George Finney is a Chief Information Security Officer that believes that people are the key to solving our cybersecurity challenges. George is the bestselling author of several cybersecurity books, including the award-winning book, Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future. George has worked in Cybersecurity for over 20 years and has helped startups, global telecommunications firms, and nonprofits improve their security posture.
Patrick is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Brinks, Inc. Previously, he has served as an Advisory CISO, the Global Business Information Security Officer (BISO) at CBRE, and the Deputy CISO for Cheetah Digital. He is an Information/Cyber Security & Privacy Executive, Writer, Speaker, Knowledge Provider, and Seeker. Patrick works across all security domains and is experienced at building a security program from the ground up. He has been an Executive Business Partner with Experian and a Customer Delivery Executive with Dell Services. Over the years, Patrick has owned his own technology consulting company, led software development and infrastructure organizations, and worked with all levels of executive leadership in operation and security. He holds certifications as C/CISO, CISM, CRISC, CISSP, CCP, PMP, ITIL Expert, and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Patrick earned a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Texas at El Paso and a Bachelor of Science degree in Technology from Cameron University after serving as an enlisted soldier and commissioned officer for nearly 6 years in the U.S. In his spare time, he is a commercial pilot and flight instructor and qualified to fly corporate jets. He studies and teaches Aikido, rides motorcycles, Scuba dives, and is an avid reader of Chinese Philosophy. His favorite teaching is “From Chaos Comes Greatness,” a loose translation from the Chinese Book of Changes (I Ching). He is engaged and has two grown sons, four granddaughters, and a grandson. He lives and works in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Director of Information Security performing as Chief Information Security Function (CISO) with over 20 years of experience in broad range disciplines including transforming an existing IT security group into the next generation information security team and establishing an information security program from the ground up for a startup company.
Core competencies include establishing strategy and executing deliveries for Information Security program and practices in alignment with business; demonstrating strong leadership, collaborative and problem-solving skills; striving to learn and improve the growth and profitability of the company.
Proven leadership strengths include tactical and strategic planning in a forward-looking manner, crisis management, customer rapport, results driven-oriented, motivation and management of high-performance teams.
Demonstrate ability to communicate at all levels in the organization including translating technical terms and processes to an easy to understand language.
Houston Cybersecurity Conference
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Live in Person @ The Westin Galleria Houston
In Person | Virtual | Hybrid
Earn up to 10 CPE credits
About the Event
FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training discovering cutting-edge security approaches, managing risk in the ever-changing threat of the cybersecurity workforce.
Join us as we talk with a panel of C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks.
Educating C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers) on the global cybercrime epidemic, and how to build Cyber Resilient organizations.
“Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT problem”
Gain the latest knowledge you need to enable applications while keeping your computing environment secure from advanced Cyber Threats. Demo the newest technology, and interact with the world’s security leaders and gain other pressing topics of interest to the information security community.
The FutureCon community will keep you updated on the future of the Cyberworld and allow you to interact with your peers and the world’s security leaders.
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Keynote Speaker
George Finney
Chief Security Officer, Southern Methodist University Bestselling Author of Project Zero Trust and Well Aware
George Finney is a Chief Information Security Officer that believes that people are the key to solving our cybersecurity challenges. George is the bestselling author of several cybersecurity books, including the award-winning book, Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future. George has worked in Cybersecurity for over 20 years and has helped startups, global telecommunications firms, and nonprofits improve their security posture.
CISO/Industry Leader Panel
“Cybersecurity Leaders and Experts on Current Cyberthreats and Practices”
Gold Sponsors
Cloudflare, Inc (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, named the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company for two years running by the Wall Street Journal, and ranked among the world’s 50 most innovative companies by Fast Company. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, Boston, MA, Washington, DC, London, and Singapore.
Silver Sponsors
Cofense® is the leading provider of phishing detection and response solutions. Designed for enterprise organizations, the Cofense Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) platform leverages a global network of over 25 million people actively reporting suspected phish, combined with advanced automation to stop phishing attacks faster and stay ahead of breaches. When deploying the full suite of Cofense solutions, organizations can educate employees on how to identify and report phish, detect phish in their environment and respond quickly to remediate threats. With seamless integration into most major TIPs, SIEMs, and SOARs, Cofense solutions easily align with existing security ecosystems. Across a broad set of Global 1000 enterprise customers, including defense, energy, financial services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors, Cofense understands how to improve security, aid incident response and reduce the risk of compromise.
ColorTokens simplifies security for workloads everywhere. By making it easy to see security issues across different cloud deployment models, security products and stacks, including user and device visibility, it is easier for IT to be more efficient and secure. IT can take action and create protection zones and achieve compliance.
InNet partners with customers to design, deploy, and support a full suite of advanced technology solutions focusing upon enterprise and mid-market IT organizations and assisting in regards to networks, information security, business continuity, storage, cloud migration, virtualization and performance monitoring. As one of the most trusted solution providers in the Central and Eastern USA, InNet brings many years of valuable experience from a myriad of customer perspectives working with leading enterprise and corporate customers to deliver technology that meets business objectives.
Ask any CIO about corporate data and they’ll happily share all the work they’ve done to make their databases secure and compliant. Ask them about other sensitive information, like contracts, financial documents, and source code, and you’ll probably get a much less confident response. Few organizations have any insight into business-critical information stored in unstructured data. There was a time when that didn’t matter. Those days are gone. Data is now accessible, copious, and dispersed, and it includes an alarming amount of business-critical information. It’s a target for both cybercriminals and regulators but securing it is incredibly difficult. It’s the data challenge of our generation. Existing approaches aren’t doing the job. Keyword searches produce a bewildering array of possibly relevant documents that may or may not be business critical. Asking users to categorize documents requires extensive training and constant vigilance to make sure users are doing their part. What’s needed is an autonomous solution that can find and assess risk so you can secure your unstructured data wherever it lives. That’s our mission. Concentric’s semantic intelligence solution reveals the meaning in your structured and unstructured data so you can fight off data loss and meet compliance and privacy mandates.
Unitrends increases uptime and confidence in a world in which IT professionals must do more with less. Unitrends leverages high-availability hardware and software engineering, cloud economics, enterprise power with consumer-grade design, and customer-obsessed support to natively provide all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity. The result is a “one throat to choke” set of offerings that allow our customers to focus on their business rather than backup. Learn more at www.unitrends.com; follow us on Twitter @Unitrends.
Conceal enables organizations to protect users from malware and ransomware at the edge. Our Conceal Platform uses Zero Trust isolation technology to defend against sophisticated cyber threats. Conceal is used by Fortune 500 and government organizations to ensure users and IT operations remain secure, anonymous and isolated from cyber attacks.
AuditBoard is the leading cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, and compliance management. More than 30% of the Fortune 500 leverage AuditBoard to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. AuditBoard is top-rated by customers on G2 and Gartner Peer Insights, and was recently ranked for the third year in a row as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America by Deloitte. To learn more, visit: AuditBoard.com.
Right-Size Your Defenses to Reduce Threat Exposure Interpres Security provides an unbiased view of the enterprises’ security posture to help CISOs and security practitioners reduce threat exposure. Interpres Security analyzes the dynamic relationship between defensive and adversarial capabilities, prioritizes actions, and optimizes the security ecosystem for the enterprise, providing a single source of truth when it comes to defense surface management. Discover how Interpres can validate the effectiveness of your current security stack. Learn more about Interpres Security, visit www.InterpresSecurity.com.
D3 Security has been at the forefront of security orchestration, automation, and response since before the term SOAR was even invented. As a global leader among independent SOAR vendors, we’ve helped many of the largest companies in the world transform their security operations with automation. In our 10-year history, we have been a global leader in case management, incident response, and now cutting-edge SOAR that is an invaluable tool in fighting today’s cyber threats. D3 is always innovating, with new features, integrations, and technological breakthroughs. We were the first SOAR platform to fully embed the MITRE ATT&CK matrix for TTP-based analysis and correlation. Our Event Pipeline is also the first of its kind: a powerful asset for enterprises, MSSPs, and MDR providers that streamlines alert triage so that only genuine threats get escalated to human analysts—resulting in a 90% or greater reduction in alert volume.
LogicGate offers modern risk management technology empowering businesses to proactively transform risk enterprise-wide. Because risk is a team sport, we created the Risk Cloud Platform® — the most nimble and collaborative GRC solution out there. Rapidly adapt to changing business conditions. Confidently innovate and build new processes as you go. Collaborate on risk across your entire organization. Risk Cloud® gives you an interconnected view of risk across the organization that you just can’t get from point solutions. After all, great companies are built not by avoiding risks — but by choosing the right ones.
Datalink Networks is your trusted managed service provider We are a leader in managed IT services, with over 30 years of experience serving small to medium-sized organizations in both the private and public sectors throughout the United States. Datalink Networks can plan, design, build, deploy, support, and monitor IT solutions for your organization. Our team is available to meet your requirements and provide customized solutions to meet your business objectives and reporting needs. Our people are passionate about solving IT problems and delivering unrivaled support to your organization. When you call us you’re reaching someone who is experienced, who cares about delivering great service and great value, and who is dedicated to helping you out. Datalink Networks can be your IT staff (Managed Service Provider) or fill in a specific role: network security, cloud security, system administration, engineering, support, etc.
Probely’s founders are highly skilled application security engineers and web professionals who spun off from an AppSec team of an international Telco provider. The team experienced first-hand the problem of scaling an application security team and built Probely to help software vendors reduce their time to market. Probely is a venture capital-backed company.
Partners
A global association of 140,000 professionals in 180 countries, ISACA® (www.isaca.org) helps business and IT leaders maximize value and manage risk related to information and technology. Founded in 1969, the nonprofit, independent ISACA is an advocate for professionals involved in information security, assurance, risk management and governance. These professionals rely on ISACA as the trusted source for information and technology knowledge, community, standards and certification. The association, which has more than 200 chapters worldwide, advances and validates business-critical skills and knowledge through the globally respected Certified Information Systems Auditor® (CISA®), Certified Information Security Manager® (CISM®), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT® (CGEIT®) and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control™ (CRISC™) credentials. ISACA also developed and continually updates COBIT®, a business framework that helps enterprises in all industries and geographies govern and manage their information and technology.
Founded in 2012, the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) is a National 501(c)3 non-profit community, focused on empowering women to succeed in the cybersecurity industry. WSC’s mission is to advance women in cybersecurity careers by providing programs and partnerships that promote hands-on training, networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing and other professional opportunities.
WSC serves thousands of women across the globe by bringing awareness to, and advancing careers in, cybersecurity. The WSC community includes information security professionals, IT professionals, programmers, computer scientists and engineers, as well as women wanting to explore and join the field. Recognizing the importance of encouraging girls to embrace a future in STEM-related professions through its Cyberjutsu Girls Academy, WSC provides a unique hands-on curriculum focused on securing information technology. For more information, visit http://www.womenscyberjutsu.org.
The Pan Asian American Business Council (“PAABC”) is a non-profit organization consisting of Asian American businesses that would like to promote and grow their own and other Asian American businesses.
To enable Asian American owned businesses to develop and grow.
We put our heart and soul into this Cybersecurity Conference directory.
Way back in 2013 we had another website called “Concise Courses” which used to market and sell InfoSec training courses. We published a blog post listing all the upcoming InfoSec Conferences of that year, and Google loved the resource and put us right to the top of the search engines. That ‘accidental’ occurrence spawned this directory which is maintained by a small team comprising of Henry Dalziel and Charles Villaneuva and a bunch of freelance programmers.
What We Do:
We list, literally, every single Information Security conference, event and seminar within every niche in Cybersecurity.
We have a dedicated team that maintains our in-house tech stack, directory, and data curation.
The South Texas Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) is a non-profit organization of information security professionals and practitioners. South Texas ISSA provides education forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities which enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members. This Chapter is affiliated with the international ISSA organization, conforms to its professional and organizational guidelines, and supports the ISSA Code of Ethics. We encourage our members to pursue and maintain formal security certifications in their chosen fields and offer training opportunities to help members meet requirements for continuing education.
Agenda
Times are subject to change
Opening Introductions | Check In | Networking
Security Blindspots
Communicating Risk
Sponsor Networking Time
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Tricks for Endpoint Security
Building a Response Strategy
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Lunch
Keynote
George Finney
Chief Security Officer, Southern Methodist University Bestselling Author of Project Zero Trust and Well Aware
Sponsor Networking Time
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Current Risk Management
What is Cloud Security
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Defending Against Data Breeches
Identifying Threats in your Workplace
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Panel Discussion
“Cybersecurity Leaders and Experts on Current Cyberthreats and Practices”
