Date: May 3, 2006
Time: 8:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Click
here for Mapquest directions
Cobb Galleria Centre
2 Galleria Pkwy SE
Atlanta, GA 30339-5938
Second
Quarter, 2006 InfraGard Atlanta meeting
Our meeting was set for May 3rd, 8am -11:30am at
the SecureWorld Expowww.secureworldexpo.com,
We also added a CyberSafety Initiative for Georgia
Schools/Internet Safety for Children panel discussion at 10:30am following
Ira Winklers presentation and a 60 minute break to allow attendees
to visit the exhibit floor from 9:30am-10:30am.
Both presentations were well attended and very
interesting.
Regards,
Joseph Murphy
President, InfraGard Atlanta
Date: November 2, 2005
Time: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:
Cox Communications Corporate Headquarters (click to get
directions)
6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd, Atlanta, Ga 30328 (3/4 mile north of I-285
on Peachtree Dunwoody Rd).
Joe was pleased to remind you that our InfraGard meeting was held
on Wednesday, November 2nd, from 8am-12noon at Cox Enterprises Corporate
Headquarters which is located at 6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd, Atlanta,
Ga 30328 (3/4 mile north of I-285 on Peachtree Dunwoody Rd).
This is a remarkable facility which has hosted InfraGard in
the past, Cox Enterprises was our breakfast sponsor, thank you to
Bob Brand, Director, Corporate Security, and his staff for supporting
us with both venue space and breakfast.
Of importance was the need for you to RSVP to rsvp@infragardatlanta.org
in order to attend that meeting. Security protocols at Cox make it
challenging to access the facility without advanced planning.
Wireless Local Area Network Security
We were pleased to announce Kevin
Beaver, President of Principle
Logic, LLC, as our 10am speaker on wireless security. Kevin's
title for his presentation was "Wireless Security Oversights,
Misconceptions, and other Dangerous Blunders."
Kevin Beaver – founder of Atlanta-based Principle
Logic, LLC – is an independent information security consultant,
author, and speaker. He has over 18 years of experience in IT and
specializes in performing information security assessments. Before
starting his own information security services business five years
ago, Kevin served in various information technology and security roles
for several healthcare, e-commerce, financial, and educational institutions.
Kevin has written five books including “Hacking
Wireless Networks For Dummies” and the highly-successful
“Hacking
For Dummies” (both by Wiley) as well as “The
Definitive Guide to Email Management and Security” (Realtimepublishers.com)
and “The
Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance”
(Auerbach). He is a regular columnist and information security advisor
for various websites including SearchNetworking.com, SearchWindowsSecurity.com,
SearchSQLServer.com, and SearchStorage.com. Kevin also serves as a
contributing editor for HCPro’s Briefings on HIPAA newsletter
and is a Security Clinic Expert for ITsecurity.com. In addition, his
information security work has been published in Information Security
Magazine, SecurityFocus.com, and Computerworld.com. He frequently
speaks on information security at various security and audit conferences
for RSA, CSI, TechTarget, IIA, and SecureWorld Expo.
Kevin earned his bachelor’s degree
in Computer Engineering Technology from Southern Polytechnic State
University and his master’s degree in Management of Technology
from Georgia Tech. He also holds CISSP, MCSE, Master CNE, and IT Project+
certifications. Kevin can be reached at kbeaver@principlelogic.com.
Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recover Planning
- Lessons Learned from Katrina
We were also pleased to announce Lori Bush of Cisco
confirmed as our Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery Planning
speaker.
Lori Bush is a member of Cisco's Critical Infrastructure
Assurance Group, a group tasked with ensuring communications and technology
support for several hundred Red Cross Shelters following Hurricane
Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast. Additionally, Cisco had two
of it's own facilities in New Orleans and Mississippi directly impacted
by Hurricane Katrina and has lessons learned to share about their
own business recovery efforts for these facilities.
National Infragard Update on Katrina
Bryant Tow, Vice President and Director of InfraGard's National Members
Alliance addressed our membership. Several InfraGard Chapters were
affected by Hurricane Katrina as well as member companies and many
of our Chapter leaders channeled significant aid and resources to
assist those in need following this tragic event.
Regards,
Joseph Murphy
President, InfraGard Atlanta
October, 13 2005
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Date: August 31, 2005 from
Time: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm,
Location:
The Home Depot, Inc. (click to get directions)
The Home Depot Corporate Office
2455 Paces Ferry Road (Just outside I-285)
Meeting location is the Main Auditorium
SPECIAL
NOTE
The Home Depot asked InfraGard members NOT TO PARK in the visitor
parking area.
Please park in the EMPLOYEE PARKING DECK primarily due to the unusual
increase in volume of vehicles.
We
were pleased to announce that The Home Depot agreed to provide our
chapter access to their facility for our next quarterly meeting. Additionally,
we thanked New
Horizons of Atlanta and
Allegent Technology Group, who agreed to sponsor the networking
breakfast from 8:00 am - 9:00 am.
The
meeting seemed one of the more interesting and timely set of topics
InfraGard Atlanta had ever presented to its membership. In today’s
world we hear about terrorist events overseas, we learn about outbreaks
of one disease or another somewhere in the world and we go on about
our lives worrying more about the price of fuel or the current cyber-virus
than these emerging threats to our very existence.
InfraGard
Atlanta invited members to stop for a few hours to consider the very
real threat of BioTerror and the emerging threat of an Avian Influenza
Pandemic. Both issues are real threats that must be considered and
addressed in your business continuity plans and your personal survival
plans. We arranged for noted experts in these fields to present these
topics and answer your questions, I hope you took advantage of this
unique opportunity.
SPEAKER
1: Jon Watson, FBI, Special Agent, Joint Terrorism Task Force
(JTTF)
Mr. Watson addressed
the threat of BioTerrorism, the anticipated response of the JTTF to
an act of BioTerror, what the private sector should do to prepare
for this type of threat and what impact this type of threat may have
on the critical infrastructure and your community.
SPEAKER
2: Dan Rutz, CDC/National Center for Infectious Diseases,
Special Assistant for Communications
(Click here for the speaker's bio)
Mr.
Rutz addressed the emerging threat of an Avian Influenza Pandemic,
the historic damage caused by pandemic outbreaks of virulent disease,
the impact such an outbreak would have in this country and to the
continuity of your business whether part of the nation’s critical
infrastructure or not.
Joseph Murphy, President
InfraGard Atlanta
Avian Flu Background information
Although the emerging Avian Influenza Virus known as A/H5N1 could
propagate quickly and as wide spread as any cyber-virus you can think
of, to date, only 112 people have been infected. What is most alarming
though is that the mortality rate of those infected has been 55%,
higher than any human flu epidemic on record including the 1957-1958
Asian Flu and 1968-1969 Hong Kong Flu epidemics which killed a million
people or the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 which killed 50 million people
worldwide.
Some of the infected water fowl and chickens, predominantly
found in northeast Asia where humans and poultry animals live in close
contact with one another, will soon begin their migratory routes carrying
the virus as far south as Australia and as far east as the west coast
of the United States according to some reports. What is missing at
this point is the factor that will allow for the transmission of this
deadly virus from human-to-human. If that happens, the world could
see a pandemic of a scale not seen in our life times, or those of
many of our eldest citizens.
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Wednesday, May 18th Q2 2005 Meeting
Location:
The
Cobb Galleria Center
InfraGard Atlanta members were invited FREE OF CHARGE
to the Quarterly InfraGard meeting and Keynote Breakfast May 18th
Speaker:
For the third year in a row, SecureWorld hosted
the InfraGard Quarterly meeting on Wednesday, May 18th from 8am until
12noon at the Cobb Galleria Center in NW Atlanta.
Our Keynote address was from Dennis Treece, the CSO
and Director of Massport (the Massachuesettes Port Authority). Mr. Treece
is responsible for the security of Logan Airport, and all bridges, tunnels
and waterways surrounding Boston; a daunting task to be sure. He proved
to be one of the most interesting speakers we have ever had for InfraGard.
-Joseph Murphy, President,
InfraGard Atlanta
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March 24th Q1 2005 Meeting, 8am-12pm (NO
COST TO ATTEND MEETING)
Location:
GCATT
Auditorium
Speaker:
Mark Lobel, a Director in the PriceWaterhouseCoopers
New York security practice, presented the global results of the PwC
and CIO magazine 2004 security survey of more than 8,000 CEO's, CFO's,
CIO's, CSO's, VP's, and Directors of IT and Security. PriceWaterhouseCoopers
was also gracious enough to furnish and hand out reprints of the Global
Security Survey to all attendees.
Mr. Lobel moderated a panel discussion that include
Coca-Cola and Lend Lease. A former DHS executive from Washington also
participated in this discussion adding a unique dimension to the panel.
John-Paul Brennan
President
The Brennan Group,
LLC
Paul Huesken
Director of Information Assurance
The Coca-Cola Company
John Miles
Senior Vice President Global Systems and Services
Lend Lease Corporation
We were also pleased to announce that Vericept
Corporation is our breakfast sponsor for the March 24th event. They
offer "Enterprise Risk Management through Intelligent Content Monitoring."
Respectfully,
Joseph W. Murphy
President, InfraGard Atlanta
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Q4 2004 Meeting: Thu Nov 18, 8am-12pm (NO COST TO ATTEND MEETING) at
the Waverly Hotel, Atlanta (link
to directions)
Fellow InfraGard Members:
Our
last Quarterly Meeting was held on November 18th from 8am until 12pm
in conjunction with The INBOX Event, a three day conference
on all things related to e-mail and messaging security, products and
techniques. InfraGard members received a discount on tickets to attend
this conference. You may learn more about The INBOX Event by visiting
the website at www.inboxevent.com.
The sponsors of this program were InfraGard's host for our meeting.
Introduction
to The INBOX Event
Given the importance of e-mail and messaging to the nation's electronic
infrastructure we held the last meeting of the Atlanta InfraGard Chapter
at The INBOX Event on November 18. INBOX is the conference and show
where vendors, enterprise organizations and service providers gathered
to discuss and learn about the latest products and techniques for implementing,
managing, leveraging and securing their messaging systems. Whether it's
privacy, spam, phishing or any other issues to do with e-mail and messaging,
it's was addressed at the INBOX event.
InfraGard Atlanta
Chapter Meeting
When: Thu Nov 18, 8am-12pm (NO COST TO ATTEND MEETING)
Where: Waverly Hotel, Atlanta
Courtesy of: INBOX - The Email Event
Sponsored by: Ciphertrust
Program:
8:00-9:00am: Breakfast and Networking
9:00-9:30: Atlanta Chapter Business
9:30-10:30: Email & Messaging Security: The State of the Nation
Meng Wong, CTO, Pobox.com, Author SPF
10:30-12:00 Infragard Speakers
12:00 onwards: You were invited to participate in
any or all of the INBOX event at the Cobb Galleria.
Joseph Murphy
InfraGard Atlanta, President
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INFRAGARD ATLANTA PREVIOUS QUARTERLY MEETINGS
Q3 2004 Meeting was Monday, September 13th
8:0AM-Noon at e^deltacom (link
to directions)
This
past quarterly meeting wass scheduled for Monday, September 13th from
8am until 12 noon. It was held at e^deltacom which is located at 300
Satellite Boulevard in Suwanee, GA. (The commute northward towards Suwanee
is easy in the mornings, Joe does it daily).
We
were also pleased to announce that our breakfast sponsor for Sept 13th
was e^deltacom.
e^deltacom
is the largest data center storage facility in the southeastern United
States offering co-location and managed services for it's clients (www.edeltacom.com).
They volunteered the use of their e^deltatorium for our meeting in September.
WE
REQUIRED AN RSVP's FOR THIS MEETING. Click
HERE to RSVP.
Given
the nature of their facility, secure access is guaranteed, therefore
our RSVP's will facilitate the entry of InfraGard personnel into their
facility that morning. If you are in doubt, please RSVP anyway, it will
be better to have you on the list than to add you at the last minute.
InfraGard
Atlanta is pleased to announce we will have two separate presentations:
Our
first presentation was from Rich Baich,
CISSP, CISM, and CISO of ChoicePoint. Mr. Baich was selected as the
Information Security Executive of the Year in Georgia this past March.
ChoicePoint is the leading provider of identification and credential
verification services for business and government (www.choicepoint.com).
Mr. Baich presented on Identity Theft, his presentation was very well
received by the InfraGard National Congress in Washington this year
and we had the benefit of receiving this presentation locally from a
notable expert in this regard.
Our
second presentation was from Dave McGirt, VP/CTO of e^deltacom and Matt
Searfoss, Director - Hosting and Managed Services of e^deltacom. They
discussed the workings of a world-class data storage facility, and how
such a facility can support a company's business continuity needs effectively.
We
also met our new FBI InfraGard Program Coordinator at this meeting.
As a gentle reminder, the quarterly meeting breakfast sponsor enjoys
the one opportunity we offer for vendors to present to our membership.
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The
Q2 2004 Meeting was May 27 7:30AM-10:00AM at Cobb
Galleria
Infragard Atlanta was
pleased to announce the Second Quarter 2004 Infragard meeting occurred
in conjunction with the second annual Atlanta SecureWorld, May 26-27,
Cobb Galleria.
http://www.secureworldexpo.com/atlanta04.php
Infragard Atlanta invited
members to a complimentary Infragard Breakfast meeting, May 27th, 7:30am
- 10:00am that included a Keynote and Panel Discussion on "Corporate
Interface with Law Enforcement during or after a Critical incident,
both Physical and/or Cyber".
As a principle partner in the program Infragard members were invited
to the event with complimentary exhibit & open session passes and
a $60.00 discount off the $145.00 two day conference fee (Discount Code
INFR855)
Infragard members throughout
the region found SecureWorld programs timely, informative and a great
opportunity to network with peers in the industry.
In addition to the quarterly meeting, InfraGard Atlanta had an exhibit
table both days of the SecureWorld Expo.
Applications and brochures
were available to interested visitors.
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The
Q1 2004 Meeting was April 6, 2004 8:00AM-12:00PM
It
was at the GCATT facility at 250 14th Street.
The
meeting followed a different format this time with a panel of notable
experts who spoke in a 'roundtable' format while answering questions
from the membership about their concerns and interests relative physical
and cyber security planning and Business Continuity Planning. With the
continuing convergence of physical and logical security, new and emerging
regulations, potential liability issues and the ever growing threat
to our physical and IT worlds we needed to look at the entire security
picture. And then the big question came, once we have all these great
plans created, how are we going to get it all paid for, how will we
'sell it' to upper management and justify the expenditures?
Our
panel group included: Rich Baich, CISO - ChoicePoint (recently named
the Information Security Executive of the Year in Georgia), Bob Brand,
Director of Corporate Security - Cox Enterprises, Bob Lang, Director
of Homeland Security - Georgia Tech, Steve Edwards, SAIC - GBI, and
Dave McGirt, VP - e`deltacom.
Our
breakfast sponsor for this meeting was Cisco Systems, Inc. Thank you
to Seth Judd and Julie Pennington of Cisco Systems, Inc. for their generous
support of InfraGard in sponsoring our breakfast. The breakfast and
networking portion of the meeting began at 8am with the formal meeting
starting at 9am and concluding by 11:45am.
Those
who came to the meeting on April 6th learned how major corporations,
universities and the public sector handle these issues, what legal pitfalls
to avoid and what resources exist to help achieve success in this ever
demanding field of interest. The panel members helped answer those questions
and also provided some valuable answers.
