August 19th-20th, 2020 Day 1 – August 19, 2020 9:00am-9:50am: Keynote – Tales From the Cyber War Trenches – Jim Kuiphof, Spectrum Health10:00am-10:45am: ForeScout10:50am-11:35am: Security and Compliance Issues with Cloud Providers – Shawn Valle Rapid711:40am-12:25pm: The Path To Identity Maturity – Jerod Brennen12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch/Open Discussion/Community Forum Day 2 – August 20, 2020 9:00am-9:50am: Keynote – Security…
COVID-19 – CloudCon Update
Due to the ongoing concerns and quarantine with the COVID-19 crisis, the West Michigan CSA has decided to postpone CloudCon until August 19th and 20th. We hope things will be somewhat back to “normal” by then. In the meantime we plan to bring you lots of great information via webinars, YouTube videos and other methods….
Kids Food Basket Challenge
The West Michigan CSA along with our friends at Varonis have started the Kids’ Food Basket challenge. We are looking for 20 vendors or companies willing to donate $500.00 each before next Thursday’s virtual CSA event. We are also looking for individual contributors if you are able to give anything at this time, please consider…
How Hackers Hack Event
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Who knew that in 500B.C….
Defeasible Reasoning Security Podcast
Recently one of our board members was able to participate in the Defeasible Reasoning podcast. The podcast is about all things security and is put on by Grand Rapids Community College. Drew Rozema in the host of the podcast and is also the head of the Information Security program at the college. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/11-aaron-bregg/id1440528245?i=1000452194641
CSA at Interface GR
I am happy to announce the two of our board members will be presenting at the Interface GR IT conference. Aaron Bregg and Lloyd Guyot will be talking about ‘What I was I knew BEFORE I moved to the cloud’. Detailed topics are: Securing Cloud Email – What to expect 4th Party Risk – How…
Risk Webinar Follow Up
A big thank you to Rob for his excellent presentation today all about risk and vulnerability as we move into today’s ever growing technology and security landscape. Those of you who missed the event, you definitely missed a great conversation. However, I do have a recording of it if you still wish to listen. Be…
Risk and Vulnerability Webinar
The West Michigan Cloud Security Alliance is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, April 23rd at 2pm discussing Risk and Vulnerability Management. The event will be hosted by Matt Nelson and presented by Rob Walk of Tenable. You can sign up at Eventbrite for your space! This is a major topic for most organizations so it…
Cloud Security Summit
Optiv (www.optiv.com) has teamed up with the CSA West Michigan to offer an all day Cloud Security Summit. We’ve taken all the feedback from our surveys and put it all together in a great event! You can sign up for the CSA portion of the event here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cloud-security-technical-strategy-tickets-60417870477 The schedule for the entire day: 9:30-11:30…
ForeScout Event Follow-Up
Today we had an excellent event with ForeScout. I think everyone that attended was able to understand visibility and security in an IOT world a little bit better! A huge thank you to ForeScout for working with our CSA chapter on putting this one together and for Ellen who gave a fantastic presentation. Also a…