PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN MEETING TIME & LOCATION FOR AUGUST ONLY

 GNO ISACA in conjunction with Tulane School of Continuing Studies announces the first monthly

GNO ISACA/Infragard Cyber Security SIG joint meeting:

 John McCumber of Symantec 

 Analysis of the Internet Security Threats of 2008

If you saw the 60 Minutes story on the conficker worm a few weeks ago, you only saw a brief overview of the cyber security dangers in 2009.  In 2008 more than 1.6 million new malicious code signatures had to be created to stop malware. The surge in malicious activity primarily targeting computer user's confidential information  is the result of attackers relying more and more on customized malicious code toolkits to develop and distribute malicious exploits. Find out who is doing this, what specific information they are targeting and why this affects US consumers and what affect this is having on individuals and companies. How do these threats affect your personal information and what should you do to protect yourself, your work and your family?  Join us for  our first official joint meeting of the Greater New Orleans chapter of ISACA and the /Infragard Southeast Louisiana Membership Alliance (ISELAMA) Cyber Security Special Interest Group (SIG) in New Orleans. 

Biography:

 John McCumber is the strategic programs manager in the Public Sector Group of Symantec Corporation.  He is currently involved in research and development activities in support of leading edge government information assurance initiatives.  Mr. McCumber is a retired US Air Force officer and former Cryptologic Fellow of the National Security Agency.   During his military career, in the Persian Gulf War, he also served in the Defense Information Systems Agency and on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon as Information Warfare Officer. 

In addition to his professional responsibilities at Symantec Corporation, Mr McCumber is currently a professorial lecturer in information security at the George Washington University in Washington, DC and is technical editor and a monthly columnist for Security Technology and Design magazine.  He is the author of Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems: a Structured Methodology from Auerbach Publications.  He lives in Falls Church, Virginia and Cary, North Carolina.