ISC2 New Jersey Chapter Newsletter

Editor-in-Chief: Tran Cheung

Editor's Notes for Issue #8

Welcome to our monthly (ISC)² NJ Chapter May 2021 Issue!
We hope you enjoy reading this publication and invite you to send any comments to communications@isc2chapternj.org.

Ken's Korner

Message From The President

Hi Everyone!

What an exciting month we had! We had our first virtual SECON 2021 conference and started our first mentorship program with IQ4!

Please read our recap below to learn more about the conference and to download the presentation materials.

For those that want to learn more about our mentorship program with IQ4, click here.

I want to thank everyone who attended the conference for making this unique event a hit. It was a great collaboration between the NJ Chapters of (ISC)² and ISACA. This event would not have been possible without the assistance of our many volunteers, sponsors and presenters.

I'd like to give special thanks to our volunteers:

Greeters:
Marcelo Ignacio, Keith Murillo-Stasiak, Ralph Migliore, Déja Santana, Andrew Wong and Andrew Haratine

Virtual Conference Designers:
John Manley and Pavel Lekhanov

SECON 2021 Committee:
Bob Henderson, Peter Koenig, Mallik Prasad, John Manley, Priyanka De Abrew, Bill D'Alia, Patricia Loud, Carl Neumann, Tran Cheung and Jose Lagdameo Jr.

Welcome Aboard!

Our Newest Chapter Members!

Ralph Migliore
Hasjonn Simmons
Jummy Adelakun-Adejuyigbe
David LaFond
Jennifer Bayuk
Charlie Fraiser
Adam Shuren
Thomas Hunt
Matthew Monteiro
Dashmesh Singh

Upcoming Events

Public Speaking Workshop - MEMBERS ONLY

This event is only open to (ISC)² NJ Chapter members
Date: Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Time: 7-8pm
Click here to register.

Conducted by Steven Santamorena, Arthur Hedge, and Ken Fishkin

June 2021 Meeting Agenda

NJ Chapter June 2021 Meeting will be held on Thursday, 6/24/2021.

Presenters:

Kathleen McGee – Partner at Lowenstein Sandler – White Collar Criminal Defense Practice
Peter Thermos – Founder, President of Palindrome Technologies

For detailed bios of the speakers, scroll down to the bottom of the newsletter.

Click here to register.

July 2021 Meeting Agenda

NJ Chapter July 2021 Meeting will be held on Thursday, 7/29/2021.

Presenters:

Mike Wilkes – Chief Information Security Officer / Adjunct Professor - Security Scorecard
Fernando Leitao – Director at Mastercard Data & Services – Risk management quantification

August 2021 Meeting Agenda

NJ Chapter August 2021 Meeting will be held on Thursday, 8/26/2021.

Presenters:

Joseph Perry - Director Of Education at Tetra Defense
TBD

If you are interested in presenting at this meeting, please reach out to Ken at president@isc2chapternj.org.

September 2021 Meeting Agenda

NJ Chapter September 2021 Meeting will be held on Thursday, 9/30/2021.

Presenters:

Raymond Blaine – Director of Cyber Research Center for West Point
Incident Response Workshop – Conducted by Boston Consulting Group

New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Coalition (NYMJCSC) - 2021 Conference & Workshop

The 2021 NY Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference will take place virtually on October 14th followed by a workshop on the 15th. NYMJCSC is now in its eighth year; featuring a keynote and sessions aimed at various aspects of information security and technology.

NYMJCSC will include several online workshops on October 15th featuring in-depth extended hands-on classroom-style educational courses to expand your knowledge and foster security discussions.

If you're interested in presenting at the conference, please reach out to Ken Fishkin at president@isc2chapternj.org.

Upcoming Presenters

Peter Thermos - President & CTO of Palindrome Technologies

Peter has over 20+ years of experience in Information Security and Assurance providing consulting to leading commercial organizations and conducting security research for US government organizations. As CTO of Palindrome Technologies, he is working as a subject matter expert with customers in several industry sectors including Local Government (e.g., Law Enforcement, Municipalities and Utilities), Telecommunication, Energy, Financial and Healthcare, in securing Enterprise Networks, Carrier-grade Networks and helping organizations secure emerging technologies including 5G, MEC, IMS-VoLTE, M2M, IoT and V2X.

Peter is the primary author of the book “Securing VoIP Networks” by Addison-Wesley and has been a speaker at various conferences (i.e. IEEE, ICIW, VoN, SANS, Blackhat, MIS InfoSec, ISSE) and has published research papers in academic and industry journals (i.e., IEEE, ACM, ISSA, IEC) and articles in trade magazines such as Information Security, ZDNET, Forbes, TechTarget and Wired. Furthermore, he has been the Co-Chair for IEEE CQR Workshop, IEEE World Forum IoT and committee member of ICCWS.

Peter holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, NY and he is a senior member of IEEE and member of IETF, ACM and ISSA.

Kathleen McGee - Partner at Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Kathleen is a highly accomplished technology and regulatory lawyer and former prosecutor with more than 17 years of experience in the public sector. Her practice has a dual focus on compliance and investigations.

At Lowenstein Sandler LLP, she previously served as technology and regulatory counsel for The Tech Group and White Collar Criminal Defense practice, with a focus on compliance and investigations, and is now currently a partner.

Kathleen holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor degree from Boston University's School of Law. She is also a board member for the Tyler Rigg Foundation and EdReports.org.

SECON 2021

SECON 2021 Recap

We had some great speakers at SECON 2021 and based on the positive feedback about the virtual platform, we will continue to use it for some of our upcoming events. For more information about the speakers at the event, click here.

Whether you missed some or all of the speakers at the conference, you can access their presentations here. Since the virtual platform lacked recording capabilities, we were not able to record the presentations.

Congratulations to the winners of the SECON 2021 Raffle:

Patrick Ho
Said Benhamou
Andrew Fuller
Beth Schreier

Thanks again for the generous support of our sponsors, who helped make SECON 2021 a reality!

Hope to see you at SECON 2022!