Thursday, September 10 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET In partnership with the the West Michigan Cloud Security Alliance, Bridges in Tech, Gigamon, Forescout Technologies and SailPoint, Optiv is excited to present our first Women in Security Summit. This Summit will feature panelists from all over the industry who will discuss their current technical roles and the…

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….

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…

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…

“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….

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

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…

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…