Meeting/Event Information

DAMA Philadelphia welcomes Mark Roxberry for a special presentation and panel in honor of Cyber Security Awareness month.

Many in our community have raised questions around Security Best Practices for their organizations.  As we are flooded with reports with varying statistics Cyber Security is everyone’s job.  Some recent statistics state:

• Cyber attacks occur every 39 seconds
• Cyber attacks impact 1 in 3 Americans every year
• The average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million and moving in an upward trend.

This meeting will focus on raising awareness and countermeasures we should be acting on as IT and Data professionals.  We will would also like your questions to share during a panel discussion on how we as professionals and a community help protect against cyber-attacks, data breaches, and ransomware attacks.

   Submit your questions in advance for the panelists to answer!   Email [email protected] or reply to this email.

Speaker Bios

Mark Roxberry has over 20 years as a skilled architect and developer with experience designing, developing, and ensuring secure applications using advanced technologies. Mark is a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) with significant experience employing and promoting secure coding practices and designing security architecture models that ensure the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of information assets of his clients and principals. Mark is an active member in OWASP, the Open Web Application Security Project, that focuses on improving security for businesses, customers, and developers.

Mark will present The OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks Project. The OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks Project provides a top 10 list for privacy risks in web applications and related countermeasures. It covers technological and organizational aspects that focus on real-life risks, not just legal issues. Mark will share OWASP tips on how to
implement privacy by design in web applications with the aim of helping developers and web application providers to better understand and improve privacy.

Cramer Snuggs

In addition to his role as Senior Security Evangelist for Acronis, Cramer Snuggs is also the Founder and Chief Executive of Cascade Technologies, an MSP based out of Myrtle Beach, SC. Cramer graduated from Lees-McRae College (LMC) where his professional career began when he took his first role in IT as a Computer Technician for LMC. An entrepreneur at heart, Cramer started Cascade Technologies in 2017, and has grown it into an international organization with clients across the U.S. and in Latin America. Cramer and Cascade Technologies leverage Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud to provide world-class protection to all Cascade customers, both large and small. “My career and company have always been something special to me because every day I know I am making a difference in people’s lives and organizations.”

Jim Sahm
Jim Has served in numerous roles and responsibilities within the Department of Defense, corporations, and the New Jersey Casino market. He has over 30 years of experience in IT systems, systems operations, cybersecurity, infrastructure management, and software development. He is a retired Colonel from the United States Air Force after serving for 23 years in various combat and non-combat command assignments. He is a Senior Consultant with Database Solutions, Inc. He holds an MBA from the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University, an MS in Software Engineering, and a MA in Operational Science.

Tom Ruiz -- Tom is currently serving as the Network Operations Manager for Penn Medicine where he is a member of the leadership team responsible for a networked environment of more than 150k devices. He has an associate’s from Brookdale Community College in Networking Information Technology (2012), a bachelor’s degree from Drexel University in Computing and Technology (2016), and a self-proclaimed mastery of saying “do we have a change window approved for this?” In his career, he achieved a number of vendor neutral and vendor specific network certifications, most expired at this point preventing him from posting their logos to his resumé. During his 10+ year technical career, Tom has served in roles ranging from Help Desk Analyst to Network Manager of Operations, with most of his background and exposure coming from the IT world of the healthcare vertical.

We also want to offer this special opportunity for DAMA Philadelphia members in November:   Caserta is hosting a Data Intelligence Summit on November 17th. This event is to guide leaders on using data to transform business.  As long-time members and supporters of the DAMA Philadelphia community, Casserta is generously extending a free pass to all DAMA members.   Please register at: https://caserta.com/data-intelligence-summit-2021   DAMA members may use the code DAMA100 at checkout.  (a $199 value)

We still hope to host an in-person event at the start of 2022 -- please look for announcements soon.  If your company would be comfortable hosting, let us know!