2026
July 21st, 2026 Culver City, CA – ISSA-LA – The AI Shift in Cybersecurity: What Breaks, What Survives, What Wins
April 21, 2026 – CIO Arena Long Beach – Executive Panel: Building Organization Readiness for AI
2025
October 30th, 2025 LMU – Cybersecurity Case Studies in Cyber Defense – Guest Lecturer
October 9th, 2025 16th Annual Southern California C-Level Technology Leadership Summit in Partnership with Southern California Huntington Beach, CA – Executive Panel: Securing the Future Against Geopolitical Cyber Risks
June 11th, 2025 Planet Cyber Sec, Santa Monica – The Great Security Reset: Scaling Privacy & Compliance After Splitting from a Parent Company
February 20th, 2025 LMU – Cybersecurity Case Studies in Cyber Defense – Guest Lecturer
March 7th, 2025 Information Security Leadership Foundation – Virtual Session (Vulnerability Management Showcase)
2024
August 14th, 2024 California – Cyber Breakfast Club Meeting – Building Security & Privacy Engineering Teams
2023
June 14th, 2023 Planet Cyber Sec – Healthcare Security Panel – Santa Monica
February 9th, 2023 LMU – Cybersecurity Case Studies in Cyber Defense
2022
May 25th, 2022 Santa Monica – OWASP LA – Building a Viable AppSec Program
February 3rd, 2022 LMU – Cybersecurity Course Guest Speaker
2021
CISO Talk with Jason Azar (YouTube and Podcast format available)
August, SecureCISO Los Angeles – Cyber Predictions Panel
2020
October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month Cyber Security Live Stream! on MentorMesh with Justin Vallese and Jae Taylor
October, 2020 Virtual Event – ISACA LA CRISC Training
June, 2020 Virtual Event – ISACA LA CRISC Training
2019
November 23rd, 2019 Rosemead, CA – ISACA LA CRISC Training
September 12th, 2019 LMU – Cybersecurity Course Guest Speaker
September 11th, 2019 Westlake Village,CA – Evanta Global CISO Executive Summit Mobile-centric Zero Trust Security Framework
May 14th, 2019 Anaheim, CA, ISACA NA CACS – Expressing Cyber Risk: A Capital Markets Examination
April 17th, 2019 ISSA International Webinar – Practical Advice for the Proactive SOC: How to Escape The Vicious Cycle of React
April 16th, 2019 Deep Dive into Safe-T’s Software Defined Perimeter Webinar
February 6th, 2019 Long Beach, CA – Laserfiche Empower: Executive Leadership Track Expressing Cyber Risk: A Capital Markets Examination
February 20th, 2019 Westwood, CA – Innovate@UCLA Young Tech Professionals Bootcamp guest speaker
January 9th, 2019 Virtual/Webinar – ISSA Thought Leadership Series: Is Your Organization Ready for Automation
2018
November 29th, 2018 Los Angeles, CA – Project Managers are Key to Business Resiliency – PMI Los Angeles
November 15th, 2018 Los Angeles, CA – Emcee and Panel Discussion: “Hacking the Boardroom” – Argyle IT & Security Leadership Forum
October 20th, 2018 Rosemead, CA – ISACA LA CRISC Training
September 20th, 2018 Virtual/Webinar – ISSA Thought Leadership Series: Eliminating Security Blind Spots in your AWS
April 27th, 2018 El Segundo, CA – ARMA GLA – Expressing Cyber Risk: A Survey of Public Company Disclosures
May 12th, 2018 Downtown Los Angeles, CA – ISACA LA CRISC Training
2017
October 27th, 2017 Ventura, CA – South Central Coast Region Cyber Symposium – Cybersecurity experts panel
October 26th, 2017 Woodland Hills, CA – WITI Los Angeles – Cybersecurity Panel
October 21st, 2017 Rosemead, CA – ISACA LA CRISC Training
May 18th, 2017 Los Angeles, CA – ISSA-LA Summit 9 – IT Security Bootcamp
April 11th, 2017 Los Angeles, CA –ISACA LA Spring Conference – Improving Cyber Security Decision Making by Reducing Bias
2016
October 21st, 2016 Los Angeles, CA – Year Up West LA College (WLAC) – Speaker Series – Cybersecurity Careers
September 13th, 2016 Los Angeles, CA – Landmark CIO Summit 2016 -Panelist BYOD: Building Your Own Defense Against Mobile Threats
May 19th, 2016 Los Angeles, CA – ISSA LA Summit 8 – Information Security Management Boot Camp for IT Professionals
May 5th, 2016 Los Angeles, CA – CIO Summit by Karlin Ventures – The Shifting Security Landscape for Enterprise
March 3rd, 2016 San Francisco, CA RSA 2016 – Tales from the 1st Security Hire (Security for Startups Panel)
March 1st, 2016 San Francisco, CA – Duo Security Summit – Panelist
February 24th, 2016 Los Angeles, CA OWASP February Security for Startups Panel
February 3rd, 2016 Burbank, CA – ISE® Private Dinner – Host Think Like a User, Protect Like a Pro: Applying User Behavior Analytics to Data Loss Prevention
2015
December 3, 2015 Los Angeles, CA – Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Summit – AWS Security
November 18, 2015 Culver City, CA – OWASP Los Angeles – Securing & Auditing AWS
November 10, 2015 Beverly Hills, CA – Q Connects – C-Level Tech Dinner – “IT Security: The Threat Landscape Shift & Protecting IP”; Panelist
October 10, 2015 Los Angeles, CA – ProVisors LA Attorneys Chapter – Information Governance / Practical Cyber Protection
September 1, 2015 Santa Clarity, CA – PMI North LA – Project Nirvana: Tactics to lead, close and move on
August 8, 2015 Santa Monica, CA Cloud Security Alliance – Los Angeles Chapter – Securing & Auditing AWS
June 5, 2015 Universal City, CA – ISSA 7 Summit – Information Security Management Boot Camp for IT Professionals
February 9, 2015 Santa Monica, CA CTO Mixers – 2015 The Year of Security
2014 and earlier
April 16, 2014 ISSA Los Angeles – Hacking Information Security Management
June 13, 2013 LinuxLA Meetup -Tech Regulations
October 9, 2012 IT Summit – Headlines and Headway
August 1, 2012 OWASP LA Defcon Recap
November 1, 2011 ISC2 SecureSDLC OWASP Top 10
March 1, 2010 GSAW Cybersecurity in the Ground System
June 24, 2009 OWASP Los Angles Information Warfare: Past, Present and Future
March 27, 2009 WRCCDC Keynote Speaker. Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC), Cal Poly Pomona
March 22, 2009 ISACA LA Spring Conference Information Warfare: Past, Present and Future. Los Angeles ISACA Spring Conference,
May 13, 2008 ISACA LA Spring Conference Web Services Security Landscape. Los Angeles ISACA Spring Conference
April 4, 2006 Browser password manager security – Carnegie Mellon. CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab (CUPS)
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