This month the Grand Rapids ISSA brings you a diverse panel of information security professionals and champions that will share their perspectives on the industry, their personal experiences as minorities in the field, and how we can work together toward…
Continue Reading→All 8 CISSP Domains in 55 Minutes
Grand Rapids ISSA presents "All 8 CISSP Domains in 55 Minutes" presented by professor Andrew Rozema If you have ever thought about becoming a CISSP, or if you are a CISSP and wonder what happened to the 10 domains, this…
Continue Reading→The Many Faces of Security Testing
Grand Rapids ISSA presents "The Many Faces of Security Testing" presented by Dr. Jared DeMott, Founder & CEO of VDA Labs. What do you think of when you hear the word “Security Testing”? Compliance? Pentesting? InfoSec Maturity checks? Code auditing?…
Continue Reading→Grand Rapids ISSA presents “DDos Attacks, Mitigation, War Stories and (hopefully) Demonstrations” by Jorel Van Os, CISM, CEH
Jorel will start us off with a layer 7 DDos attack and mitigation demonstration and then take us through a brief history of DDos attacks including some of which he has personally experienced on his own servers. He'll then discuss…
Continue Reading→IT Leaders Panel, Cyber Security Trends from a Leadership Perspective, April 19
Grand Rapids ISSA presents the April 2019 Panel Discussion: “IT Leaders Panel: Cyber Security Trends from a Leadership Perspective” with our distinguished IT leader panelists: Ben Williams, Chief Information Officer at Davenport University; Joseph (Augie) D’Agostino, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Spectrum…
Continue Reading→ATM stands for Attackable Transaction Machine, March 15
We are excited to have Aaron Herndon return to give another engaging talk! Aaron has a mixed IT background in system hardening, development operations, risk management, and blue team operations. A few years ago he made the transition into offensive…
Continue Reading→Blue Team Engineering: It Takes A Village
Join us for February's GR-ISSA free event! Featuring networking and a presentation on Blue Team Engineering within the healthcare space. About this Event Agenda: 2:30pm to 3:00pm Social Networking 3:00pm to 4:30pm Blue Team Engineering: "It Takes a Village" 4:30pm…
Continue Reading→Application Security on Friday, January 18
We appreciate Rajiv Das' presence, his presentation may be viewed by clicking here. Where is this event? At Davenport University, their Lettinga Main Campus. Located at 6191 Kraft Ave SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49512. We will be in the Sneden…
Continue Reading→2018 GR-ISSA Holiday Party
Come join us on Friday at 4:00 PM! Not the typical presentation, instead we will be meeting to eat, drink , and converse. Simply click here to register on Eventbrite. Location: 7 Monks Taproom Grand Rapids740 Michigan Street NortheastGrand Rapids,…
Continue Reading→2019 Board of Directors
We have a fresh board, therefore we are excited to kick off 2019. GR-ISSA looks forward to a bright future. Aphrodite JonesPresident Jared DeMottVice President Molly GuthrieSecretary Ruth FergusonTreasurer Andrew RozemaEducation Nick DefoeVendor Relations Aaron BreggProfessional Outreach Austin BollingerWebmaster Corwin…
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