September 28th 2017 - Columbus Ohio

Thursday 9/28, The Cybersecurity User Group met at Smith & Wollensky in Easton.  We had one of our best meetings to date.  There were close to 40 security professionals in attendance, with interaction and discussion throughout.  I'm very thankful to everyone who helped make today's meeting a success, especially our speakers: Jerod Brennen (Keynote), Bill Evans (Sponsor), and Adrianne Ward (Roundtable Moderator), but also our attendees who contributed your time and ideas to the security discussions.

Smith & Wollensky's at Easton

Group Pictures:

Opening Welcome Statement, Gib Patt, Group Founder/Coordinator:

Keynote Speaker:  Jerod Brennen, Security Architect, GBQ Partners

• Presentation Title:  "A Common Sense Approach to Information Security"
• Topic Abstract and Speaker Bio:  HERE
• Powerpoint Slides:  HERE
• Full Audio of Jerod's Talk:  Coming Soon.
• Pictures  and Short Video Clip of Jerod Presenting:

5-Minute Sponsor Segment: One Identity LLC:  Bill Evans, Sr. Director, Marketing

• Bill's Bio:  HERE
• Presentation Title "Get IAM Right"
• PowerPoint Slides:  HERE
• Video of Bill's talk:  

Roundtable Group Discussion, Adrianne Ward, Director, Security Solution Architecture, Americas

Adrianne Ward moderated the roundtable group discussion

Despite having fractured her hand earlier this week, Adrianne still showed up to moderate our roundtable discussion with the group.  Lesson learned:  use care when removing large plates from deadlift machine at gym!

• Roundtable Theme:  "A Selection of Current Statistics in IT Security"
• Speaker Bio:  HERE
• Powerpoint Slide:  HERE
• Pictures Adrianne Moderating:

Next Cybersecurity User Group Meeting:  Dayton, November 9th.

Our next meeting will be in Dayton on Thursday November 9th.  I'll send a newsletter update with registration and details once the venue is confirmed.  Our speaker for the Dayton meetup is Dr. Loren Wagner, who's Ph.D. research and dissertation focuses on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.  An abstract for Dr. Wagner's talk along with a short biography have been posted HERE.    The Cybersecurity User Group cannot express well enough how pleased we are that Dr. Wagner has agreed to speak for us, and to facilitate a discussion.  This will be a rare learning experience, so please block your calendars now if you are able to attend.

Our group is not meeting in October because there are just too many other security events happening across our region.  For a list of October events please see the previous blog post HERE.  Or you can just scroll down.

Thanks all.

Gib Patt

gib.patt@oneidentity.com

614 209 8516