Past Events

January 10, 2024



The Trouble with Cyber Security 


Presenters: Andy Chandler


"The Trouble with Cybersecurity" speaks to what we do wrong in the industry, and then turns to what we do right.

Cybersecurity planning and architecture are about making informed, right-sized decisions for your organization, your users, and your employees.

This presentation focuses on the methods organizations should have in place as foundational elements in their cybersecurity program.


November 15, 2023


What is IAST? How can it make your developer’s lives easier from a Security Perspective?


Presenters: Pranoy De and Tony Quadros


DESCRIPTION:  This session will give you a foundational understanding of IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing), what it is, how it works, and provide you, as a security engineer or software developer, with the knowledge of how it can make your lives easier when it comes to doing security analysis of your applications and code. 


OBJECTIVE: After attending this session, you will understand the fundamentals of IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing)


September 13, 2023


Planning For a Zero Trust Architecture following the guidance of the NIST 800-207 framework.

The presentation will be brief overview of the NIST 800-207 planning guidance by Dennis Tuttle followed by a presentation by Nuno Sousa (Senior Sales Engineer) at NetSkope to describe how the Netskope ZTNA and SASE (Secure Access Secure Edge) address the requirements of the NIST 800-207 and provide critical tools to enforce consistent security policies across all endpoints from any source network.


We’re hoping for a lively discussion on what organizations are doing to transition from a legacy perimeter based environment to a  "Never Trust, Always Verify" infrastructure.


June 14, 2023


Maine Chapter Elections.

Current positions and associated elected dates are as follows for your information. Officers are appointed for a one-year period and are subject to reelection.

President: Dennis Tuttle
 President Emeritus: Jockel Carter

Treasurer: Gary Soucy
 Secretary: Russ Sanderlin
 Membership Chair: David Casper
 Programming Chair: Justin LaFontaine
 Tech Chair: Ryan McArthur


May 10, 2023


Portland's Roux Institute Computer Science Department will be graciously hosting the Maine ISC2 chapter at their Portland Campus. We are grateful and excited to host two excellent speakers. We will be hearing first from Roux's Dr Valcourt who will be discussing network security and an upcoming initiative. We are also excited to hear from our chapters own Elyse who has been a large contributor to cybersecurity in Maine and the region for years. Please join us and get to know the Roux too. This event will be primarily in person but will also have virtual support.

April 12, 2023


Membership Roundtable 


Among the items we'll be discussing are tracking vulnerabilities and assessing systems. We'll also discuss some upcoming events. Wednesday, 12 April · 6:00 – 8:00pm

February 8, 2023


James Troutman, Director of Technology, ISP for Tilson Broadband. James described how VPNs are Internet Snake Oil. His presentation covered the the features of VPNs and provided recommendations for limiting online tracking. 

January 11, 2023


Jock Carter was the founding president of the Maine ISC2 Chapter in 2012. He has a robust cybersecurity career in New England who is currently the Tyler Tech Internal Security Architect. He has a robust career and has held various positions at Tyler Technologies.

November 9, 2022

ISC2 Maine membership roundtable discussion! We'll be discussing some best practices and lessons learned. We want to hear of your cybersecurity successes and spooky horror stories. This meeting will be both in person and hybrid. Please add your topics to the MaineSec discord or in Meetup meeting notes so people can come prepared.

October 12, 2022

As presented at DEFCON 30: Misinformation has been around for as long as humans could talk, and it's usually pretty low tech - but what is the role of offensive security in misinformation campaigns? Topics include: user spoofing tactics (and account takeover), XSS, and site vandals.

September 14, 2022

ISC2 is back in session on September 14 at 6 pm! We're excited to announce that this meeting will be hybrid at Tyler Tech in Yarmouth and via Google Meet.

We’ll hear from Technical Solutions Engineer John Kimberly at Tanium. In this role, he assists corporations, governments, and educational institutions mitigate the myriad of challenges surrounding enterprise end-point management, and the challenges around auditing inventory, patching, software licensing/distribution, asset discovery and Threat Response, among others. Food and refreshments will be provided, and Tanium has hinted that they will be bringing some giveaways.

As always, ISC2 Chapter meetings are a great way to meet fellow security professionals, learn new things and earn those continuing education hours.


February 9, 2022

Risk Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) presented by Mark Madjarev from Tenable

RBVM includes