What we’re about
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) is a not-for-profit, international professional organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It was founded in 1984 by Sandra M. Lambert and Nancy King (albeit work on its establishment started in 1982). ISSA promotes the sharing of information security management practices through educational forums, publications and networking opportunities among security professionals. ISSA is present in more than one hundred countries, including Europe and Asia, with more than 10,000 members.
As the founding chapter of ISSA, ISSA Los Angeles (ISSA-LA) has become the premier catalyst and community resource in Southern California for improving the practice of information security. The Chapter provides various training classes and lectures for information Security and IT professionals throughout the year and at the annual Summit. We accomplish this by providing:
- Education, networking and support to information security practitioners
- IT practitioners with information security responsibilities
- Information security vendors
- Outreach, advocacy and education to the broader Los Angeles community
ISSA-LA meets monthly for lunch and dinner and regularly collaborates with other IT and InfoSec organizations, having joint meetings with ISACA, OWASP, the Cloud Security Alliance, HTCIA, and the Association of IT Professionals to name a few.
Upcoming events (4)
See all- You, Cybersecurity & the Boardroom: The Good, Bad & UglyAccenture, Los Angeles, CA
You must register and pay to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/you-cybersecurity-the-boardroom-the-good-bad-ugly-tickets-956638660987
### Topic One: You, Cybersecurity & the Boardroom: The Good, Bad & Ugly
Speaker One: Bob Zukis
Bob is the Founder and CEO of Digital Directors Network. He is the world’s leading advocate and expert on digital and cybersecurity governance in the corporate boardroom. He leads an organization of over 1,500 directors, CEOs CIOs, CISOs, CTOs and other executives working to strengthen the board as a control in the complex digital business system.
He is an emeritus member of the NACD PSW board and is a Senior Fellow for The Conference Board’s ESG Center. Bob is also a former Adjunct Professor at the USC Marshall School of Business and is a retired PwC Advisory Partner. He was a member of PwC’s Global and APAC leadership teams and led their IT strategy and operations practice and west coast cybersecurity services practice. He has also held roles as a SaaS CEO and executive director, PE advisor, and advisory board member.
He’s the lead-author of The Great Reboot – Succeeding In A Complex Digital World Under Attack From Systemic Risk (2nd edition), Digital and Cybersecurity Governance Around The World, and Social Inc. Bob’s a contributor for Forbes.com and has been published or quoted in Harvard Law Review, Corporate Board, NACD Directorship, Wired, CIO Magazine, Computer News, Info World, DM Review, CIO Update, The Financial Times, WSJ, Risk Professional, Computer World, and the Atlantic’s Quartz.
- ISSA LA Summit 2024Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, CA
You must register and pay to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/issa-la-summit-2024-women-in-security-forum-tickets-808590023527
Your General Admission ticket gives you access to all the Summit 2024 talks including the Women in Security Forum on 10/9 and the Opening Reception on 10/8.
If you attend only one conference this year, make it Summit 2024 — ISSA-LA's 14th annual Information Security Summit — the premier Information Systems Security Event in Southern California. The Summit is known for its groundbreaking keynotes and speakers, and this year will be no exception.
There are several events in Southern California, but none like ours. The Summit will have an all-day forum and great tracks for you to choose from.
This is the best opportunity in SoCal to:
- Learn about the latest Information Security trends and solutions
- Listen to world-class speakers, including several keynotes from other conferences
- Get group discounts with 3 or more attendees
- Earn CPEs
- Network on the beachDon’t wait to register for what is going to be the biggest and most important gathering of information security professionals in Southern California this year.
- The Metawar ThesisAccenture, Los Angeles, CA
You must register and pay to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-metawar-thesis-tickets-956697226157
### Topic One: The Metawar Thesis
Metawar is the art and science of creating immersive experiences to influence, alter, and define one’s sense of reality. It is the battle for control over one’s belief systems, identity, and sense of reality outside one’s conscious awareness. Reason and emotion are incompatible operating systems. Big Tech is digitally terraforming the planet’s future cognitive infrastructure, Web 3.0, with little concern for the downsides. The metaverse is an evolving, immersive storytelling environment designed to be the most powerful and addictive reality distortion machine ever conceived. It will also predict and anticipate your every desire and every move!
On the global stage, metawar represents the sixth domain of warfare. They who control the technology control the narrative, and reality is only a keystroke away.We have no choice but to learn how to coexist with the reality-distorting technologies we have created by implementing technical, policy, and cognitive defenses to protect our sense of truth, reality, and self-identity.
Is this the future we want? Where reality becomes so blurred by convincing disinformation creation and dissemination that entire cultures can no longer discern facts or evidence of truth? And who do we trust to build and manage our realities? Humanity must learn to adapt to and coexist with the technologies we have created.Get ready for a ride that questions what it means to be a human and how much agency you really have.We have been given a second chance.
We will not get a third.Last time, we knew, and yet we did nothing.
Speaker One: Winn Schwartau
Winn has lived Cybersecurity since 1983, and now says, “I think, maybe, I’m just starting to understand it.” His predictions about the internet & security have been scarily spot on. He coined “Electronic Pearl Harbor” while testifying before Congress in 1991. His seminal book, “Information Warfare,” showed the world how privacy would die and cyberterrorism would be an integral part of the future (today’s present).
His upcoming book, "The Art & Science of Metawar,” describes how to defend against AI-driven reality distortion, TMI/disinformation, manipulation, and algorithmic addictions by strengthening the mental immune system.
• Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts
• Distinguished Fellow: Ponemon Institute
• International Security Hall of Fame: ISSA
• Lifetime Achievement Award, DefCon XXXI
• Top-20 industry pioneers: SC Magazine.
• Top 25 Most Influential: Security Magazine
• Top 5 Security Thinkers: SC Magazine.
• Power Thinker and one of the 50 most powerful people: Network World.
• 30 Year DefCon Goon (Ret.)
• Top Rated (4.85/5) RSA Speaker