ISACA

Became an ISACA member today.  It is short for Information Systems Audit and Control Association.  Between ISSA, ISACA, IEEE, ACM, and KMA, I hope to meet enough people to help me with my research direction and also support me in locating good articles and research material.

By: Nima Zahadat 

ISSA social networking meeting Rosslyn

Today I went to my second ISSA meeting which was for social networking.  I met Leonard, Scott, Berkley, and Dr. Ron Ross who works at NIST.  Dr. Ross is a security guru who puts out many of the NIST standards.  I introduced myself and told him what I am doing for my PhD briefly.  He gave me his email and asked me to email him and exchange contact info.  I did just that and hope to hear from him.  Leonard was a member and gave me a talk on mobile point-to-point encryption and agreed to send me contact info of some people in the field.  Scott was helpful and in fact he is the one who pointed out Dr. Ross to me.  I am hoping for some leads.  This Monday I will be meeting with Rick Tracy at Telos and on Tuesday will be talking to Diana Burley from GW who is a security guru.  Rick is also a security expert with focus on software development including security integration.  There are other associations named ISACA and IAA or IIA (not sure).  I might join them too and start this networking business more actively.  It might workout well.

By: Nima Zahadat