Monthly Meetings
Monthly chapter meetings feature cybersecurity industry experts presenting on current topics. Meetings are held in a hybrid format with both Zoom and in-person attendance options at the Mercer Island Community & Event Center.
2026
6 meetings
Breaches, data leaks, misconfigurations, increasingly strict laws and regulations have become common enough for IR Teams to require notification strategies. You may be proficient at investigating forensic details, reading packet captures, and analyzing memory dumps but do you have the skills and preparation to write customer notifications of a breach? Can you help translate the details of an incident to your legal team to author the public notice on your website of a personal data leak? If you are part of a Security Incident Response team and want to get ahead of the curve for your media cycle, join us in reviewing the Incident Responders' Guide to Notifications.
About the speaker
JR has a rich history of building security departments and security programs for some of the largest and highly regulated cloud service providers and online services in the industry. In addition to implementing defensive fortifications, he and his teams have a proven track record of crisis management for significant security and privacy related breaches. JR currently leads Product and Application Security at Rocket.
As software engineering evolves toward agentic AI systems capable of autonomously writing, reviewing, and deploying code, traditional security assurance models are no longer sufficient. This session examines emerging threats in model-first development environments and introduces new assurance domains for securing autonomous agents. It highlights the continued importance of human judgment, governance, and trust boundaries in ensuring safe and accountable AI-driven software delivery.
About the speaker
Frank Simorjay is a Principal Security Assurance lead at Microsoft with nearly 20 years at the company. He leads security assurance for the Business and Industry Copilot division, focusing on threat modeling, SDL reviews, cloud security, and scaling security culture through engineering enablement. A CISSP and ISSA Distinguished Fellow, Frank founded the ISSA Puget Sound Chapter and serves as President of the ISC2 Seattle Chapter. He speaks regularly on agentic AI security, threat modeling, and building security-first engineering organizations.
Working in Cybersecurity, we're all familiar with SOX. But do you know how we got there?
Join us as we cover Enron and Worldcom, their direct impact on SOX, and what we can learn from some of the fraud prevention techniques used in finance.
About the speaker
AK obtained her CISSP in 2023, after attending an ISC2 Seattle CISSP Bootcamp. She holds a Masters in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Washington and Bachelors in Biochemistry and Computer Science, both from Seattle University. She currently works as a Cybersecurity Engineer.