Apr 2025 Membership Meeting: Backdoors and Breaches

Whether you've never heard of backdoors and breaches (let alone played it) or are a Jedi Master, this event is for you. SPACE IS LIMITED.

By ISSA Portland Chapter

Date and time

Thursday, April 10 · 12 - 1:30pm PDT

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

Chapter Meeting: Backdoors and Breaches (Web Edition)

Join us and have fun sharpening your cybersecurity Incident Response (IR) skills with a real-time virtual tabletop exercise.

Outcomes:

- Learn from your peers in a safe, fun, and collaborative problem-solving exercise

- Get familiar with real-world threats, attack vectors, and what happens when presentation or response decisions don’t work

When:

Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 12:00PM – 1:30PM

Where:

This will be a hybrid event.

The Portland Building (Portlandia), Room 216

1120 SW Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204

Lunch is included at the event.

CPE credits:

This event qualifies for CPE credit.

Facilitator:

Brian Ventura

Brian Ventura is an experienced cybersecurity professional with over 30 years of industry experience.

Currently, he serves as a Partner at Cyverity, an information security consulting firm specializing in governance, risk, and compliance.

His diverse background includes roles in large international organizations, small to medium-sized businesses, and both government and private sectors, where he has advised, architected, and assessed secure solutions.

Brian's expertise encompasses enterprise information security governance, risk management, and compliance, with a particular focus on implementing and auditing the CIS Controls and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

In addition to his consulting work, Brian is a Certified Instructor at the SANS Institute, where he teaches courses such as SEC566: Implementing and Auditing CIS Controls and LDR512: Security Leadership Essentials for Managers.

He actively contributes to the development of the CIS Controls through his volunteer work with the Center for Internet Security.

Organized by

ISSA Portland Chapter

http://portland.issa.org/

The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)® is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members.

With active participation from individuals and chapters all over the world, the ISSA is the largest international, not-for-profit association specifically for security professionals. Members include practitioners at all levels of the security field in a broad range of industries, such as communications, education, healthcare, manufacturing, financial and government.

The primary goal of the ISSA is to promote management practices that will ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information resources. The ISSA facilitates interaction and education to create a more successful environment for global information systems security and for the professionals involved.

$10 – $25