Central Indiana ISSA Meeting - March 2026

We are excited to be back at Brooksource for our third 2026 CI-ISSA March meeting. Both speakers served as CI-ISSA president!

Speaker: Jeff Foresman

Title: Stop Auditing & Start Surviving: Build Security Programs from Real Breaches

Description

Security leaders are frequently given a clear directive: “make us compliant.” Frameworks and regulations are valuable, but many compliance-first programs end up optimized for documentation rather than for the cybersecurity breach patterns that are affecting organizations. These programs overlook issues such as identity compromise, targeted social engineering, business email compromise, exposed edge systems, misconfiguration, and third-party vendor pathways. The result is predictable: audits pass while attackers still find the shortest path to business impact.

This session presents a cybersecurity breach-informed method for building security programs “outside-in.” We’ll start with current breach statistics to identify the most common attack trends and the pathways attackers repeatedly use to gain access and cause impact. From there, you will learn how to turn those trends into a focused program roadmap: define the loss scenarios that matter most to your organization, pinpoint the failure points that allow an intrusion to become an incident, and prioritize the capabilities that will disrupt those paths. The emphasis is on measurable outcomes: reducing the likelihood of compromise, limiting fraud and data exposure, tightening access controls, and strengthening cyber resilience, rather than building a program optimized solely for documentation or audits.

Attendees will learn a practical translation model that maps cybersecurity breach patterns to failure points, capabilities, initiatives, and metrics.
Presentation Two:
Speaker: David Sims

Title: Controlled Aggression: Engineering Security for High-Performance Organizations

Description

Modern organizations are under pressure to move faster than ever. Product teams push for velocity. Executives push for growth. Security teams push for protection. Too often, these goals collide.

This session reframes cybersecurity through the lens of high-performance racing. In elite motorsports, speed is not achieved by removing brakes or minimizing safety systems. It is achieved by engineering systems so reliable that drivers can push to the edge with confidence.

This presentation explores:

• Why security is often perceived as organizational drag

• The “Brake Myth” and what it teaches us about control at speed

• How telemetry, feedback loops, and measurement outperform policy friction

• The strategic question every CISO should ask: “Is there any scenario where business loses but security wins?”

• How to align cybersecurity with business performance without sacrificing resilience

Attendees will leave with practical frameworks for shifting security from a compliance function to a performance enabler.

This is not a vendor presentation. It is an operating model discussion designed for practitioners and leaders navigating real-world tradeoffs between speed, risk, and resilience.

Dinner Sponsorship: TBD, event will be held at Brooksource's upstair bar.

Parking Information: See picture below for parking and entrance information.

Evening Agenda:

5:30 – 6:00 pm > Networking and Food (in-person only)

6:00 – 6:15 pm > Central Indiana ISSA Introduction and Chapter Business

6:15 – 7:30 pm > Meeting Speaker(s)

7:30 – 8:00 pm > Networking

*** Please note that the location for our chapter meetings is at Brooksource located at 6215 College Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220.

*** PLEASE ARRIVE as close to 6:00 pm. as you can ***

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Brooksource - Indianapolis, 6215 College Avenue, Indianapolis, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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