Category Archives: Past Presentations

Come Join us for our upcoming Lunch Meeting: Securing AWS Infrastructure Presented by Derek Hill, MBA, CISSP Where: 111 SW Columbia St., Portland, OR 97201 (8th Floor) When: March 15th from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm (Come early we plan to start at … Continue reading →

Welcome to 2018. I can see the days getting longer and I am enjoying the sun while it lasts, here in mid-February. I completed my coursework, obtaining my GIAC GCIH in January. That gave me time to build a new-to-me … Continue reading →

From: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Where: Columbia Square (8th Floor), 111 SW Columbia Street, Portland, OR 97201 Speaker Bio: George Chamberlain, FBI Special Agent Cybersecurity Task Force Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) George Chamberlin leads the Cyber Program and the … Continue reading →

Come Join us for our November Lunch Meeting: Zero-Trust Networking & A New Approach to Enterprise Security From: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Speaker Bio: Ivan Dwyer, ScaleFT Abstract: BeyondCorp is a Zero Trust security framework modeled by Google that … Continue reading →

The October meeting hosted Christopher Paidhrin talking about Social Engineering. This talk was well attended and covered the theory behind the human element and how to improve employee engagement to combat social engineering. Check out the slides here: Social Engineering_v3

School has started again and with that, our ISSA year begins with a great talk about hacking a hackathon, next week. If you haven’t signed up for that, I highly encourage you to do so. With fall around the corner, … Continue reading →

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/issa-portland-september-hacking-a-hackathon-tickets-36792255627   Date: September 14th, 2017 From: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Speakers: Alexei Kojenov & Alex Ivkin Portland Building 1120 SW 5th Ave Portland, OR 97204 Speaker Bio: Alexei Kojenov is a Senior Application Security Engineer with years of … Continue reading →

Our March meeting was a 1/2 day Hackathon, with the platform provided by Security Innovation. The event was a great success! The event was a gamified, safe hacking space. Our first and second place winners went on and fully owned the … Continue reading →

LEARN CYBERSECURITY NOW! Join us at PDX Cyber Camp 2017! The camp will give you and other high school students a hands-on, introductory experience to cybersecurity principles, including hands-on implementation in Windows and Ubuntu. Cybersecurity is one of today’s hottest … Continue reading →