ISSA Central Plains Chapter
May 6th,  2016

 

Central Plains Chapter Meeting:

"Improving Security Metrics", Ron Shuck, Speedy Group Holdings Corp

Ron Shuck is the Director of Information Security at Speedy Group Holdings Corp. Ron is responsible for development, administration and oversight of SGHC's global Information Security program. His team provides information security services, such as firewall, intrusion prevention, anti-virus, risk and vulnerability assessment, web proxy, and identity and access management. Ron has been with Speedy Group since November of 2014. Prior to joining Speedy, Ron was Global Computing Security & Network Services Manager for Spirit AeroSystems, the world's largest supplier of commercial airplane assemblies and components. Prior to Spirit, Ron was the Director of Information Security Services at SKT Business Communication Solutions where he established, managed and provided technical direction and focus for the Information Security Practice.

Ron has over 15 years of experience in information security, and 30 years IT and management experience working with enterprise networking and UNIX based systems. Ron received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Wichita State, and his Masters in Business Administration from Friends University. He has numerous professional level security certifications, and participates in the security community as founding and current president of the Central Plains Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).


Ron will be presenting on Security Metrics


It doesn't matter if you are trying to advance your organization's security program, or looking for a way to justify a security spend. Security metrics are important. The problem is that producing reliable and effective information security metrics is not easy. Peter Drucker is often quoted as saying that "you can't manage what you can't measure". What he meant was, how can you know when you have succeeded if you haven't defined and tracked what success means. To this end, security metrics can be a powerful tool if used correctly. This presentation will suggest one way to do just that.

The topics of this presentation include:

  • What are security metrics
  • Benefits of security metrics
  • Goals for security metrics
  • An approach to security metrics
    • Metric composition
    • Real world examples

 

 

The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)® is a not-for-profit international organization of information security professionals and practitioners.  It provides education forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members. We hope the ISSA will provide a chance to interface with other IT professionals and further your awareness of security practices and technologies.

 

This meeting is open to the general public with no expectations of membership.


Date:       Friday, May 6th, 2016
Location: Rockwell Branch Public Library

               5939 E 9th ST N, Wichita, KS 67208
Time:     1:00 pm until 3:00 pm