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Security's Coming of Age: Can InfoSec Mature and Save the World - Dave Chronister (ShowMeCon 2015) (Hacking Illustrated Series InfoSec Tutorial Videos)

Security's Coming of Age: Can InfoSec Mature and Save the World
Dave Chronister
ShowMeCon 2015
http://www.showmecon.com

The world is waking up to the reality that we are not secure. Once accepted security-best-practices have been shown to be ineffective. Many in the InfoSec community who were once called paranoid have been proven correct. The InfoSec community is growing at a rapid pace and now has the opportunity to make effective changes to secure the world. Unfortunately InfoSec is not rising to the occasion. In this talk Dave will discuss the issues facing the InfoSec industry and propose changes to mature our field into a mature effective industry.

Bio: Dave Chronister is co-founder and Managing Partner of Parameter Security, an ethical hacking firm. As a Certified Ethical Hacker and Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Chronister possesses deep security expertise in some of the most heavily regulated industries including financial services and healthcare. Specifically, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Payment Card Industries (PCI), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Cutting his teeth on technology at the age of 5, Chronister gained an instant attraction to the inner-workings of his computer. Before the age of 8, he wrote his first computer software program and by the time he was a teenager he ran one of St. Louis? biggest networked bulletin board systems. It was at this time he experienced war dialing and first encountered the underground world of hacking. During the course of his professional career, Chronister served as Architect for A.G Edwards? electronic messaging system ? the largest Exchange Server deployment at the time. At Cybersource, he was the technical liaison to the various credit card organizations, developing their payment card compliance standards. Additionally, working with numerous medical and dental practices, Chronister served as Technical Advisor helping these practices meet HIPAA compliance. Recently, he served as Chief Technology Officer for a $700 million dollar bank holding company for over 5 years prior to starting Parameter Security. Chronister?s expertise has been featured on television?s CNN, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Fox Business, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, America Now with Leeza Gibbons, FOX 2 KTVI, KMOV Channel 4, KSDK News Channel 5 as well as several local radio stations. Also spotlighted in online and print publications such as FOX Business News, CNBC, CBS, Associated Press, CIO Magazine, Information Security Magazine, InfoWorld Magazine, Computerworld, Entrepreneur Magazine, Popular Science, American Banking Journal, BankNet 360, Bank News, Credit Union Tech Talk, The Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Suburban Journal, St. Louis Business Journal, St. Louis Business Monthly and other publications. Plus, Chronister has written several articles for numerous industry publications. Chronister is also a member of The Information Systems Audit & Control Association, The International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants, The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Information Systems Security Association and InfraGard. He previously served as a board member for the St. Louis Chapter of InfraGard.

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