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Past Meetings and Topics

September 16, 2025

AI Security
Join us for a discussion with
 John Franolich
What a Cyber Security Professional Needs to Know About AI Todayand Applying that Knowledge to Create a AI Threat Landscape.
This talk will cover the practical basics on AI for security professionals. Building on that knowledge the talk will then apply that knowledge to create an AI Threat Landscape for an organization tailored to modern adversaries.

Refreshments Sponsored by Google Cloud

If you would like to submit an idea for a presentation, please send us an email to Contact@PittsburghIssa.org.

August 19, 2025

Vulnerability Discovery
CVE-2025-33073

Join us for an eye-opening presentation from Cam Stish as he shares the accidental discovery of CVE-2025-33073, a critical Kerberos Reflection vulnerability that enables attackers to bypass authentication in Active Directory environments.

Refreshments Sponsored by Guidepoint Security

July 15, 2025

Minimum Viable Business and Cyber Resilience
Join John Murphy of Rubrik to discuss essential business services and long-term business resilience.
Meeting Refreshments Sponsored by Rubrik

June 17, 2025

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
Join Stephanie Saunders  and Steve Maxwell of TrustedSec for a discussion of PCI-DSS Compliance.
Meeting Refreshments Sponsored by TrustedSec

May 20, 2025

HIPAA Compliance and Security 
Join Andrew Belsick and Justin Wolfgang of BDO for a discussion around Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance and security.

April 15, 2025

Risk Management
Join Tracy Kobeda Brown of MRC (Merchant Risk Council) to discuss approaches to Risk Management

March 18, 2025

Network Artifacts Hands-On
Bring a personal laptop and join Dave Spehar(Google) and James Ringold(Microsoft) ​for hands on with packet captures to identify patterns and threats transferring over your  network.

February 18, 2025

Container Security
Join John Zeolla(Zanable.io) for a discussion of Securing Containers and Containerized Applications
Container Security 101
Container Security 201  

December 17, 2024

Network Artifacts
Join David Spehar (Google) and James Ringold (Microsoft) providing an overview of network indicators of compromise and network forensics and packet capture techniques.

November 19, 2024

Threat Landscape 2024
Join David Spehar (Google) and James Ringold (Microsoft) for a discussion of the current threat landscape reports from Palo Alto Networks, Google / Mandiant and Microsoft.