December 2011 Newsletter

Message From the President

Dear Members,

Thank you all for your support over the past year – I hope our events schedule has exceeded your expectations and you have enjoyed being a member of the UK’s largest independent association of security practitioners.


We announce Gabe Chomic and Les Fraser as winners of this year’s elections.  Les will continue in his role as VP Scottish Region and Gabe joins us as VP of Alliances.  Congratulations to you both.

This month we put together a successful Incident Response Planning workshop in Bristol and thank Adrian Wright for his assistance.  We also ran events in Leeds and Glasgow on Trends in Information Security and thank Les Fraser for his help.

I am looking forward to seeing you at our December events – we have a Social Networking event planned for December 8th, and our annual Microsoft Security Day planned for December 13th.

If you have enjoyed our events, do remember that you can invite a friend or colleague as part of our guest programme (first meeting free) – please feel free to distribute this link, as we continue our efforts to top Northern Virginia and become the largest ISSA Chapter in the world – https://www. issa.org/Join/Visit.html.

Following our December events, our schedule will start again on the 8th of March, with our first chapter meeting.  We will announce the full schedule along with new member benefits in January.

In the meantime, we are looking for a member in the South West area (Bristol /  South Wales) to assist with events in that region. If you do know of anybody or would like to help, please do get in touch.

Best regards,

Tim Holman
ISSA UK President

In this month’s Newsletter…

Check out our new-look on-line newsletter, which will better reflect changes to news, events and partner events as they happen, as well as integration with our news updates from Twitter and EventBrite (for ISSA events agenda and bookings).

ISSA UK Events:

Catch-up with the next ISSA UK events agenda and registration details:  please see: ISSA UK Events

Partner Events:

Catch-up with our partner and associate events. For member discount codes please see accompanying email. Partner Events

ISSA UK In the News

Catch up with the latest news from the ISSA, whether in print or conference speaking from our ISSA management team. ISSA UK In the News

ISSA Election Results

Election results are now in and many thanks to all who voted. As the two candidates with most votes, Gabe Chomic and Les Fraser are elected as Officers at Large of the ISSA UK Chapter. For full election results, please see the ISSA website.

Bletchley Park: Action This Day:

£1.7million in match funding must be raised by the Bletchley Park Trust in order to unlock the £4.6million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the restoration of Bletchley Park. The crumbling Codebreaking Huts have been offered a lifeline by the HLF but it is a race against time to raise the funds needed to complete the investment package before they are lost to the nation forever. When the Codebreakers wrote to Churchill, in October 1941, starved of resources to do their essential work, Churchill immediately ordered, “Action this day! Make sure they have all they want on extreme priority and report to me that this had been done”.

Seventy years on Bletchley Park are repeating Churchill’s request. The Bletchley Park Trust has received tremendous support over the past few years but now a permanent solution is so close and we need public support more than ever. In broad terms each £1 from you will unlock £2.70 more from HLF.
For further details to support this initiative please see: http://www.bletchleypark.org/contentcontact/donation/support.rht