SACRAMENTO, CA - (ISC)²

ISC2 Chapter Event: April 17, 2024

Location: TopGolf, Roseville

Sponsors: SentinelOne

Hello ISC2-Sacramento chapter members and guests. Let us start this off with a question. What is 74/63/85? Just in time for the Basketball playoffs, THAT, is what we call a Sacramento chapter record setting Triple Double! That is right friends and colleagues. For April’s event we had 74 guests registered and 63 actual attendees which equates to an 85% attendance ratio at our crowd favorite, TopGolf. Those are all record numbers for our growing chapter. We, at the ISC2-Sacramento Chapter Board, are humbled by your attendance and support.

Now to our sponsor SentinelOne. First, thank you for your generosity and support. Secondly, thank you for presenting a truly relevant topic that generated a lot of conversation. For those that were unable to attend, and for attendees that need a refresher, Michael Lakav, Director of Sales and Engineering at SentinelOne brought his “almost” 20 years of experience and spoke to us about The Future SOC. If you thought AI would be a big part of the conversation, you would be right. To help the conversation along, Michael showed SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform XDR supercharged by Purple AI. You may ask why SentinelOne named their AI solution “PurpleAI”. Michael let us in on the naming of their AI. Purple was chosen because it is a mesh between the colors red and blue. A nod to the offensive and defensive teams of security experts who go to battle regularly. The overview provided demonstrated how AI can not only help, but is necessary to help run a SOC. With upwards of 10,000 SOC alerts daily, tools like XDR that take advantage of AI can help SOC analysts ingest data, consolidate alerts, normalize data, and provide reporting at a faster rate using common text. For more on this topic, you can reach out to your local SentinelOne contact, or reach out to anyone on the ISC2-Sacramento Chapter board to put you in contact with them. For those that were unable to attend, these are the types of topics and conversations you are missing.

Like all events, the presentation was followed by quite a bit of fun on the TopGolf Bays. We did not observe anyone being able to take down this year’s PGA Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, but we did see attendees George Pinney and Jon White battling for the overall 1st and 2nd place all evening. Keep working on that game everyone. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the next event!