ISSA Minnesota Chapter Meeting

January 16, 2007

President, Rick Ensenbach opened the meeting.

Items of business:

• Thanked our corporate sponsors for their support
• Introduced the Chapter board members
• Announced Security Professional of the Year – Mary Brown. Awarded plaque to Mary for her dedication to the Security field.
• Awarded a Thank you plaque to Kelley Archer for his dedication to the chapter during his 7 years of serving on the Chapter Board of Directors.
• Summarized the corporate sponsor meeting held in December. The meeting was successful and the Board received good feedback from our sponsors.
• Announced the Health Care SIG
• Secure 360 conference update – Plans are progressing. New website is available. Can register sponsors, exhibitors and attendees on website. Can’t do credit cards until end of January. Conference will be at the River Center is St. Paul again. Expecting over 500 attendees and 80 exhibitors. Many other associations with other domains will participate. The Platinum sponsor will be Microsoft, Cisco is Diamond and Lucidata and Milestone are also interested in sponsorship.
• Reminder to keep your ISSA contact information up-to-date so you receive chapter information.
• Reminder that scholarship applications are due in April. The applications must be for students going into the IT field; it does not have to specifically be the security field. All applications are taken into consideration. The application and information are on the chapter website.
• New meeting location will be the Four Points Sheraton off 35W. Will probably start in July. More information will come later.
• Looking for 2 people to be on audit committee for chapter.

Chad Boeckman

Acknowledged 24 chapter members who have been members for 10 years or longer. Also acknowledged 9 people who have been members for 16 years or more. In recognition of long-standing membership, a drawing for an ISSA jacket was held and David Hedblom was the winner.