December 2024 Lunch N Learn
In BSI’s continued efforts toward our charitable initiatives, we ask each guest to bring a new, unwrapped gift/toy for the Toys for Tots and All Children’s Hospital charity programs. With the help of our customers, over the past sixteen years, BSI has raised over $27,000 worth of toys from this event. We hope that you will join us in supporting this charitable initiative.
This event will be educational and informative. We offer ISC2 and ISACA CPE credits, if you provide us with your membership number, you are eligible to earn credits. We will provide ISC2 and ISACA certificates following the event.
Speaker:
G Mark Hardy, President of National Security Corporation, has been providing information security expertise to government, military, and commercial clients for over 30 years. A long-standing industry veteran that directs the efforts of the information security consulting firm he founded in 1988.
G Mark is the author of the Information Security Handbook for Enterprise Computing, Client/Server Security Handbook, and a contributing author to Network Security Secrets. G Mark has served on three ANSI committees writing security standards for financial and e-commerce industries. G Mark is a retired Captain in the US Navy Reserve, he is the past President of the 20,000-member Association of the United States Navy and has served in command nine times.
Event Sponsor: 
Title of Event: Ransom-where?
Event Summary:
Join us at Charley’s to hear G Mark Hardy discuss how we spend a lot of time trying to prevent ransomware, but in spite of our best efforts, it still happens. A lot. Small businesses, medical establishments, and local governments are becoming frequent targets because they often lack the resources of a large corporation. Learn what you can do with very little money to protect (or increase the protection) of your organization.
Additionally, Avertium’s Jacques Lucas will speak on Building a Robust
Security & Compliance Plan.
Agenda: (Agenda time may be changed or updated – Lunch will be served during the presentation)
11:00 – 11:25 Registration
11:25 – 11:45 Welcome and Introductions
11:45 – 12:15 Avertium Presentation
12:15 – 12:45 G Mark Hardy Presentation
12:45 – 1:00 Q & A / Presentation Conclusion
Disclaimer: Although this event is promoted as a “Christmas Event” BSI welcomes all other holiday greetings, opinions, wishes, and other salutations at our lunch. However, holiday wishes made by BSI customers are those of the individual merry-makers and do not necessarily represent the holiday wishes of BSI and its management. All merriments are welcome. Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all and a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2025 but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only “AMERICA” in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee.
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