Editor-in-Chief: Tran Cheung
Notes from Newsletter Committee
Welcome to the (ISC)² New Jersey Chapter's October 2022 issue!
Special shoutout to Derek Allen for putting this issue together and Gio Mercado for editing all of our recordings every month!
Our goal is to provide the cybersecurity community with monthly New Jersey Chapter news, upcoming events and initiatives, and timely and relevant articles from our dedicated member volunteers.
We invite you to send any comments or suggestions to communications@isc2chapternj.org.
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Ken's Korner
Message from the President
Mostly by word of mouth now, our community is growing by leaps and bounds, as we barrel ahead towards reaching 400 members by the end of the year!
Earlier this month, most of our Board went to the (ISC)2 Security Congress to accept our award for being the #1 Chapter in North America. Thanks for our Board members, volunteers and active members, I couldn't be any prouder of our outstanding achievements!
For me, the highlight was not accepting the award, but it was building deeper connections with my fellow Board members and meeting chapter leaders from all over the world. I felt so welcomed by the larger cybersecurity community that week, it made me realize that we all have similar challenges and goals and that need to learn from each other in order to improve and grow.
Click here for some fun pics of us at the conference.
On a side note, we have some exciting news for those attending the Holiday Dinner.
Thank you all for your continued support as a member of this chapter!
Ken Fishkin
Welcome Aboard!
Welcome New Chapter Members!
Please join us in welcoming our newest chapter members!
Pedro Rocha, Lisette Vilanova, Servio Urgiles, Joshua Drucker, Irene Kopaliani, Jevin Kasselman, Sreeram Gutti, Karen Swift, Janet Nweke, David Kruse, Robert Dupuy, Mayank Nagpal, Ralph Peavy, Frank Gravato, Anicee Monfleury, Mark Hering, Campanella Godrey Jr., Erica Cunningham, Demond Cook, Eric Marshall, Jocelin De Leon and Rajani Menon!
Note for all potential members: Click here to watch a special video from our Welcoming Committee. In this video, they discuss why they love being a member of our chapter. Special thanks to Sammi Fishkin for producing this video!
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Happy Hour Recap
Happy Hour Recap
See photo of smiling faces from our members at our latest Happy Hour event that didn't want to leave! We had over 40 members attend this memorable event at The Brown Stone this month. For more pics, click here.
Thank you, Votiro for sponsoring three Happy Hour events for us this year, as well as our future International Chapter Conference!
Happy Hour - Sponsored by Votiro
Upcoming Events
November 2022 - Meeting Agenda
Date: Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Presenter:
Richard Dor - Senior Consultant at Pivot Point Security will be conducting a master class on the international cybersecurity framework, ISO 27001.
November 2022 - Public Speaking Workshop
Date: Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual Event
All (ISC)² New Jersey Chapter members are welcome to join us for this free public speaking program that will be held on a monthly basis.
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International (ISC)² Chapter Conference - SECON International
We'll be hosting our 1st International (ISC)² Chapter Conference!
Date: Thursday, December 1st, 2022
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST
Location: Gather.town
Cost: FREE! - to (ISC)² chapter members
CPEs: 3 credits
The SECON International conference includes over 30 international speakers with a multitude of topics across the cybersecurity spectrum.
Powerful Keynote Speakers include:
Nir Zuk, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Palo Alto Networks
Yuri Diogenes, Principal PM Manager at C+ AI Security CxE Team at Microsoft
Marnix Dekker, Head of Sector NIS - ENISA, the EU agency for cybersecurity
Participants will not only be enriching their knowledge but can also earn up to 3 CPEs! The virtual conference will be held on gather.town platform providing a unique opportunity to strengthen your network of professionals.
Registration for this conference is FREE to all chapter members!
Click here to register for this event.
Please visit the SECON International website at SECONglobal.org for more information.
The conference committee consists of leaders from the following chapters: Greece, Israel, Poland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Uganda.
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2023 Monthly Meetings
We have scheduled some great speakers already for 2023!
January Meeting – 1/26
Rob Bruder - NJCCIC Chief Operations Officer at State of New Jersey
Narayanan Subramaniam - Senior Manager QA at Uptycs
February Meeting – 2/23
Oliva Rose - Board of Directors at Cyversity
Matthew Wilson - Head of Security Operations & Incident Response at Dun & Bradstreet
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Positions and Opportunities
We have the following volunteer positions and opportunities available:
Volunteers for our International Conference - Click here
Not sure what you can offer but want help?
Please reach out to Ken Fishkin at president@isc2chapternj.org.
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Holiday Social
(ISC)² New Jersey Chapter Holiday 2022 Dinner - UPDATED!
Come join us for our Holiday Dinner!
The event is now sponsored by our friends at IGI Cyberlabs.
UPDATES!
- Member Jennifer Forte and John Manley's wife, Kim, will be providing musical entertainment for us!
- We'll have a special guest from (ISC)² headquarters join us as well, Tara Wisnieswki, EVP of Advocacy, Global Markets and Member Engagement!
Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Location: The Brown Stone, Metuchen, NJ
Cost: $25/member; $50/non member (open bar included)
This event will have tent seating with heaters.
It is a 5 minute drive from the Metuchen Train Station.
Please R.S.V.P. by December 1st
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Current Initiatives
Join Our Discord Server!
We now have over 200 members on our Discord Server!
By adding a Discord server to the mix of our communication tools, we now have real-time collaboration between our members 24/7.
For those members that want to communicate on a variety of topics between meetings using Discord, just send Ken an email at president@isc2chapternj.org to get the link.
The members of the Discord Committee are Bryon Singh, Tran Cheung, Giovanni Mercado, John Linkowsky , Krishna Nekkalapudi, Matthew Lang, Michael LeBlanc, Nikunj Shah, Brett Smith and Saurabh Sagdeo.
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JuMPstart Mentorship Program (JuMP)
The mission of this mentorship program is to connect cyber security professionals together to make and establish long lasting professional relationships that are mutually fulfilling. This includes mature cyber security professionals, students, career changer or anyone looking to grow!
For more information about the JuMP program, click here.
We are excited that our Series 4 program has kicked off successfully connecting over 50 Mentors and Mentees using our new Discord Server! Series 4 is running October 2022 through February 2023.
Over the next four months our mentors and mentees will be busily scheduling to meet each other and making wonderful connections that contribute to making this chapter what it is.
As a committee we have been making sure all the mentorship participants have the information needed to help make meaningful connections and as always we will be requesting feedback to make sure we can implement changes that improve and match our members needs.
Special thanks to Matt Lang and Adam Shuren for making this happen!
If you have any questions or want to know more information about the JuMP program, please reach out to the Mentoring Committee at mentoring@isc2chapternj.org. To make sure you are not missing any emails from the program, please also add mentoring@isc2chapternj.org to your contact list to allow our communications to make it through your inbox filters.
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Educational Training
NYU and (ISC)² New Jersey Chapter
The (ISC)² New Jersey Chapter and the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have formed a partnership to further educational and credentialing opportunities for students and the cybersecurity community.
In addition to participating in NYU Tandon events, lectures, career fairs, and other professional development activities, (ISC)² will offer students a full membership completely free giving them access to a network of local industry leaders. As part of the agreement, (ISC)² members can sign up for The NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) mailing list to stay current with research and events featuring leading faculty and industry partners at www.cyber.nyu.edu.
In collaboration with industry partners on the NYU Tandon Advisory Council, NYU Tandon School of Engineering will offer an astounding scholarship to (ISC)² members regardless of their country of residence.
The NYU Cyber Fellowship program is an elite, highly-technical Cybersecurity Master's Degree extends qualifying students with a scholarship that covers 75% of their tuition for the 10-course, part-time program. Additionally, the partnership will present a 15% off tuition to other online or on-campus graduate degree programs. As member-students will also be able to access networking and mentorship events with the (ISC)² New Jersey Chapter.
NYU Tandon has open enrollment for members looking to apply to NYU Cyber Fellows for the Fall or Spring semesters. There is NO GRE required (graduate admission guidelines apply) and they have also streamlined the application process which only takes 15 minutes with a decision in 15 days. Simply:
- Gather a Resume, a Statement of Purpose (250 words), an unofficial Transcripts, name two References
- Start application
- Enter application fee waiver code (worth $90) NYUTO21
- Choose MS in Cybersecurity, part-time program, and answer YES to the question about 'applying for Cyber Fellows’
- Review and Finalize - “SUBMIT”
To learn more about enrollment or if you have any questions, please contact tandon.online@nyu.edu. You can also call (646) 997-3623.
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Upcoming Presenters
Richard Dor, CISSP, CISM, CCAK, PECB ISO/IEC 27001 Certified Senior Lead Auditor, Information Security & GRC Consultant
Richard Dor is a highly motivated and resourceful Information Security & GRC Consultant with 15 years of experience designing, building, managing, auditing, and certifying secure and resilient information systems and security programs for both on-prem and cloud environments. He currently works as a Sr. GRC Consultant at Pivot Point Security, Inc.
When Richard is not working, he enjoys spending time with his family. Richard also likes reading, traveling, connecting with people, and studying for the next certification exam.
Richard Dor - Senior Consultant at Pivot Point Security will be conducting a master class on the international cybersecurity framework, ISO 27001.
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Recordings and Slides From Prior Meeting
October Monthly Meeting
See below for last month's meeting recordings:
Brian Barnier and Prachee Kale- Think.Design.Cyber.
Nehal Mehta and Dhaval Shah - Rainbow Secure
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Board of Directors
(ISC)² New Jersey Chapter 2022 Board of Directors
President:
Ken Fishkin
President@isc2chapternj.org
Secretary:
Mallik Prasad
Secretary@isc2chapternj.org
Treasurer:
Priyanka De Abrew
Treasurer@isc2chapternj.org
Education Director:
Jose Lagdameo
Director@isc2chapternj.org
Membership Chair:
John Manley
Membership@isc2chapternj.org
Communications Chair:
Tran Cheung
Communications@isc2chapternj.org
Mentorship Chair:
Matthew Lang
Mentoring@isc2chapternj.org