ISSA-BE: Yearly Members Meeting - Board Elections - Special Event - Infosecurity 2010
Written by Webmaster Rob
Mar 15, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Dear ISSA-BE Member, Dear Security Professional,
ISSA-BE would like to inform you about the following events:
The Board of the ISSA Brussels-European Chapter is very pleased to once more have an extraordinary speaker for its annual General Assembly! In 2008 we welcomed the distinguished Howard Schmidt, then ISSA International President and currently Cyberczar of President of the USA Barack Obama. In 2009 we welcomed Mr Bruce Schneier, information security guru since decades. And for this year's edition we have the honor of welcoming Chris Hoff, Director, Cloud & Virtualization Solutions at Cisco Systems and Technical Advisor & Founding Member of the Cloud Security Alliance.
In IT and Information Security, the 140-dB-"buzz" words are Cloud Computing and Cloud Security. Chris Hoff is a globally recognized expert and leading thinker on Cloud Security and I can't think of anyone better suited to explain us how to tackle Cloud Security than him! This is your chance to get top-notch information and guidance and to ask questions not many other people can answer!
Please register yourself and attend this incredibly interesting event!
The event will be preceeded by the annual elections for a new Board for the ISSA Brussels-European Chapter. The details concerning the elections will be detailed in a separate e-mail, but you can already find the agenda below.
I hope to see you all attend the elections and event with Chris Hoff!
Kind Regards Tomas Vanhoof ISSA Brussels-European Chapter Vice-President + Education & General Events Officer
Title: The Frogs Who Desired A King: A Virtualization and Cloud Computing Security Fable Set To Interpretive Dance
Description: Aesop wrote a little ditty about some discontented frogs who lived in a pond. They asked Zeus for a new King. They got one. It ate them. The moral of this story is "be careful what you wish for as you might just get it."
The corresponding analog is that of virtualization and cloud security. It's coming, but it's not going to look much like what security looks like today and it's certainly not what people are expecting. On the one hand, it may consume us all because we're unprepared for what we're asking for whilst on the other hand it's a platform change we'll adapt to without much fuss.
We'll discuss the realities of both virtualization and Cloud Computing security and how to deal with the things that don't change and also the things that do profoundly.
Bio :
Chris is Director of Cloud & Virtualization Solutions at Cisco Systems where he focuses on virtualization and cloud computing security spending most of his time interacting with global enterprises and service providers, governments, and the defense and intelligence communities. Previously, he was Unisys Corporation's Chief Security Architect, served as Crossbeam Systems' chief security strategist, was the CISO and director of enterprise security at WesCorp, a $25 billion financial services company and was founder/CTO of a national security consultancy. Chris specializes in emerging and disruptive innovation and what it means to security, and is technical advisor to the Cloud Security Alliance. Chris blogs at http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog
Some other interesting info about him :
- Winner of the 2010 RSA Security Bloggers Awards in the category of “Most Entertaining blog” (entertaining AND content-rich AND thought-provoking - just check it out yourself at http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?tag=cloud-security ) - he is probably the only Director of a multinational organization that has more and bigger tattoos than the above-average rockstar (except maybe organized crime, now that I think of it) - he is one of the people that are defining our industry
Date : Tuesday March 23rd, 2010
Starting time : 1800hrs for ISSA-BE Members - 1900hrs for non-Members
Place :
Cisco (who kindly provide the venue + food and beverages) Pegasus Park De Kleetlaan, 6A B-1831 Diegem Belgium
1800hrs - Welcome for the ISSA-BE Members with sandwiches and beverages in catering room
1830hrs - Start of the ISSA-BE General Assembly & Elections in the conference room.
1900hrs - Welcome for the ISSA-BE Contacts with sandwiches and beverages in catering room
1930hrs - Start of the event with Chris Hoff - part 1 in the conference room
2030hrs - networking break in catering room
2045hrs - part 2 of the event with Chris Hoff (incl.interactivity / Q & A),
2130hrs - Networking drink at catering room (drinks for 60 people)
Registration Procedure :
Registration for the event is free but mandatory. In case there would be more registrations than available seats, ISSA members in good standing will be favoured over other people in a ratio of 70% Members to 30% non-members. Early registrants will have precedence over late registrants. Members as well as non-members register by e-mailing their contact details (name, surname, company/organisation, ISSA Membership Nr) to mentioning "(ISSA-BE Elections+) Event with Chris Hoff" in the subject line respectively.
Registration starts as of March 15th. 2010 and ends on Tuesday March 23rd, 2010 at 1200hrs CET. People that have been put on the waiting list receive their eventual acceptance / refusal on Tuesday March 23rd, 2010 around 1400hrs CET.
If your registration was confirmed, but you can't make it eventually, please inform us via in order to give someone from the waiting list the opportunity to attend.
We would like to inform you about our board election results, upcoming events and member benefits.
At our last annual General Members Meeting, we elected a new board. Our new board composition is as follows:
President: Bart Moerman
Treasurer: Xavier Serret Secretary: Thomas Herlea Membership: Tom Van den Eynde
Vice President: Rob Kloots Vice President: Toon Mordijck
Communications: Tom Van den Eynde Education & General Events: Clément Herssens
Website: Rob Kloots External & Public Relations: Bart Moerman
Sponsorship: Johan Meire
Hello all,
There is now a "Brussels European" community where we can: - announce our next events - post documents (presentations, forms, ...) - create and manage discussions - ...
On behalf of the board of ISSA-BE I wish you all a happy new year. In expectations for your security career I will not wish you anything specific. So much as the one security professional hopes his network will remain hacker free, so much another one wishes to have a successful hack to obtain a better budget.
2009 has been the year of the financial crisis. As a security association we also felt that. Thanks to you all we could maintain our membership pretty well in these times. The effect we see is on the time board members have spare to spent on the association. Indeed, the professional involvement was at the detriment of the time available for hobbies like ISSA-BE.
We are now early 2010 and your organisation is continuing with the organisation of new events which will address a variety of professional interests. And to be able to further expand we would like to get more board members, professionals who are willing to spare some time for their colleagues and their professional career. Yes, not only do you have the opportunity to organise interesting events; you also are able to do develop your personal competences. For those who have a CISSP certification, the board activities count for your CPEs!
ISSA-BE has its annual elections in March. Don’t wait till then to become a candidate for the board. Already start now: contact us and join a board meeting to get the feeling of it. Get in touch with one of the board members.
Howard Schmidt is the current president of ISSA.org.
Today the White House announced the President’s new White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Howard Schmidt.
Howard Schmidt, is the information security expert who President Obama tapped Tuesday as his cybersecurity coordinator and who served as a senior cybersecurity adviser in the Bush administration. He is characterized as a no-nonsense leader who will take no guff from senior White House advisers in advancing the administration's cybersecurity initiatives.
SecAppDev 2010 is an intensive one-week course in secure application development. secappdev.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving security skills and awareness in the developer community. The course is a joint initiative with K.U. Leuven and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.
SecAppDev 2010 is the 6th edition of our widely acclaimed course, attended by an international audience from a broad range of industries including financial services, telecom, consumer electronics and media and taught by leading software security experts including
- Dr. Gary McGraw, the Cigital CTO and prolific author. - Prof. dr. ir. Bart Preneel who heads COSIC, the renowned crypto lab. - Ken van Wyk, co-founder of the CERT® Coordination Center and widely acclaimed author and lecturer. - Dr. Richard Clayton of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory's security group, well known for his research on security economics. Replacement speaker under way.
The course takes place from February 22nd to 26th2010 in the Groot Begijnhof, Leuven, Belgium, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
For more information visit the web site: http://secappdev.org.
Places are limited, so do not delay registering to avoid disappointment. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. A 10% discount is available to paid-up ISSA members.
Flexible Education Solutions for IT Management professionals: Four executive seminars starting Mid-January 2010 at Solvay Brussels School-EM:
Basic principles for the development of Applications and e-Business systems. This module addresses security issues, implementation methodologies, and presentation of usual technical platforms.
ISSA-BE would like to inform you about the following training opportunities for which our members can receive discounts:
BCM Academy
Courses Summer / Fall 2009
Certified Business Continuity Manager : 12 modules spread over 4 months Start: September 17 2009 Price: € 5.988 excl. vat (excl. hotel and dinner)
Business Continuity Management Foundation: 5 consecutive days incl. lunch Dates : October 5-9 Price: € 2.495 excl. vat (excl. hotel and dinner)
Crisis Management & Communication: 2 consecutive days incl. lunch Dates : October 1-2, December 7-8 Price: € 1.395 excl. vat (excl. hotel and dinner)
Business Continuity Management Essentials: 2 consecutive days incl. lunch Dates: September 28-29, December14-15 Price: € 1.395 excl. vat (excl. hotel and dinner)
Workshops Summer School 2009 1 day incl. lunch Crisis management : July 8 or August 19 Business Impact Analysis : July 9 or August 20 BS25999 : Juli 10 juli or August 20 Price: € 395 excl. vat per workshop
ISSA members receive a 10% discount on all offerings.
BCM Academy is het toonaangevende Europese Kennis Management Instituut voor Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Crisis Management. Het instituut beschikt over een uniek en breed aanbod van opleidingen, bewustwording, trainingen, diensten en oefeningen met betrekking to Business Continuïteit, Disaster Recovery en Crisis Management. Ons doel is aantoonbaar en blijvend gericht op de duurzaamheid, continuïteit en stabiliteit van uw bedrijf of uw organisatie.
BCM Academy verzorgt eveneens de certificering van het individu en accreditering van uw organisatie.
Cursusaanbod zomer en najaar 2009
Certified Business Continuity Manager : 12 modules verspreid over 4 maanden. Startdatum : 17 september 2009 Prijs : € 5.988 excl. btw (excl. hotel en diner)
Business Continuity Management Foundation 5 opeenvolgende dagen incl. lunch Data : 5 t/m 9 oktober Prijs : € 2.495 excl. btw (excl. hotel & diner)
Data : 1-2 oktober, 7-8 december
Prijs : 1.395 excl. btw (excl. hotel & diner)
Business Continuity Management Essentials 2 opeenvolgende dagen incl. lunch Datum : 28-29 september, 14-15 december
Prijs : € 1.395 excl. Btw (excl. hotel en diner)
Disaster Recovery Essentials
3 opeenvolgende dagen incl. lunch
Datum : 29 juni t/m 1 juli
Prijs : € 1.695 excl. Btw (excl. hotel en diner)
Workshops Summer School 2009 1 dag incl. lunch
· Crisismanagement : 8 juli of 19 augustus · Business Impact Analyse : 9 juli of 20 augustus · BS25999 : 10 juli of 20 augustus
Prijs : 395 excl. btw per workshop
Alle opleidingen worden volledig ingericht op kleinere groepen van overeenkomstig kennis- en ervaringsniveau.
Contact & inschrijvingen Voor verdere informatie of gericht advies nodigen wij u graag uit contact op te nemen met
ISSA Leden hebben bij inschrijving recht op 10% korting.
Just as we hit the Infosecurity.be fair, and as a small reminder for all of you, check out a brief overview of current additional benefits you get when becoming a member of ISSA-BE.
Lancelot Insitute offers a 10% discount for ISSA members when registering for CISM and CISSP trainings.
The Lancelot Institute will be present at Infosecurity.be 2009 today and tomorrow at booth 08.A051. The Institute states that high quality trainings and resources should be available to all professionals and orgnaisations willing to develop themselvers. Their complete business model is built on that principle. Their trainers have experience in the most advanced security environments all over the world. Not just the 'what', yet also the "why and the how" are presented. Security measures are taken not just because they are possible, but because they add value. They do not avoid tough discussions with attendees, but, ont the contrary, stimulate them. Attendees are received in inspiring training locations, equipped with all modern facilities. All of this is said to be delivered agains investments that are considerably lower than elsewhere.
So, 10 % discount for ISSA members for these two training scheduled in Brussels..
Interested? Request information or enroll by using this
link:
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