Our own Rob Garbee (Bio below) will be presenting Thursday,  August 11th, at R&K Solutions (Google Maps). Rob will be talking about 5 steps to getting the funding you need for IT Security. As we all know getting the funding for personnel or security tools can often be difficult. If you haven’t had a breach everyone often assumes everything is fine. Why do we need all this security stuff? Rob will cover some strategies to win the battle with management to justify the security funding you need.

Bio: Robert Garbee works as a Technical Security Analyst with a mid-tier medical service provider in Roanoke, VA.  In this role, Robert is responsible for managing risk and compliance aspects for both HIPAA related activities and overarching business concerns.   Robert has more than 20 years of experience in information technology and during that time has held IT positions in the banking industry, DOD contracting, and most recently HIPAA security and compliance.  Robert is a graduate of Liberty University with a BMIS degree and holds an ISC2 CISSP certification.  Prior to starting his information technology career Robert served seven years as a crew chief on C-5 Galaxies in the United States Air Force.

We are ready and set for our next meeting on June 9th.  This meeting will be hosted by our friends at SyCom Technologies:

SyCom Technologies
2800 Electric Rd #103c
Roanoke, VA 24018

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We will start at our usual time of 5:30pm.  Our speaker this month is Allen Surface and his subject will be Security Architecture: Then and Now.  Allen will walk us through how Security Architectures have changed over the years, where they are headed and how we need to plan for these changes.  Allen is a founding member of RISE and has worked for the past eight years as a solutions architect with SyCom Technologies.  He is currently focused on designing network and security solutions for various customers in both medium and large scale networks.  Prior to moving into his Security Architect role Allen was responsible for implementing hardware solutions such as Intrusion Prevention Systems, Firewalls, and DMVPNs.   What this says is that Allen is one of us!  He is a down in the trenches kind of guy that is willing to share his experiences with us.  Come on out and support one of own and hear his take on where we are all headed as IT Security Professionals.