President's Corner

ISSA-COS Fellow Members,

“… and a partridge in a pear tree!”  Welcome to December: Candles, Twinkling Lights, Candy Canes, and the hope of a better year to come in 2021. But, before we stick a fork in 2020, let us take a look at everything we have been doing to finish the year and what we are doing to prepare for the next one. To kick-off November, we enjoyed an encore performance from Mr. Michael Wyle, Director of Cybersecurity, Richie May Technology Services. Mr. Wyle resumed his discussion from earlier this year to complete his presentation on the “Intro to Malware Analysis and Response (MA&R).”  Just like before, his presentation was very well received. Mr. Wyle has a gift to taking extremely complicated subjects and converting them to easy to understand discussions. If you missed his presentation, enjoy the playback from our chapter website – and collect CPE/CEU credits too! In the heart of November, ISSA-COS hosted the 10th Annual (Virtual) Peak Cyber Symposium (produced by Secret Sauce Events, LLC in collaboration with Global Event Management, LLC). Despite the shift to a virtual format, the need to extend the duration of this event, and the pre-recorded presentations (yet, with live Q&A), both registration and participation were greater than we could have ever imagined. We received numerous compliments on the simple, clean layout of the Whova virtual platform. We even had many participants say Peak Cyber was the *best* virtual conference in all of 2020. Wow! What a compliment!.  ......MORE