September 2025 Chapter Meeting
Join us on-site in New York City or on Long Island, or virtually, for our September 2025 Chapter meeting on September 17, 2025 featuring:
• A presentation on Continuous Controls Monitoring from RegScale, and;
• A discussion on proactive defense strategies for critical infrastructure organizations by Koch Foods
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.
Membership in the Chapter is open to all cybersecurity professionals and students. If you are not already a member, please visit our membership page for more information.
Agenda:
5:00 – 6:00 In-Person Registration, Networking and Event Setup
6:00 – 6:10 Welcome and Chapter Business
6:10 – 7:00 From Burden to Breakthrough: Transforming GRC with CCM – RegScale – Presenting onsite in New York City
7:10 – 8:00 Enhancing Proactive Defense Strategies for Critical Infrastructure – Koch Foods – Presenting virtually
Topic Summary: From Burden to Breakthrough: Transforming GRC with Continuous Controls Monitoring
Traditional GRC programs, with their manual processes and delayed insights, are buckling under the weight of modern business demands. This session will demonstrate how Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) transforms slow, static GRC processes into dynamic, AI-powered solutions. Attendees will learn how leading organizations are improving speed, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness by leveraging CCM’s real-time data, extreme automation, and AI-driven insights. We’ll also offer a practical roadmap with actionable strategies for implementing CCM in your organization..
Speaker 1: James Sumka, Senior Solutions Engineer, RegScale
James has over a decade of experience as a risk and compliance practitioner. Much of his career was spent in PwC’s Cyber, Risk and Regulatory Advisory group, where he designed and implemented strategic risk programs for banking, healthcare and telecom clients. As a Senior Solutions Engineer at RegScale, James acts as a trusted advisor, partnering with customers to better understand existing gaps within their security, risk, and compliance programs and identifying the CCM outcomes required to close those gaps. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and former Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
Topic Summary: Operational and Strategic Considerations for Using Generative AI in Security
Speaker 2: Mike Wilkes, Former CISO at Major League Soccer and Current Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University’s Enterprise Risk Management Program
Mike Wilkes is a security professional who has built, transformed and protected companies such as Lark Health, SecurityScorecard, ASCAP, Marvel Entertainment, AQR Capital, ING Bank, KLM, Rabobank, CME Group, Sony, Macy’s, Blockbuster, Starbucks, Harley-Davidson, Nike and dozens of other prominent and well-known Internet brands.
Nominated as a member of the World Economic Forum in 2020 for being a technology pioneer, he has served on their working groups for cyber resilience in the oil and gas industry as well as quantum security. He started his career with the US Department of Education in the far western laboratory, supporting California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah K-12 public education.
A Stanford graduate and author of the book “Cisco Internet Applications and Solutions” for Cisco Press in 2002, he is a featured speaker at technology conferences for Black Hat, Gartner, GovWare, and SANS and is an adjunct professor at NYU teaching cybersecurity courses for the Cyber Fellows (returning adult professionals), graduate students and the newly created certification programs for CIOs and CISOs. Recent public sector engagement has included serving on the Area Maritime Security Committee (AMSC) for Sector New York with the United States Coast Guard and authoring industry benchmark reports and whitepapers for the White House on third-party risk management.
An avid jazz fan and musician, he is also on the board of trustees for the National Jazz Museum in Harlem serving as the chair of the new media committee.
