June 2025 Chapter Meeting
Join us onsite in New York City or Long Island, or virtually, for our monthly Chapter event on June 25, 2025 featuring a featuring a presentation on:
- marketplace software security from Koi Security – presenting in NYC, and;
- the defense against malware and cybercrime by Roger Grimes – presenting virtually.
The registration link can be found below. Members can get their promo codes by logging into the Chapter website and going to their “My Page”. Sponsor promo codes have been previously distributed. Non-members and the public are invited to attend and can register for a nominal fee or join the Chapter. Our annual membership is $40 for professionals and $15 for students. Meeting fees are waived for members. This event will qualify for two Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.
Agenda:
5:00 – 6:00 In-Person Registration, Networking and Event Setup
6:00 – 6:10 Welcome and Chapter Business
6:10 – 7:00 Beyond the Click: Securing Your Enterprise’s Hidden Software Highways – Koi Security
7:10 – 8:00 Taming the Hacker Storm: A Way to Defeat Cybercriminals and Malware – Roger Grimes
Presenter 1: Martin Smajlaj, Sales Executive, Koi Security
Topic Summary: Beyond the Click: Securing Your Enterprise’s Hidden Software Highways
Today’s one-click installations from public software marketplaces create unseen security gaps within enterprises. This presentation exposes these ‘hidden software highways’ – from VS Code to Hugging Face – and demonstrates how a strategic approach to supply chain governance can transform these threats into secure pathways for innovation.
Speaker 1: Martin Smajlaj, Sales Executive, Koi Security
Martin Smajlaj is a cybersecurity professional with a strong track record in sales and engineering. He was among the first employees at Transmit Security, helping to revolutionize CIAM solutions and contributing to their record-breaking $543M Series A funding round. His career includes key sales roles at IBM Turbonomic and Cisco ThousandEyes, where he was the first New York hire. Earlier, he joined Riverbed Technology through the acquisition of Mazu Networks, where he was the second employee in New York and expanded the region to over 100 enterprises. His foundational engineering experience includes roles at Exodus Communications, International Network Services, and AOL, where he contributed to building early internet infrastructure. Martin holds a BScEE from Manhattan University, a MScEE from Columbia University, and an MBA from UMass Amherst.
Presenter 2: Roger Grimes
Topic Summary: Taming the Hacker Storm: A Way to Defeat Cybercriminals and Malware
Malicious hackers and their malware creations are rampant on the Internet. Ransomware is taking down companies, hospitals, and even entire cities at will. Hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen, and millions of people’s accounts are stolen every day. A large portion of the Internet is just hacker traffic, phishing, and their malware programs. However, most people are unaware that we can significantly reduce Internet crime, making it nearly impossible for hackers and their malware creations to be successful. There is a way to make a far safer Internet for you, your children, your grandchildren, and your grandparents. We have most of the needed technology, we just need to make it more pervasive.
Attend this session to learn about:
- The ONE BIG UNDERLYING COMPUTER SECURITY PROBLEM that underlies all other problems
- How fixing that one problem will make the Internet a far safer place for the world to compute
- Hear about the cool new Internet DNS-like service that will make it far harder for hackers to hide
- Come learn what it would take and how you can help to one day make hackers and their malware creations something future generations learn about in history books
If you’re tired of just hearing about the problem, come learn how to SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
Speaker 1: Roger Grimes
Roger A. Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4, Inc.
Roger is a 36-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications, and author of 15 books and over 1,500 articles on computer security. He has spoken at many of the world’s biggest computer security conferences, been in Newsweek™ magazine, appeared on television, been interviewed for NPR’s All Things Considered™, the Wall Street Journal, and been a guest on dozens of radio shows and podcasts. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee, and Microsoft. He has consulted for hundreds of companies, from the largest to the smallest, around the world. He specializes in host and network security, quantum security, identity management, anti-malware, hackers, honeypots, Public Key Infrastructure, cloud security, cryptography, policy, and technical writing. His certifications have included CPA, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CEH, MSCE: Security, Security+, and others, and he has been an instructor for many of them. His writings and presentations are often known for their real-world, contrarian views. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines between 2005 – 2019.