Central Maryland Chapter of ISSA

Membership Meeting 7/26/2023
2023-07-26 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | MIC – Maryland Innovation Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Dr, Columbia, 21046
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: 2023-07-26 Meeting Slides
Speaker Slides: Universal Cyber Intelligence Briefing
New Cybersecurity Policy Considerations — Distribution Copy

Topic: Wide World of Cyber
The need to validate that cybersecurity policies and procedures remain sufficient (or if not are updated/revised/expanded as needed) to appropriately protect the organization relative to new and emerging risks that emanate from new technologies, operational paradigm shifts, and a continually evolving threat landscape. This list includes:

Operations Technology (OT) & Internet of Things
Artificial Intelligence /Machine Learning
Cloud Computing/Shared Public Infrastructure (including Global Communications)
Quantum Computing
Blockchain
5G Networks / Smart City Infrastructure
Return to Office (RTO)
Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality
Biometric Authentication
Autonomous Vehicles
Wearable Technology
Drones
Smart Homes

Speaker: Jason Taule, Cyber Advisory Council Chair and CISO-In-Residence, of the Maryland Innovation Center (MIC)

Jason Taule is a 30+ year information assurance and cybersecurity veteran who has worked in both the intelligence community and commercial sectors first consulting to Federal agencies and then serving as inside CISO and CPO both within Government and at large systems integrators like General Dynamics and CSC.
Mr. Taule helped build the original DARPA CERT, helped develop the first computer security programs at the VA and NASA, and revised the Risk Assessment Methodology still used throughout the Federal Government. Mr. Taule helped author the Maryland Data Privacy Law, led a multi-million-dollar global cyber security practice for a large international consulting firm, ran the team responsible for HIPAA complaint investigations for OCR for 3 years, and for the last 20 years has been a luminary in the US Health IT sector helping hundreds of systems earn their accreditations and avoid compromise. Mr. Taule previously served as the inside CISO and VP of Standards for HITRUST, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining the Common Security Framework (CSF).
Mr. Taule currently serves as the Cyber Advisory Council Chair and CISO-In-Residence, of the Maryland Innovation Center (MIC), an advanced business incubator helping companies in the greater Washington-Baltimore metroplex start and grow. In this capacity, Mr. Taule oversees and directs the cyber activities in which the MIC engages. This includes developing and providing assessment, training, and enhancement programs designed to help residents and affiliates understand, build, and maintain programs of cyber hygiene, developing content and cultivating partnerships and support services to recognize trends and respond to emerging threats, and serving in an CISO advisory capacity with respect to fulfilling customer assurance and regulatory mandates, meeting cyber requirements necessary to raise investment capital, and managing risk to achieve maximum exit valuation.

ISSA Chapter Leader Meeting
2023-07-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-05-19 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-03-17 13:00 - 14:00

DC Metro Cyber Security Summit
2023-07-20 07:30 - 18:00
The Tenth Annual DC Metro Cyber Security Summit connects C-Suite & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts. Admission is $195 each, giving you access to all Interactive Panels, Discussions, Catered Breakfast, Lunch & Cocktail Reception.

Independence Day
2023-07-04

Membership Meeting 6/28/2023
2023-06-28 17:00 - 19:00 | MIC – Maryland Innovation Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Dr, Columbia, 21046
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: 06-28-2023 Meeting Slides
Topic: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)

DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program was designed to provide increased assurance to the DoD that a DIB contractor can adequately protect sensitive unclassified information (i.e., FCI and CUI) at a level commensurate with the risk, and accounting for information flow down to its subcontractors in a multi-tier supply chain. CMMC was initially implemented as an interim DFARS rule in September 2020 (DFARS Case 2019-D041). In March 2021, in response to over 850 public comments, the program was modified and streamlined to CMMC 2.0. The revised CMMC Program aligns with existing cybersecurity models. Once implemented through the rulemaking process, when applicable through acquisitions vehicles, CMMC requirements will be required for prime contractors and their subcontractors. While the rule is being finalized, it is important to continue to prepare now! Come learn more about CMMC 2.0 and recommended next steps.
Speaker: Dawn M Greenman, Program Manager Cybersecurity Compliance for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)

Dawn M Greenman is Program Manager Cybersecurity Compliance for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). In this position, she oversees the cybersecurity compliance and supply chain risk management strategy across the organization. Since 2013, she has ensured JHU/APL’s compliance with DFARS 7012 and NIST SP 800-171. During this time, she developed relationships with the small business community and learned of the unique challenges small businesses had meeting the cybersecurity requirements. Ms. Greenman became an advocate for small businesses. She helps lead working groups with DoD and industry to develop strategies to help small businesses improve the protection of controlled unclassified information.
Through JHU/APL, Ms. Greenman also worked for 3 ½ years with DoD CIO and DoD Office of Sustainment and Acquisition to develop and support the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program.
Ms. Greenman holds an undergraduate degree in Information Systems with a concentration in Homeland Security and an Executive Masters of Business Administration from The University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School Of Business. She is a Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP) and holds the GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC) certification.

Juneteenth
2023-06-19

2023 ISSA Chapter Leadership Summit
2023-06-06

Memorial Day
2023-05-29 08:00 - 17:00

Membership Meeting 5/24/2023
2023-05-24 17:00 - 19:00 | MIC – Maryland Innovation Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Dr, Columbia, 21046
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: 2023-05-24 Meeting Presentation
Speaker Slides: None

Topic: The Value Of Engaging Cybersecurity Communications
Keeper Security Director of Global Communications Anne Cutler will share her unique career path from anchoring the evening news in a small town in Wyoming to leading international communications for a global cybersecurity provider. Through her unusual background, Anne has developed a deep appreciation for the value of conveying complicated messages in plain language quickly, clearly, and accurately across all platforms, to include traditional and emerging media. She will discuss how she’s applied lessons from her national television experience to handling crisis communications; securing positive, proactive press; and building enduring relationships with journalists, partners, and stakeholders. Anne will explain the critical importance of communication in the ever-expanding field of cybersecurity with real-world examples, including the Shields Up campaign at the onset of the war in Ukraine and the unprecedented response to the Apache Log4J vulnerability.
Speaker: Anne Cutler, Keeper Security

Anne Cutler is a communications professional specializing in cybersecurity, with more than 15 years of industry experience and proven track record of growing brand awareness for organizations. Anne is the Director of Global Communications for Keeper Security, the leading provider of best-in-class password management, secrets management, privileged access, secure remote access and encrypted messaging. Anne leads public relations, cybersecurity research, analyst relations, social media, as well as all other internal and external communications for Keeper.
Prior to Keeper, Anne worked in government as the media strategist for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T). At CISA, Anne brought cybersecurity to the forefront of American consciousness through messaging and media engagement for the nation’s lead cyber defense agency. Anne was the communications lead for CISA’s Shields Up campaign- the agency’s cybersecurity response to the war in Ukraine. She conducted crisis communications response for major cyber incidents including Colonial Pipeline, JBS, and Kaseya ransomware attacks, and Apache Log4j vulnerability.
Anne began her career as a television news anchor and reporter at KCWY News in Casper, Wyoming. Her award-winning broadcasting career would take her to KOLO 8 in Reno, Nevada; WGNO News in New Orleans, Louisiana; and FOX 5 DC in Washington, DC, where she worked as an anchor, reporter, contributor and host, from hard-hitting breaking news to politics, exclusive reports, long-format, features, entertainment and talk shows.
She’s covered the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation, high-profile trials including the first criminal trial for Paul Manafort and major breaking news stories including the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper, as well as uncovering a major crime ring in Virginia through tips received from her reporting. Anne’s been to the Super Bowl sidelines and World Series, done corkscrews in a fighter jet, been hit by flying fish in the Louisiana bayou, in the eye of a damaging hurricane along the Gulf Coast, and along fire lines in Wyoming, California and Nevada.
Anne is originally from Northern California and studied at University of California, Los Angeles, where she double majored in Mass Communications and Political Science. Her husband Joe is a Lt. Colonel in the US Marines and they have two sons, Brooks and Beau.

BSides Charm
2023-04-29 - 2023-04-30 | Sheraton Baltimore North, 903 Dulaney Valley Rd, Towson, MD, 21204, United States
BSidesCharm is a regional Security BSides held in the Baltimore region of Maryland. It operates under the umbrella principles of Security BSides as a larger community project within information security. BSides aims to offer small, intimate events where all participants can engage each other to help develop connections, friendships, and network with different industry professionals.

We recognize the value of engaging a smaller audience and being the big fish in a small pond. Every organization will have different goals and priorities, so we offer different levels of participation for every individual, group, or organization. We specifically designed several different options for any sized organization to participate in and support this event.

Membership Meeting 4/26/2023
2023-04-26 17:00 - 19:30 | Convergint | Federal, 6650 Eli Whitney Dr, Suite 400, Columbia, MD, 21046, United States
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: 2023-04-26 Meeting Presentation
Speaker Slides: Cyber 911 Presentation
Click Here to view promotional Video

Topic: Who ya gonna call?
If there was something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? The answer is obviously, the Ghostbusters! Now if you looked outside your window, and noticed that your neighbor’s house had caught on fire, who ya gonna call? 911, and ask help from your local fire department! Let’s say you saw a bad car crash, and emergency services are needed urgently, who ya gonna call? 911 again, and ask for an ambulance or local EMT to be dispatched as quickly as possible! Now lets say that an elderly member of your community receives an email from someone that claims to be Microsoft, and demands that they send thousands of dollars in “licensing fees” to avoid criminal prosecution, who ya gonna call? That last one is where people suddenly don’t have a good answer. During a cyber emergency, most people don’t have the luxury of figuring out how to call for help on their own. We will discuss a number of strategies that cybersecurity professionals can use to help answer this last question, and hopefully stimulate good discussions on how we can better protect our communities from the growing cyber threat!

Speaker: Colin Hamill – Founder & IT Solutions Designer, Sentinel Forge Technologies
Colin has always had a deep fascination and passion for working with computers and using them to solve problems. This passion led Colin to study Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he first met his now-wife, Melanie. It led him to a more than 15-year career as an Enterprise Presales Solutions Designer, where he would build solutions for his clients using different pieces of technology as “building blocks” to solve their technical problems. Regardless of the specific technologies included, Colin strove to communicate his solutions & designs in a clear & comprehensible way, free of the jargon and alphabet-soup acronyms that can make the IT industry inaccessible for most of the population. His passion drove him to continue his education, and he attended night classes at Loyola University after work and he earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA), with a focus on Information Systems. Colin’s MBA showed him how he could use his “technology building blocks” to solve his clients business problems & their technical problems at the same time.
Colin recently started his own business, Sentinel Forge Technologies, after seeing the impact on fuel supplies after the Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack of May 2021. Colin has focused his efforts on combating the ever-increasing threat of Ransomware and Cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure and to help train the next generation of Cyber 911s. He believes that protecting America’s food supply is of utmost importance and that securing it will mean protecting every link in the agriculture supply chain, both large & small.

Used Electronic Collection
2023-04-22 | Winters Mill Hugh School, 560 Gorsuch Rd, Westminster, MD, 21157
Used Electronics Collection & Recycling – Carroll Technology Council
Celebrate the Earth and the life cycle of your used electronics by coming out to Winters Mill High School on Earth Day. Bring your electronics that have outlived your use…

Government Procurement Conference
2023-04-19
Join us at the Government Procurement Conference (GPC), a national event fostering small business success.
GPC will take place on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Learn more at the GPC Website.
Meet and network with hundreds of government and business exhibitors. Learn updated information about agency small business goals and priorities. Distribute information about your company. Find organizations looking to work with small, minority-owned, women-owned, service-disabled Veteran-owned, 8a, and HUBzone businesses.
Participate in 4 key activities:

Exhibit Hall: Meet government procurement personnel, small business specialists, prime contractors and small business partners;
Matchmaking: Participate in 1:1 matchmaking sessions with government buyers and prime contractors;
Education: Attend education sessions focused on small business topics;
Networking: Network with other attendees to develop partnership opportunities.

Girl Scout STEM Badge Event
2023-03-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Morgan State University, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD, 21251, United States
Girl Scout STEM Badge Event!!
2:00-4:00 pm – March 25, 2023
Morgan State University
University Student Center; Room 316
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD 21251
March is Women’s History Month, a designated to celebrate the past, current and future achievements of women. In honor of this highly needed exposure, we are holding a FREE opportunity for Girl Scouts to earn the following STEM badges.

Making Games (Brownie)
Game Visionary (Senior)
Basic Cybersecurity Badge (Daisy, Brownie, Cadet and Junior)

Activities will be led by STEM Professional Women and Morgan State University students. There is not charge to participate and earn your badge, but space is limited. We will be providing a certificate of complettion, but not the physcal badge. Refreshments will be servied. Register by emailing mdstemfest@gmail.com. with the number of girls scouts, the level and which badge they will be working towards.

Membership Meeting 3/22/2023
2023-03-22 17:00 - 19:30 | Convergint | Federal, 6650 Eli Whitney Dr, Suite 400, Columbia, MD, 21046, United States
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: 2023-03-22 Meeting Slides
Speaker Slides: 2023-03-22 Security Architecture Post Covid

Topic: Security Architecture in the Age of Covid
Security Architecture was hard enough, but then Covid sent all of your employees home. A Remote Access infrastructure meant for a fraction of your employees now had to support everyone. Three years later no one wants to go back into the office. Your security architecture needs to adapt to secure your employees now wherever they may be, how are you going to do it?

Speaker: Christopher McGranahan, Director of Security Architecture at BackBlaze
Chris McGranahan currently works as the Director of Security Architecture and Engineering at Backblaze. He has more than twenty years of experience in cybersecurity in a wide variety of roles in multiple industries.

Beer N' Bots
2023-02-23 17:00 - 20:00
Beer N; Bots is a powerful, action-packed, hugh-energy, family-friendly business networking event that generates support for the Baltimore Robotics Center,
Robotics demos & Competitions | Live entertainment | Beer, Wine & Sodas | Lite Fare | Networking

Membership Meeting 2/22/2023
2023-02-22 17:00 - 19:30 | Convergint | Federal, 6650 Eli Whitney Dr, Suite 400, Columbia, MD, 21046, United States
Click Here to register for the February 22, 2023 ISSA Membership Meeting
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: Membership Meeting, February 22, 2023
Speaker Slides: 2023-02-22 Making the Shift to Risk-Based – Brown

Topic: Risk-Based Security
With so many cybersecurity technologies and services available, how do organizations get started with evaluating the managed detection and response (MDR) option that is right for them? Lyndon Brown, Pondurance Chief Strategy Officer weighs in on how to select the MDR provider that fits your needs best. In this session, Brown will discuss:

How to shift to risk-based security.
The ongoing evolution of the MDR space .
Questions to ask MDR providers during the selection process.

Speaker: Lyndon Brown
Mr. Lyndon Brown brings a career focus in building high-growth technology companies to Pondurance where he is responsible for Product Management, Corporate Development, Marketing and driving cross-functional performance. Prior to joining Pondurance, Lyndon served as Vice President of Business Development at FireEye Mandiant, where he focused on strategic growth initiatives. As an executive, Lyndon has successfully led product management, M&A, and global partnerships at firms such as Verodin (acquired by FireEye) and Endgame (acquired by Elastic).

Click Here to register for the February 22, 2023 ISSA Membership Meeting

Membership Meeting 1/25/2023
2023-01-25 17:00 - 19:30 | HubSpot—The Gathering Place on the Gateway, 6724 Alexander Bell Drive Hub Spot, Suite 105, Columbia, MD, 21046
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: Membership Meeting, January 25, 2023

Speaker Slides: Ransomware A Risk Management Strategy Jan 2023

Topic: Ransomware: A Risk Management Strategy
Organizations’ globally are dealing with a scourge in ransomware. Just note the following statistics:

Experts estimate that a ransomware attack will occur every 11 seconds in 2021. (Cybercrime Magazine, 2019) and
The average ransom fee requested has increased from $5,000 in 2018 to around $200,000 in 2020. (National Security Institute, 2021)

It is clear the ransomware is here to stay. So the strategy must move beyond just prevention, to How do you manage the inevitable ransomware event? Our discussion will look at some key pillars of cybersecurity risk management and a few practical things to have in place preferably before you are a victim. Attendees will obtain tools, steps and processes necessary to ensure a ransomware event does not leave them without a way to continue operations.

Speaker: Danyetta Fleming Magana, Covenant Security
Danyetta Fleming Magana is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), F. ISRM whom founded Covenant Security Solutions in 2003. Her goal is to push the envelope regarding how we think about our information and find new and innovative ways to secure our digital way of life. Mrs. Magana is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) a globally recognized certification in the information security arena. She has been published in the and interviewed as an expert on Federal News Radio’s “Mark Amtower Show.” In 2001, Mrs. Magana received the Black Engineer of the Year Award for the “Most Promising Engineer in Government.” Mrs. Magana presently serves on several advisory boards and also previously served as a Fellow with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), a Washington DC based think tank that briefs Congress, Senate and the Senior Executives of the U.S. Federal government on matters related to Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure. In addition, Mrs. Magana was a recipient of the Army’s Achievement Medal for Civilian Service. Her company was recognized by Diversity Business for 2014, 2012 and 2011 as one of the “Top 500 African American Owned Business’ in the US”. In addition her company was honored in the Inc. 5000, as one of America’s Fastest Growing Companies for 2014. Lastly, her company was recognized by CIO Review Magazine as one of the “20 Most Promising Enterprise Security Companies in 2015″. Mrs. Magana is a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Engineering.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2023-01-16

Christmas Day
2022-12-25

Membership Meeting 12/14/2022
2022-12-14 17:00 - 19:30 | HubSpot—The Gathering Place on the Gateway, 6724 Alexander Bell Drive Hub Spot, Suite 105, Columbia, MD, 21046
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: Membership Meeting, December 14, 2022
Speaker Slides: Supply-Chain-Security_Supplier-Contractor-Relationships-in-Negotiated-Contracts-12-14-2022

Topic: Supply Chain Security: Supplier/Contractor Relationships In Negotiated Contracts
Over the past 5 years, the world has seen unprecedented interest-in and allocation-of resources toward Cyber Security in both the public and private sectors. The Supply-Chain has been stressed to its very limits and Third-Party relationships have been similarly stressed with the “trust but verify-verify-verify” protocol meaning more today than ever before. Pre- and Post- Covid, our relationships with our Business partners have taken on never before seen uncertainty in supply categories for security, reliability, and visibility, as to who is providing what and how secure it will be upon arrival. At the heart of these Business partner relationships are Contracts … and provisions within Contracts which stipulate 1) information and product security requirements; 2) adherence to Cyber Security Frameworks (CSFs), and 3) the providing of evidence (proof) which demonstrates the “Cyber Maturity” of a counterparty. During the December 14th 2022 presentation to ISSA-Md, the Information Systems Security discussion will center on Standard Cyber Security Contract Provisions which have been dictated by Risk Analysis Tenets and overlapping Cyber Security Frameworks (such as NIST, ISO, Cobit, etc.) as well as legal requirements in the FAR, the DFARS, and CMMC 2.0, which will affect U.S. Government contractors and private sector stakeholders.

Speaker: Todd Hinson – Constellation Energy
Mr. Todd Hinson is a Cybersecurity Contracts Principal with Constellation Energy in Baltimore, Maryland.
Todd began his career in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corp as part of Electronic Warfare Operations in Europe before becoming a U.S. Government Contractor with Contel and GTE serving at the Pentagon-JCS, NSA-HQ, DIA-HQ, and in South Korea with the Korean Intelligence Support System (KISS). After having taken a sabbatical to raise five children (two sets of twins), Todd returned to U.S. federal service with the DOJ/U.S. Attorneys Office-Baltimore, followed by stints with “Top-10” international Banking and Finance law firms Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Allen & Overy in Washington, D.C. during the fall-out from the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis. Todd has also served the Office of General Counsel of the American Bankers Association, T. Rowe Price, Exelon Corporation, and currently Constellation Energy.
Todd’s Cybersecurity professional development began with NOC and Data Center operations, then diverted into Law and Banking from a systems resiliency perspective, and has returned to the assurance of Information Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) within Supply-Chain and Third-Party contracts, after having completed his M.S. in Engineering (Cybersecurity Policy & Compliance) from The George Washington University in 2021.
LinkedIn Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-hinson-05607534

Click Here to register for the December 14, 2022 ISSA Membership Meeting.

ISSA Central MD Holiday / Social Celebration
2022-12-08 16:30 - 20:00 | Stumpy’s Hatchet House, 6695 Dobbin Rd,, Columbia, MD, 21045
ISSA Central MD Holiday / Social Celebration
Sponsored by

Stumpy’s Hatchet House
6695 Dobbin Rd, Columbia, MD 21045
Thursday, December 8, 2022
4:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Agenda
4:30pm – 4:45pm – Exabeam and Corelight
4:45pm – 5:35pm – Hatchet Throwing
6:00pm – 8:00pm – Join us for Happy Hour at Pub Dog Pizza and Drafthouse, 8865 Stanford Blvd #101, Columbia, MD 21045. Pizza and Beer will be provided.
Corelight has partnered with Exabeam, the Smarter SIEMTM company, to combine Corelight’s proven network security monitoring (NSM) capabilities with Exabeam’s advanced user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and automated incident response capabilities. This integrated solution streams Corelight’s rich logs directly to Exabeam so security teams can obtain faster, more actionable network insights, and use the rich data as a building block for advanced security analyses via the Exabeam platform.
Click HERE to Register. See you there!

Thanksgiving
2022-11-24

Membership Meeting 11/16/2022
2022-11-16 17:00 - 19:30 | HubSpot—The Gathering Place on the Gateway, 6724 Alexander Bell Drive Hub Spot, Suite 105, Columbia, MD, 21046
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: Membership Meeting, November 16, 2022
Speaker Slides: 2022-11-16-Cyber-CSI-Ford
Meeting Recording: November 16, 2022 Membership Meeting and Speaker Recording

Topic: CSI:Cyber – What did they get wrong and right?
In 2015, CBS launched the 4th spin-off of the original CSI TV show called CSI:Cyber. The show focused on an FBI unit that worked to solve various cyber-crimes such as theft, hacking, extortion and even murder. The series lasted only two seasons and quickly became a running joke among the cyber security community due to outlandish, impossible, and unrealistic scenarios. However, the show got some things right which we will talk about and explore things that just didn’t quite hit the mark in an episode from season 2.

Speaker: Rebecca Ford
Rebecca Ford is a senior cyber threat intelligence analyst at a Fortune 50 Media & Entertainment company where she built and runs their cyber threat intelligence program. Rebecca has over 15 years of experience in cyber security and intel working for the US government as a North Korea cyber subject matter expert and is now in the private sector focusing on cyber threats targeting the media & entertainment business, retail and hospitality, cruise lines and theme parks.
When Rebecca isn’t studying cyber criminal activity, she and her husband like walking their French Bulldog FiFi, volunteering at veteran transition organizations, and working on puzzles.

WomenHack - Baltimore
2022-11-15 06:30 - 20:30 | Virtual
You’re invited to our WomenHack Virtual Event!
Our online invite-only recruiting events for developers, designers, and product managers are just a rewarding as our in-person events.
You’ll get to experience our signature rapid-interviews through our online video matching platform. Meet up to 20+ companies in just two hours from the comfort of your home as well as networking with other attendees at the event.
Whether you are actively looking for your next challenge, curious about other opportunities, or just interested in networking with other companies and individuals who support gender diversity – we’d love to see you there!
Learn more about your city’s hiring landscape and current opportunities from the comfort of your home as well as network fellow attendees at the event.
MEET INDUSTRY PLAYERS
WomenHack gives you face-to-face virtual meetings with local companies and industry players in your city. Our events are organized in a rapid rotations format (5 minutes each) to keep things fun and engaging.

Veterans Day
2022-11-11

MD STEM Festival Cybersecurity Talk
2022-11-10 16:30 - 18:00 | 7021 Columbia Gateway Dr, Columbia, MD 21046, 7021 Columbia Gateway Dr, Columbia, MD, 21046
Data Care, It’s your data it’s your responsibility
Please join us for this MD STEM Festival Cybersecurity talk presented by the AFCEA Central Maryland Chapter where Bruce Morgenstern will provide practical advice to protect your family’s data online. Light refreshments will be served.

Membership Meeting 10/26/2022
2022-10-26 17:00 - 19:30 | HubSpot—The Gathering Place on the Gateway, 6724 Alexander Bell Drive Hub Spot, Suite 105, Columbia, MD, 21046
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: October 26, 2022 ISSA Central MD Membership Meeting
ISSA International Welcome: ISSA Chapter Welcome 2022 Dr. Murray
Speaker Slides: S3_GSG_ACTIVE SHOOTER PREPAREDNESS_2022
Meeting Recording: October 26, 2022 Membership Meeting and Speaker Recording

Topic: Active Shooter/Assailant Preparedness for Business and Schools
The world seems to have gotten more intense and scarier since the pandemic started in early 2020. Although we have seemed to have come back to some sense of normalcy in 2022, there is also a cloud of uncertainty and fear that has even the best of us feeling vaguely unsettled. Unfortunately, this type of social environment can breed the worst type of criminal mind; a psychopathic one, that has rationalized people unlike them, or because of “them” have to die. This means that these cowardly and mentally disturbed individuals may attack areas of our society that National Security experts deem as “soft targets”, that being grocery stores, malls, retail businesses, and community organizations such as schools and parks. What can we do to defend against the unthinkable? What this conversation will propose are well-thought-out tactical and strategic methodologies borne from anti-terrorism, force protection, and the intelligence community; to help everyday business people and citizens prepare for an Active Shooter/Assailant when necessary.
Speaker: Bobby Sheppard, S3 Global Security Group LLC (S3 GSG)
Mr. Bobby L. Sheppard delivers over 26 years of combined experience in law enforcement, intelligence, and cybersecurity. For the last 17 years, Mr. Sheppard has worked within the intelligence community, serving as a Team Leader, Senior Intelligence Analyst, and Program Coordinator, providing Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence and Cyber Threat Intelligence analysis, and operations in support of highly classified missions abroad and at home. Prior to Mr. Sheppard’s serving within the Intelligence Community, he served as a federal law enforcement officer and Executive Protection agent for 9 years with the U.S. CAPITOL POLICE AND CIA respectively. Mr. Sheppard has received extensive training and experience in Anti-terrorism/Force Protection, surveillance, counter-surveillance, surveillance detection, Incident Management Response; CBRN detection and response; as well as COOP AND COG operations for federal government entities to include the Department of Homeland Security.
