Cybersecurity Speakers Series
Spring 2023
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Date/TimeLocationSpeakers
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Wednesday
February 8, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM1. Brian Albertson, State Farm, "IT Risk Trends and Impact to Cybersecurity"
2. Ian Kahn, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, "Privileged Access Management – An Introduction"
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Tuesday
February 21, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM1. Yosef Beck, Director of Security Architecture at IHG, "Vendor Requests for Proposals"
2. Chris Black, Warner Media, "SOAR: Automate All the SecOps Things"
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Wednesday
March 15, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM1. Sam Leonard, Veeam, "TBD"
2. Kyle Smith, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, "Cybersecurity as a Brand"
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Tuesday
March 28, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM1. Ward Pyles, Kids2, "TBD"
2. Sethuraman Srinivas, Adobe, "Enterprise Security Metrics - Relevance and Application"
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Wednesday
April 12, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM1. Dave Croasdell & Jim Elste, Cyberworkerz, "Cyber Clinics: Extending cybersecurity support to the community"
2. Patrick Sullivan, a-lign.com, "Importance of Professional Communication"
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Tuesday
April 18, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM1. Greg Aitken, Intaso Inc., "Resume -> Applications -> Interview ->Job"
2. Chris Silvers, Industry Professional, "TBD"
Cybersecurity speakers from prior sessions - Note links to presentations will require authentication with Kennesaw State University credentials:
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Fall 2022
Tue., August 23, 2022, Jacob Lovell, Solutions Engineer at Akamai, "Denial of Service: Taxonomy and Vocabulary" and Aldo Febro, Ph.D., CISO at Continuant, "DDoS against VoIP Services: Threat & Career Opportunities"
Wed., September 7, 2022, Yosef Beck, Director of Security Architecture at IHG, "Network Security for Smarties"
Tue., September 20, 2022, Jon Anderson, "Overview of Changes in PCI DSS 4.0" and Brent Holt, Edge Solutions
Wed., October 5, 2022, Kaustubh Kubde, Equifax, "How to break into Cybersecurity & Essential Tips for a Strong Foundation" and Sam Leonard, Veeam, "Disaster Recovery After Cyberattack"
Tue., October 18, 2022, Charles Herring, Witfoo, "Federating Cybersecurity Operations", and Phillip Mahan, Chief Risk Officer for Code Named Projects, LLC., "It's a Matter of Trust" ¤
Wed., November 2, 2022, Ryan Basden, risk3sixty, "Technical Security Career Paths" ¤
Tue., November 15, 2022, Asher Andree, Mandiant, "Pathway to Being a Pentester" and Jake Bulim, "SOC Structures and How to Lead Analysts to Make an Effective Team"
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Spring 2022
Wednesday, January 19, 2022, Jacob Lovell, Solutions Engineer at Akamai, "Containing the Breach: The Evolution of Microsegmentation"
Wednesday, February 2, 2022, Ben McInnis, Technical Marketing Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, "State of Cloud-native Security in 2022 and Nick Corn, Penetration Tester at CodeMettle, "Effective Communication to Executives for Cyber Security Professionals"
Wednesday, February 16, 20221, Ward Pyles at Kids2 and Christian Hyatt, CEO and Founder at risk3sixty, "The 5 CISO Archetypes"
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, Bernard Barnes, Client Executive at Kyndryl, Inc. -- State of Georgia SLED, "How to Sell Cybersecurity Services" and J. David Quilter, Coach and Author for Security Leaders, "How to Build a Smart Security Program"
Wednesday, March 16, 2022, Yosef Beck, Director of Security Architecture at IHG, "Cybersecurity as a Competitive Advantage" and Mike Rothman at Securosis, "Evolution of the SOC"
Wednesday, March 30, 2022, Zola Maswanganye, Information Security Engineer, "Who is responsible for Security" and Jade West, Cybersecurity Engineer at The Home Depot, "Essential API Security"
Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Keyaan Williams, Managing Director at Class-LLC, "Mastering Cybersecurity Metrics" and Anne-Marie Colombo at SAP America, "Zero Trust Without the Hype"
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Fall 2021
Wednesday, September 1, 2021, Brian Albertson, State Farm Insurance, "Enterprise Data Enablement Risks, Controls and Vulnerabilities"
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 19:00 - 21:00, Virtual Session
Yosef Beck, IHG, "Designing an effective Security Metrics and Reporting Program"
Christian Hyatt, risk3sixty, "Results and trends from 1000 security assessments"Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 19:00 - 21:00, Hybrid - In person and Zoom
Jacob Lovell, Akamai, “MFA is broken: How recent developments in FIDO2 fixes it”
Dan Smith, Industry Expert, "Recovering from Ransomware and Other Disasters"Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 19:00 - 21:00, Hybrid - In person and Zoom
Maryann Douglass & Sherri Collis, Online Business Systems, "Personal Security Awareness for Online Presence"
Ward Pyles, Kids2Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 19:00 - 21:00, Hybrid - In person and Zoom
Brandy Griffin, Avalon Cyber, "The Incident Response Lifecycle"
Betty DuBois, Independent Security Consultant, "Network Reconnaissance with Open Source Tools"Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 19:00 - 21:00 via Zoom
Jack Healey, BHA Group, "Impact of Bias on Risk Appetite and Tolerance"
Phillip Mahan, Industry Professional -
Summer 2021
Gordon Shenkle, Security Services Master Plan, June 2
Taiye Lambo, Governance Design, June 7
Yosef Beck, Policy Design, June 9
Jeff Jones, Security Operations Design, June 14
Debra Oglesby, Staffing Planning, June 16
Anne Marie Colombo, Risk Management Framework, June 21
Robert Roberts, Contingency Planning, June 23
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Spring 2021
Anne Marie Columbo, SAP America, Inc., Risk Management Framework Overview
Jack Healy, CPA, CFF, CFE, CRISC, Chief Executive Officer, Bear Hill Advisory Group, LLCCPA, Risk Management: Deep Thoughts and Better Results
Yosef Beck, Principal Security Architect, IHG, Network Security Monitoring: Process & Tools Overview
Alain Espinosa, Director of Security Operations, MSS at Online Business Systems, Preparing for your career in cybersecurity (from student to professional)
Michael Lockhart, Director of Compliance, Salesforce Mulesoft
Brian Albertson, AWSCCP, CDPSE, CRISC, ITIL, POPM, IT Control Management Product Owner, State Farm® IT Risk & Compliance, TBuilding Compliance Into Business Operations
Adam Kehler - Director, RSP Healthcare Services at Online Business Systems, Cybersecurity in Healthcare
Ward Pyles, KidsII Inc., Driving security teams to be more effective
Jacob Lovell, Akamai Technologies, Web Application Security at the Edge
Nat Prakongpan, Technical Director, X-Force Threat Intelligence and Cyber Range Lab, IBM Security, Ox Response, Incident Response Preparedness for Business
Chris Silvers, C G Silvers Consulting, Freelance Cybersecurity Trends and Techniques
Matthew Dobbs, Chief Integration Architect, X-Force Threat Intelligence and Integration Lab, IBM Security, Leveraging Zero Trust Architecture
Yosef Beck, Principal Security Architect, IHG
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Fall 2020
Jacob Lovell, Solutions Engineer, Akamai, “Securing the Enterprise: Application Access and its Challenges”
Sarah Beck, State Farm, “Behavior Analytics for Security”
Vinton Cerf, The Early Internet
Mike Rothman, “The future of security operations in a DevOps world”
Chris Silvers, “Freelance cybersecurity trends and techniques”
Anne Marie Colombo, SAP America, “Securing the Cloud”
Nick Travis Palo Alto Networks, “Defending Against Data Exfiltration via DNS”
Tim Callahan, AFLAC
Maryann Douglas, Online Business Systems, “You CAN Get There from Here – Women in Cybersecurity”
Jack Healey, “Cyber Incident Communication Strategies”
James Blanton, Security Professional
Nick Corn, Ionic Security, “Application-level Denial of Service”
Joe DiBiase, Interface, “Things we learned and adjusted to deal with Covid-19”
Kevin & Garrett Beaver, “Security from a Teenager’s Perspective…And what businesses need to be on the lookout for among their rising workforce”
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Spring 2020
David Allen, CISO, Georgia Technology Authority, Managing Cyber Risk for the Enterprise
David Anderson, Security Consultant, Akamai Technologies, Planning and Executing Continuity Plans
John Traino, CIO, Aaron, What it Takes to Innovate
Bob Varnadoe, CISO, NCR, Techniques for Detecting a Cyber Attack
Jacob Lovell, Solutions Engineer, Akamai Technologies, Third Party Scripts: Magecart & Other Threats
Adi Wong, Akamai Technologies, Cloud Security/Akamai 101
Phillip Mahan, Communicating Risk Appetite and Tolerance
Sasi Pulipaka, Risk Manager, Verizon, Data Privacy and Corporate Responsibility
Jeff Jones, Threat Hunter, Threat Intelligence Brief
Jacob Lovell, Technical Presales, Akamai Technologies, Incident Response
Mitch Moosbrugger, Regional Directory, CyberArk Software, The Challenges of Remote Vendor Access
Mike Rothman, President, Securosis, Advancing Cloud Security: The Next Phase
Tim Callahan, Global Chief Security Officer, Aflac, The Value of Threat Intelligence
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Fall 2019
Tim O'Neill, Network Forensics
Joseph DiBiase, Director of Information Security, Interface, The horse has left the barn and we have the saddle!: Our journey into the cloud
Tim Cullen, Adapture, Incident Response
Jeff Jones, Threat Hunter, Low Knowledge Authentication
Moazzam Khan, Security Researcher, IBM, Watson Security Research, Next Generation SIEM: Qradar and its Applications
Jacob Lovell, Security Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies, Fighting Armies of Zombie Robots with a Giant Robot
Rashed Chowdhury, Principle Enterprise Applications, Infosys, Salesforce as a Platform for Innovation
Debra Oglesby, , FIS Worldpay, Project Management
Tate Ferguson, Service Transition Manager, FIS Worldpay, Technical Writing
Corey Bingham, Nathan Raymer, A Primer on Georgia Payment Processing Tech Companies
Brian Albertson , IT Control Product Owner, State Farm, Automating IT Compliance
Jack Healey, Founder/CEO, Bear Hill Advisory Group, Baking Risk into Your Information System Soufflé
Daniel Williams, Matt Crane, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
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Spring 2019
Phillip Mahan, Security & Compliance Manager, Calendly, I am the LAW: Statutory Compliance in Corporate Cyber Security
Tim O'Neal, Managing Criminal CYBER Investigations
Walter Tong, GTA, Cyber Intelligence Briefing
Jeff Jones, Industry Professional Technical Threat Brief
Mitch Moosberger, Cyberark
Alex Edwards, Engineer, Cisco
Joe Catron, Lead Automation Engineer, CelticQA Solutions
Clarence Daniels, Lead QA Engineer, CelticQA Solutions
Frank Rietta, Applying Agile and Security in Software Development
Philip Andreae, Payment Card Security
Dennis Kosmetatos, NCR, Business Value of Identity and Access Management
Tim O’Neill, Attacking the Internet of Things
Jack Healey, Bear Hill Advisory Group, Security and the Role of Risk Assessment
Alex Edwards, Cisco
Danny Wasserman, Akamai Technologies
Katie Greenfield, Senior Technical Recruiter, Brooksource
Dan Schroeder, Aprio, Information Assurance for Security and Compliance
Bill Morrison, McKesson, SecOps Management & Planning
Carlos Batista, BetterCloud, Software Security
Louis Kandel, Interviewing for Success, Retired IBM Executive
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Fall 2018
Walter Tong, GA Technology Authority, Incident Management
Ward Pyles, IHG, Career Tracks in ISA Management
Sherron Burgess, BCD Travel, Launching an ISA Career
Brian Albertson, State Farm, REAL IT Controls
Tim O’Neal, Industry Professional, Why the Physical Layer Still MattersDebby Briggs, NetScout, What is your Security’s Weakest Link? The Human Firewall!
Tim O’Neal, Being an Expert Witness
Mike Rothman, Securiosis, DevSecOpsMitch Moosbrugger, CyberArk, Emerging Threats to Privileged Account Security and Privileged Access Management
Jeff Jones, Security Professional, The State of Insecurity in the World Today
Katie Greenfield, Brooksource
Alex Kirk, Tenable
Chris Farris, Turner Inc., Pen-testing AWS
Jack Healey, Bear Hill Advisory Group, Management Role in a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan
Phillip Mahan, Ionic Security
Louis Kandel
Philip Andreae, FIDO: The case for better authentication
Mark German, KPMG
Philip Mahan, Ionic Security, Security Privacy and Governance for Business Majors
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Spring 2018
Phillip Mahan, Ionic Security, Creating Effective Policy
Damien Suggs, Saltworks, Application Security
Dan Streuber, Cisco, Encrypted Traffic Analytics
James Blanton, Winter Olympics Cyber Threats
Jeff Jones, Threat Intelligence
Tim O’Neill, Security Professional
Preeti Ravinda, IBM Security, Watson for Cybersecurity.
Jeff Jones, Security Professional, Developing Threat Intelligence
Tim Cullen, Adapture, Introduction to Block Chain Technology
Anne Marie Colombo, SAP America, Enterprise Resource Planning
Katie Greenfield, Brooksource, Managing the Recruiting Process
Shekesa McLaurin, Macy’s, Information Systems and Entrepreneurship
Brian Albertson, State Farm, Staying Current in the Field
Ben Mcinnis, Cisco, Compliance Role in Incident Response
Scott Baker, The Coca-Cola Company, Data Loss Prevention
Ward Pyles, IHG, Preparing for your ISA Career
Andrew Hamilton, Cybiant, Do what works, not what’s flashy
Walter Tong, Georgia Technology Authority
Anne Marie Colombo, SAP America, SAP & Threat Intelligence
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Fall 2017
Tim Cullen, Adapture, Dealing with Ransomware
Phillip Mahan, Ionic Security, Why GPDR Matters to You
Dan Streuber, Cisco, Analyzing Encrypted Network Traffic
Brad Stafford, Checkpoint, Securing the Cloud
Jeff Jones, Threat intelligence for the new security professional
JoEtta LeSueur, MSIS, CISSP, Product Security Manager, Ionic Security
Ward Pyles; CISSP, CRISC, NSA; BS IS, Masters of Law; Director Global Security and Assurance InterContinental Hotels Group
Kyle Waddle, Comcast, Managing Cyber Crisis Events Within Matrix Organizations
Walter Tong, Georgia Technology Authority, Managing Cyber Incidents
Nat Prakongan, IBM, The IBM Security Cyber Range
Ward Pyles, Intercontinental Hotels Group, ISA Careers and Advancement
Kevin Beaver, Principle Logic, Planning a Consulting Career in ISA
Robert Roberts, The Coca-Cola Company
Rafal Los, Seventy7 Consulting
Follow this link for an index of the speaker library.