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ISSA Rochester Chapter

Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

May 2024 Chapter Meeting

Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Flaherty's Three Flags Inn, Macedon
Matthew Wright, Professor and Chair of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology, will provide an interesting talk on DeFaking Deepfakes and the challenges for real-world mitigation of manipulated media.

Past Meetings

2024

April 2024 Chapter Meeting

Thursday, April 11, 2024
Dan Didier, Principal, CyberRisk One and Paul Robinson, Managing Director, Tempus Network will provide a demonstration and discussion on Bridging the Gap and Two Things You Should Never Do.

March 2024 Chapter Meeting

Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for insightful talk about Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Governance by F. Paul Greene.

February 2024 Chapter Meeting

Thursday, February 8, 2024
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner at Flaherty's Grill & Tap Room in their party room and stay for a game of Backdoors and Breaches.

January 2024 Chapter Meeting

Thursday, January 11, 2024
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for a casual "After the Holidays" get together. Enjoy great food and drink and get a chance to meet your 2024 Rochester ISSA chapter officers.

2023

December 2023 Chapter Meeting

Monday, December 4, 2023
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner at the Dinosaur BBQ in their upstairs party room as well as a presentation by local infosec practitioners Rich Savacool and Derek Gerhard!

March 2023 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Whether you are a current ISSA Rochester Chapter member, a prospective member or just want to learn more about what the chapter has to offer, we want to hear from you!

2022

December 2022 Holiday Party

Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for food, networking, and white elephant gift exchange.

Noveber 2022 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for food, networking, and an excellent presentation by Tenable’s Sean Jennings.

2019

July 2019 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for Happy Hour at Mulconry’s, including food, raffles, and a chance to meet with other security professionals.

February 2019 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, February 28, 2019
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for Happy Hour at Mulconry’s, including food, raffles, and a chance to meet with other security professionals.

2018

October 2018 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, October 25, 2018
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for Happy Hour including food, raffles, and a chance to meet with other security professionals.

June 2018 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, June 21, 2018
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its June chapter meeting and Happy Hour at Mulconry’s as well as an exciting presentation by cyber threat intelligence expert, Josh Burgess.

2016

June 2016 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its June Happy Hour event. The meeting has been sponsored by Vandis and Carbon Black, so appetizers and drinks will be served! Admission is free.

January 2016 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Come join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its January chapter meeting and Happy Hour at Mulconry’s next week, sponsored by Grey Castle Security.

2015

June 2015 ISSA Happy Hour Event

Monday, June 22, 2015
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its June Happy Hour event. The meeting has been sponsored by Forsythe, so appetizers and drinks will be served! Admission is free.

2019

August 2019 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, August 22, 2019
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by Darktrace.

June 2019 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, June 13, 2019
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by Radiant Logic’s Senior Solutions Architect, Michael Filippone.

May 2019 Joint ISSA-OWASP Meeting

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Join the local Rochester ISSA and OWASP chapters for a special presentation on the OWASP Amass Project by Jeff Foley and Anthony Rhodes.

May 2019 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its May chapter meeting. This month’s meeting will provide a hands-on network forensics training session with Kali, a popular Linux distro used for pentesting.

April 2019 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, April 25, 2019
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by Tevora’s Managing Director, Cloud Security, Christopher Callas.

2018

December 2018 Joint ISSA-OWASP Meeting

Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Join the local Rochester ISSA and OWASP chapters for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a special presentation by past RSS presenter and cybersecurity expert Jim Keeler.

November 2018 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, November 15, 2018
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by TrendMicro Sr. Systems Engineer, Amy McMahon.

September 2018 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, September 20, 2018
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by FishTech CTO, Shawn Butler.

2017

July 2017 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, July 13, 2017
Join Security Compass as they host an evening with both the Rochester ISSA and OWASP chapters and discuss How Billion Dollar Enterprises Manage Application Security at Scale, presented by Altaz Valani, Research Director.

June 2017 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, June 29, 2017
Please join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its June chapter meeting at Mulconry’s next week for a fun event sponsored by GuidePoint Security, CrowdStrike and Splunk.

April 2017 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, April 20, 2017
Join Cylance as they host an evening with the Rochester ISSA Group – Dissecting the OPM Breach presented by Chris Coulter – Worldwide Managing Director, Incident Response and Forensics.

2016

September 2016 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, September 15, 2016
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by incident response and forensics expert, Adam Dean.

April 2016 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by renowned ethics professor, Bruce Oliver.

February 2016 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Come join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its February chapter meeting and Happy Hour, sponsored by SMP at its offices in Henrietta.

2015

November 2015 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Thursday, November 19, 2015
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by malware subject matter expert, Yury German, from Blue Coat.

September 2015 ISSA Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Please Join the Rochester ISSA, with sponsor Bit9/Carbon Black, for dinner from Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by Senior Manager of Engineering for Bit9/Carbon Black, Chris Meile.

April 2015 Chapter Meeting

Monday, April 6, 2015
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for dinner from the Dinosaur BBQ as well as a presentation by cybersecurity expert, Bryan Orme, from GuidePoint Security.

March 2015 Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its March chapter meeting. This month’s meeting is the second of three hands-on sessions with Kali, a popular Linux distro used for pentesting.

February 2015 Chapter Meeting

Monday, February 23, 2015
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its February chapter meeting. This month’s meeting is the first of three hands-on sessions with Kali, a popular Linux distro used for pentesting.

January 2015 Meeting

Thursday, January 22, 2015
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its January chapter meeting. The meeting has been sponsored by FishNet Security.

2014

November 2014 Chapter Meeting

Thursday, November 20, 2014
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its November chapter meeting. The meeting has been sponsored by Radware, so there is free Dinosaur BBQ provided as well as an in-depth presentation by security expert, Dennis K. Uslé.

August 2014 Chapter Meeting

Monday, August 18, 2014
Join the local Rochester ISSA chapter for its August chapter meeting. The meeting has been sponsored by IBM, so there is free Dinosaur BBQ provided as well as an in-depth presentation by security expert and IBM Tiger Team member, Jose Bravo.