Join us on Tuesday, July 19 for our monthly chapter meeting with a special guest speaker:

Abstract
Come to this interactive session to learn how to learn the Incident Response with Backdoors & Breaches, an Incident Response online game, created by Black Hills Information Security and Active Countermeasures. Backdoors & Breaches contains 52 unique cards to help you conduct incident response tabletop exercises and learn attack tactics, tools, and methods. The session will open with a review of the rules of the game, and then participants will go through one of the risk scenarios with the facilitator.

Speaker Bio

Alex Grohmann has over two decades of experience in technology-related information security, risk management and data privacy.  During his career, he has worked at both the state and Federal level, and his private sector involvement has spanned from energy to financial services. He is the founder and operator of Sicher Consulting, LLC. Mr. Grohmann holds industry certifications of CISSP, CISA, CISM and CIPT. He holds two undergraduate degrees from Florida State University as well as an MBA from UMUC.  

 

Mr. Grohmann is a Fellow at the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), an international organization of information security professionals. He is the recipient of their international ‘Honor Roll’ for his lifetime contributions to the information security community. He has served on the board of directors for the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA for over ten years, including as president for three.  During his time, the chapter won the Chapter of Year. 

 

He is a graduate of the FBI’s Citizens’ Academy and served on the board of directors for the Washington DC chapter of InfraGard for four years. Currently Mr. Grohmann serves on the board directors of Northern Virginia Community College’s Workforce Development taskforce, NOVA Cybersecurity Advisory Board and is a mentor at MACH 37, the Virginia cyber security accelerator. He also sits on the IT sector coordinating council (IT-SCC).

 

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