February 12, 2025
Demonstration and stories Rapid 7 SOC experts.
January 15, 2025
Join the (ISC)² Maine Chapter for a presentation with John Rogers, Senior Consultant at Monarch Information Security Consulting. His presentation will be on Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 which is the updated cybersecurity framework published in October 2024.
This event will cover John's perspectives on the role of the Cyber Security Assessor in assisting a company with their journey to obtain and maintain CMMC compliance. This compliance is a prerequisite for participation in the Department of Defense supply chain.
The event will be held at the offices of Cross Insurance in person at 2331 Congress Street Portland, Maine or online via Microsoft Teams Meeting
We welcome all active professionals in the Information Security field or individuals looking to move into information security as a career.
November 20, 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Presented by Steve Hyman at Netskope and Todd Humprey from WEI
In an era of increasing cyber threats and complex cloud environments, achieving a uniform, robust security posture across all endpoints and network environments is essential for any organization. This presentation showcases a successful project implementation that established universal security policy enforcement across diverse computing endpoints and cloud services.
Attendees will gain insights into a strategic and multi-layered approach to security policy enforcement, designed to protect data and maintain compliance across a wide array of devices, applications, and environments.
September 11, 2024
Details: Presented by Craig Gwinn of WEI and Matt Bohannon of Island Browser.
Explore critical use cases, including financial services application delivery, VDI reduction, business continuity, data integrity control, and more. Discover why the enterprise browser is essential now. Watch a live, detailed demo of its capabilities.
September 11, 2024
Secure Data Destruction - The NAID AAA Certification® Difference
Details: Join us for an engaging evening of cybersecurity discussions at the (ISC)² Maine Chapter event, where we will explore best practices for secure data destruction and asset disposal.
Our featured speaker, Allen Cornwall, Business Development Officer for GiveITGetIT.org, will provide valuable insights into these critical topics.
June 12, 2024
Officers meeting
March 13, 2024
Roundtable Discussion - New member recruitment and engagement
February 14, 2024
Email Sender Authentication SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
Presented by Jonathan Atnip and Scott Raba from Barracuda
Join us as we discuss DMARC Trends and Challenges! A breakdown on technologies that allow messages to be more trusted and how changes by major vendors in February could impact organizations. This is an onsite event, as well as available via MS Teams Light snack available.
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
Getting full visibility across an attack surface
Continuous Assessments
Prioritization
Communication of business risk