It is a challenge for a volunteer chapter organization to maintain and grow their membership, let alone provide their communities with a source for cybersecurity expertise. Officers and members have a lot going on so why add more to their agendas? How do we address these challenges, enhance our membership engagement, and show our community that (ISC)² chapters can help? By planning and executing a robust marketing and outreach plan, it will help chapters fulfill objectives in their chapter’s charter while providing both members and the community with mutual benefits.
In this talk, Patrick J. Sullivan, Membership Chair from the (ISC)² Middle Georgia Chapter, will discuss some challenges facing chapters today, why marketing and outreach should be a stated goal and practiced activity for chapters, some ways to get started, and some activities to consider.
Patrick J. Sullivan
Director, Xacta Support Services
Membership Chair, (ISC)² Middle Georgia Chapter
Presenters Bio
Patrick J Sullivan is Director, Xacta Support Services at Telos Corporation and part-time faculty at Middle Georgia State University. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran with over 23 years of experience in cybersecurity policy, technical implementation, and management. He has a MS, BS, AAS degrees in Information Systems and maintains CISSP, CEH, CHFI, AWS cloud and MS Azure Cloud certifications. In his current role, he supports Telos’s Xacta suite of security software in on premise and cloud environments. He has experience securing IT systems in private industry, USAF, U.S. Navy, U.S. Intelligence Community as a Cybersecurity leader and practitioner. Mr. Sullivan is Co-Founder and past president, current Membership Chair of the (ISC)² Middle Georgia Chapter, a member of the MGA, member of (ISC)² Chapter Advisory Committee.