Become an ISC2 CGCC Member!
The ISC2 Central Gulf Coast Chapter, a 501(c)(3) non-profit based out of the Greater New Orleans area.
It was chartered by ISC2 in January 2021 to serve the Central Gulf Coast region - all Louisiana and the Mississippi coast.
Chapter Events:
Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance
May 19th | 6 p.m. CST | Virtual Meeting
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is a Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Professor Ferguson teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and a seminar examining police surveillance technologies, privacy, and civil rights.
Professor Ferguson is a national expert on predictive policing, facial recognition, video analytics, big data surveillance, the Internet of Things, juries, and the Fourth Amendment. He has written over 35 law review articles and book chapters which have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the California Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and the Notre Dame Law Review, among others. Professor Ferguson is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and was an Advisor to the ALI Principles of the Law, Policing Project.
His legal commentary has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Time, USA Today, the ABA Journal, the Atlantic, and other national and international newspapers, magazines, and media sites.
June 2nd | 6 p.m. CST | In Person & Virtual
Social Engineering Parables
Jun 25th | 6:00 pm CST | Virtual
With more than 25 years of information security experience, Chris Silvers, CISSP, MBA, is the Founder and Principal Consultant at CG Silvers Consulting, a boutique information security firm based in Atlanta, GA. He has delivered featured presentations at DEF CON, TEDx, DerbyCon, and various universities, community events, and industry conferences.
Feb 2026- The Journey To and Through IT Audit Management, Robert Zeller, Medical Mutual
Jan 2026- Hacking AI: How to Survive the Robot Uprising, Gant Laborde, Infinite Red, Inc.
Jan 2026 - The Conscious Uncoupling of the ISMS and PIMS, Emily Heintz, Schellman
Nov 2025- Deceive to Defend, Peter Tomis, Fortinet
Sep 2025 - Bowling with Menlo Security, Danny Le, Senior Solutions Engineer
Aug 2025- Taming the Hacker Storm by Roger Grimes, KnowBe4 Inc.
July 2025- Energy Espionage by Chahak Mittal, Learning Care Group
June 2025- FIDO/WeAuthn by Raphael Fiedler, Nexufend
June 2025- Women+ in Tech: Southeast Louisiana, Chapter President Bailey Vathy
May 2025- Digital Forensics: The Quiet Heroes of Incident Response by Matthew Snoddy, Network Therapists, Inc.
Apr 2025- Annual Chapter Members Meeting
Feb 2025- What the Hack by Artic Wolf
Aug 2024- DevSecOps Unleashed by Jim Jenkins, Vantage West Credit Union
July 2024- Quantum Encryption by Roger Grimes, KnowBe4
June 2024- AI Innovations with GRC considerations by Jennifer McBride
May 2024- Dark Web Monitoring by Robert Villanueva, Q6 Cyber
May 2024 - BSides NOLA
Apr 2024 - Spring "AI and Cyber" Panel Discussion led by Infragard, Louisiana State Police, and SecureNation
Apr 2024 - Annual Chapter Members Meeting led by Chapter Leaders: Darrell, Ben, Sonny, Troy, Forest, and Allen
Apr 2024- It's All Greek to Me led by Panigiotis Soulos, ISC2 Global Achievement Award Winner
Mar 2024- Are we teaching Cybersecurity Wrong? led by Gabriel Friedlander, Founder/CEO of Wizer Training
Feb 2024- Effective Risk Assessments led by Richard Raue, Founder/CEO of HiTech
Jan 2024- Why Israel is a Cyber Innovation Leader led by May Brooks-Kempler, ISC2 Board of Directors