ISSA Pittsburgh Chapter
2005 Member Survey Results
Earlier this year a survey was sent out to all the recipients of the Pittsburgh Chapter of ISSA newsletter on a number of topics. Below are the results of the survey.
Meeting Topics
The surveyors were to rate a list of topics for meeting presentations and suggest any that were not on the list. The rating numbers were to be 1 through 5. 1 being the lowest score and the number 5 being the highest. All theses were added together for a final score for the topic.
Topic |
Score |
|
1. Cracking/Hacking | 41 |
|
2. Wireless Security | 39 |
Identity Theft |
39 |
|
3. Intrusion Detection/Prevention | 38 |
|
Security Awareness Program | 38 |
4. Incident Response |
37 |
5. Information Security Auditing |
36 |
6. Information Security Policies |
35 |
7. Vulnerability Assessment |
33 |
8. Computer Viruses |
32 |
Biometrics |
32 |
9. SPAM/Content Filtering |
30 |
Single Sign-On |
30 |
10. Encryption |
29 |
Other topics suggested by surveyors:
1. Ethical Hacking
2. Enterprise Authentication, Secure Content Management, End Point Security
3.
ROI and Cost Justification models being used for security expenditures
4. Scripting
5. SNORT
6. Windows 2003 Server Security (Active Directory/Group Policies)
Meeting Locations
The surveyors were asked
if they felt that the current meeting location at One Mellon is adequate for meetings?
| Location | Yes |
No |
Mellon 1 |
11 |
1 |
The surveyors were asked if they were willing to host a meeting at their location.
| Surveyor | Company/Organization |
Mac Grant |
ISS |
Greg Kosylo |
True North Solutions |
Ed Kubit |
Cadre |
Meeting Schedule
Currently the season schedule begins in September till December then resumes in February until May.
The surveyors were asked
often do you feel that the meetings should be scheduled?
Meeting Schedule |
Monthly |
Quarterly |
Votes |
8 |
5 |
The surveyors were asked
feel that the regularly schedule meeting start time of 11:00 a.m. is adequate?
Time of Meetings |
Votes |
11:00 a.m. normal start time |
7 |
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. range |
4 |
11:30 a.m.- 1:00 or 1:30 p.m. |
1 |
New Membership Recruitment Suggestions
The surveyors were asked, what ideas do you have in regard to recruitment of new members for our chapter?
Four surveyors stated that to update the chapter's website because it was out of date and people don't know that chapter is still active.
Develop a recruitment campaign strategy.
Talk to CSO and CIO level contacts to encourage their people to attend or get topics for the meetings that they would be willing to send their employees. Also have a recruitment event, maybe a Pirate Game. If you let a vendor sponsor it ISSA may not have to pay anything for the event.
Teaming up with the local Infragard. Security manufacturer presentations (RSA, Check Point, Juniper, Nokia, Network Intelligence, CipherTrust, BlueCoat Systems, etc.) There are many companies that would be willing to present to a group, and the group may be interested to hear form some of these vendors, or topic discussions.
Offer CISSP exam.
Would it make sense to set up a booth at the local university job fairs, specifically those where students are graduating with information security related degrees?