Join NAC-ISSA as Cloudflare sponsors our November 2025 Chapter lunch. The event takes place at the Auburn Research and Innovation Center on Voyager Way in Research Park. Adam Shattuck will present “Identifying and preventing bad actors in the current cybersecurity landscape". At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal — to help build

DC256 is proud to host Matthew McDougal AKA Doogie presenting BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY HACKING WORKSHOP. The event is being sponsored by the North Alabama Chapter of ISSA (NAC-ISSA). Ever wonder how your fitness tracker, smart bulb, or IoT device talks to your phone? Ever want to see if you could hack into it? Join us

Members and a guest are invited to attend the annual NAC-ISSA Christmas Party. Join us for an evening of networking, good food and great door prizes! This year, we will be at the Electic Belle in the Stovehouse event center.

Due to goverment shutdown impacts, this event has been rescheduled from November 13 to a new date of December 11. Palo Alto Networks is establishing an office on the campus of UAH in the I2C building. As a kickoff, they are inviting all interested in cybersecurity to a cybersecurity day event on Nov 13. Register

DC256 and NAC-ISSA kick off our first "Tech Thursday" hands on workshop with "Inside the Shark Tank". See inside of network traffic with the Wireshark network protocol analyzer. Pick apart packets piece by piece as we analyze networking traffic to tell a story of how different network devices talk between one another. Covering tips and

The increasing reliance on digital systems in modern rocketry, from design and manufacturing to launch operations and in-flight control, introduces significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Presentation, “Ignition Under Fire,” by Paul Coggin, explores the diverse attack vectors targeting rocket propulsion systems, examining potential consequences ranging from mission delays and data breaches to catastrophic failures. We will analyze

Join us for the first NAC-ISSA chapter lunch as Insight Assurance comes to discuss some of the common pitfalls and issues that they have observed in dealing with clients on their CMMC journey. The "view from the trenches" is to be an engaging discussion that isn’t just a rehash of generic CMMC information. Attendees will

Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise (TTX) Design & Facilitation Workshop This in-person tabletop exercise (TTX) training workshop is designed for professionals who want to do more than participate in tabletop exercises—they want to run their own. Participants will experience a facilitated cyber incident tabletop while also learning how to design, conduct, and document tabletop exercises that support incident response

The NAC-ISSA February 2026 lunch will be chapter sponsored. We are proud to present our chapter member and former chapter president, Jason Cuneo. Jason has worked with large municipalities in the US to secure their mass transit systems. Join us for a look into a different segment of cybersecurity than you may typically think about.

Presenter: Doogie NAC-ISSA and DC256 present our second Tech Thursday of 2026 at Gigaparts on Feb 19 at 6:00PM. This hands-on workshop moves beyond filtering and display into the craft of understanding undocumented protocols and using that knowledge to create a reusable Wireshark dissector. Attendees will walk away with their own network protocol dissector that can

Join us for coffee and discussions on practical automation strategies to simplify CMMC readiness. You’re not alone. Thousands of SMBs in the DIB face the same challenge. Meeting CMMC requirements doesn’t have to mean overbuilding your security program or blowing your budget. CMMC Without the Chaos is a practical, executive-friendly session designed specifically for small