December 12 @5:30 PM – Rick Howard on Cybersecurity First Principles

Register: This is a Hybrid meeting. A dinner meal and drinks will be served (Meal menu TBD). This will be a catered event and advanced registration is required. REGISTER HERE IN PERSON & ONLINE ZOOM. Registration closes on Monday 12/09/2024. The Location is Marymount University Ballston Center Auditorium: 1000 N Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA 22201.

Abstract: Please join us as Rick Howard leads a discussion regarding reducing infosec programs down to the absolute cybersecurity first principles.

About the Speaker: Rick is the N2K Chief Security Officer and the Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow at The Cyberwire, a cybersecurity podcasting network. His prior jobs include CSO for Palo Alto Networks (security vendor), CISO for TASC (government contractor), GM for iDefense (A commercial cyber threat intelligence service at Verisign,) Global SOC Director for Counterpane (one of the original MSSPs), and Commander for the U.S. Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team where he coordinated network defense, network intelligence and network attack operations for the Army’s global network. He was one of the founding organizers of the Cyber Threat Alliance (an ISAC for security vendors) and he also created and still participates in the Cybersecurity Canon Project; a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for cybersecurity books. Rick holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the US Military Academy. He also taught computer science at the Academy from 1993 to 1999. He has published one book on cybersecurity and has been the executive editor for two others.