable vulnerabilities before the bad guys.
Attendees will:
· Learn about real-world attacks that enabled attackers to escalate privileges to become domain admin and compromise their AWS VPC
· Discover how they can still be vulnerable despite having state-of-the-art tools being in place
· Hear why the Find+Fix+Verify loop is critical for building a purple team culture
· See the role autonomous pentesting plays in empowering and augmenting
Dustin C. Childs, CISSP
Sr. Communications Manager
Dustin C. Childs is a part of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), which is the world’s largest vendor agnostic bug bounty program. Dustin began his infosec journey in the late 1990’s at the Air Force Information Warfare Center. He then transitioned from active duty to defense contractor. Following this role, Mr. Childs worked in the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing group, where he served as a case manager in the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) with a focus on addressing vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system and in Microsoft’s developer tools. In his current role, Mr. Childs creates, implements, and oversees communications programs, both internal and external, that promote the work of ZDI and its researchers.
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Closing Keynote
Klint Walker
DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Klint Walker is the Cyber Security Advisor for Region IV which covers Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. As the CSA, Klint is the liaison between Federal services and State, Local, territorial and Tribal Governments, Critical Infrastructure and Private Industry. He serves as the focal point for communications to promote Cyber Preparedness, incident response, risk mitigation and situational awareness. He provides direct coordination, outreach, and regional support in order to protect cyber components essential to the sustainability, preparedness, and protection of the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) and State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) governments
Mr. Walker has previously held positions as an Information Systems Security Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services where he assisted in establishing the Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC).
Mr. Walker was also held the position of Chief Information Security Officer for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). In this role he was responsible for the operational resiliency of classified networks and facilities in adherence with DoD Standards and guidelines.
The Venue
6001 Moquin Dr NW
Huntsville, AL 35806
The quality of the seating, food, drinks, service, and other amenities set business class apart from other travel classes. At Jackson Center, they cater to business with first-rate service and amenities in a setting of the highest caliber and technologically advanced.
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