Topic: Planning for a Pandemic Flu - It is more than just washing your hands.
Most traditional disaster recovery plans do not adequately address the many issues that will be encountered during a pandemic flu outbreak. Brian will share practical advice on what you should consider when planning your response to a possible pandemic flu outbreak.

Speaker's Bio: Brian Wrozek is the Information Technology Services Security Director for Texas Instruments. He is responsible for all facets of electronic data and system security worldwide. His primary responsibilities include: policy, awareness, compliance, incident response, vulnerability assessments, disaster recovery, and forensics analysis. Brian has been managing the IT Security Team for over 8 years. He has spent 18 years in the technology industry with 12 of those years in a leadership role. His technical experience includes software development, relational database development, unix administration and security. His management experience includes leading helpdesk operators, unix / windows administrators and security administrators. He earned his BS in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University and his MBA from the University of Dallas. He spent 4 years as the President of the North Texas Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association. He holds an Information Assurance Certification from the University of Dallas. His is certified in Security Essentials from the SANS organization. He received the 2008 central region Information Security Executive of the Year award from Executive Alliance. He is married and has three wonderful daughters.

With the New Year upon us, it's time to start planning for our 2010 ISSA meetings. As you all remember, one of the chapter goals is to have members do presentations at our monthly meeting (interspersed with vendor presentations as needed). With that in mind, I am looking for volunteers. Give it a "think" and let me know if you are interested, your potential security presentation topic, and when you would be free to present. Your presentation need not fill the full hour, heck, 30 minutes would be great. Also, don't get hung up on the complexity of your presentation, your topic can be anything you feel would be helpful and informative for your peers.

Thanks in advance!

Have a Safe and Happy Holiday Season,
Gene McCormick

April:
Speaker: Ron Mehring, Senior Technology Director - Master Instructor, Ultimate Knowledge Institute Topic: NIST RISK Management Framework

May:
Speaker: Michael Starks, Sr. Security Analyst, Atos Origin Topic: TBD

President Steve Streiffert
Vice President Rick Baldree
Secretary Andy Stokes
Treasurer Randy Caraway
Membership Coordinator Gene McCormick