December 2025 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 seventeen years, BSI has raised over $32,000 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 is the President of National Security Corporation and has been a trusted provider of information security expertise to government, military, and commercial clients for over 30 years. A long-standing industry veteran, he has led the information security consulting firm he founded in 1988.
G. Mark is the author of the Information Security Handbook for Enterprise Computing and the Client/Server Security Handbook, and he is a contributing author to Network Security Secrets. He has served on three ANSI committees responsible for developing security standards for the financial and e-commerce industries.
A retired Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve, G. Mark is the former President of the 20,000-member Association of the United States Navy and has served in command nine times throughout his distinguished military career.
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Title of Event: Year in Review & Security Predictions for 2026
Event Summary:
What does 2026 have in store for cybersecurity?
Join G Mark Hardy for a forward-looking session where he will reflect on recent trends and share predictions for the year ahead. Additionally, we will take a moment to review our 2025 predictions and see how accurate they turned out to be.
The event will also feature Netskope and Veza Security, as they bring practical solutions to evolving problems and share their own predictions for how to stay cyber-safe in 2026.
Agenda: (Agenda time may be changed or updated – Lunch will be served during the presentation)
11:00 – 11:25 Registration
11:25 – 11:40 Welcome and Introductions
11:40 – 11:55 Netskope Presentation
11:55 – 12:10 Veza Presentation
12:10 – 12:50 G Mark Presentation
12:50 – 1:00 Q & A / Presentation Conclusion
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