Joint ISSA-ISACA Holiday Bash

1200 N. Broadway,Denver CO 80203

13 December, 2022

Description

Come and join your ISSA and ISACA colleagues for our annual cybersecurity community Holiday Bash!  Enjoy an afternoon with Prizes, great talks, drinks, and food!Hosted by Denver ISSA and ISACASpeaker:Allie Mellen Senior Analyst at Forrester Allie supports security executives and professionals in building and maturing their threat detection and response strategies. Her coverage includes the people, processes, and technology in security operations. From a technology perspective, this includes security information and event management (SIEM); security user behavior analytics (SUBA); security analytics (SA); security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR); endpoint detection and response (EDR); and extended detection and response (XDR). Her research focuses on the current state and evolution of ransomware, MITRE ATT&CK, analytics, AI/ML, detection, automation, and response in security. Allie has been a featured speaker at many leading security conferences, including RSA Conference, Black Hat, HOPE, and others. She has been quoted in top business press outlets including NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, CNBC, and Dark Reading. Previous Work Experience Prior to joining Forrester, Allie spent a decade in engineering, research, and technical consulting roles at MIT and several venture-backed startups. In addition to running her own engineering and development consultancy, she has also spent time as a security practitioner, doing hardware security research and working with product and infrastructure security teams. Education Allie holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from Boston University. ISSA would like to thank expel, our annual sponsor.