AUBURN HILLS ? A tour of the Combined Regional Emergency Services Training facility at Oakland Community College will be featured May 15 at the next meeting of the Motor City ISSA chapter. The CREST center is the result of ideas from local fire, police, EMS agencies and Oakland Community College. The concept of a training
DETROIT - The March 25th InfraGard half day meeting, which focused on public health preparedness and business continuity, drew more than 50 participants and generated a very positive overall response on the speakers, topic and value of the session. Excellent feedback was also gathered for use in planning future sessions. Users are seeing increased activity
CHICAGO - Returning to the Midwest this spring is Chicago SecureWorld on May 21-22 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. The Chicago event will draw renowned Security Practitioners, Senior Executives and Government Leaders, Leading Security Analysts/Consultants and more. The keynote lineup for this year?s event includes: Johnny Long, Professional Hacker, Author & Researcher speaking
TROY - The MiRSA will be meeting on May 8 immediately after the Workforce Development Committee meeting. The general WFD meeting starts at 8:30 am and the MiRSA meeting will start around 9:30 am. The WFD committee meets on the second Thursday of every other month; this will be our meeting schedule from now on,
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Michigan Homeland Security Consortium has elected a new board for 2008 that includes a lot of holdovers as well as some new faces. Officers include: Chairman - Keith Brophy, RCM Technologies President- Tom Hines, SecureMatrix Secretary- Steve Potter, Patriot Services. Potter is new to this post. Board members include: Melanie de
TROY - The team of Juan Velasquez, Ufuoma Edevbie, Zamira Aliko, and Mike Alsip won the After Hours Consulting Challenge held April 11-12 at the Walsh College Troy campus. Ernst & Young sponsored the Challenge for the best information security business case presentation. Four teams competed for bragging rights and prizes. Acting as information security
LANSING - Dan Lohrmann, Chief Security Officer for the State of Michigan, was named the 2008 CSO of the year by SC Magazine. The magazine sponsors the US Awards Program for outstanding achievement in information technology security. ?Dan does a fantastic job for us and for the citizens of Michigan,? said Ken Theis, Director of
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Crimeware-as-a-Service is the latest business model for cybercriminals, according to Finjan Inc.'s Q1 2008 Web Security Trends Report. The report, which outlined the findings of Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center, said that criminals have started to use online cybercrime services instead of dealing with the technical challenges of running their own
NEW YORK - Nearly 90 percent of Americans say they feel safe online despite the rising tide of spyware, phishing and other bad ware threatening Internet users, according to a new poll sponsored by StopBadware.org, the consumer protection initiative aimed at combating dangerous software. The poll, conducted by Zogby International, finds that 88 percent of
SAN JOSE, Ca. - In Symantec's Monthly Phishing Report, the company noted that the financial sector, including e-commerce and banking sites, accounted for the majority of the phishing attacks, which made-up 84 per cent of total fraud activity. "We will probably see a spike over the next couple of months with tax revenue phishing scams