Charlotte ISSA July 23rd Monthly Meeting!
Join Charlotte ISSA for our July Monthly Meeting!
Agenda:
7:30 – 8:00 AM: Check-in, Networking, & Breakfast!
8:00 - 8:45AM: Val Vasquez, Semperis - "When the Bomb Is Ticking: Recovering Active Directory During a Cyberattack!"
8:45 - 9:30AM: Patrick Nord, ArchtypeSC
9:30 - 10:15AM: Torry Crass, Tanium - Ransome Where?
10:30 - 11:15AM: Evgeny Gervis, Safelogic - “The Time to Migrate to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is Now!”
Meeting Location: Microsoft Offices Charlotte, NC
Agenda:
7:30 – 8:00 AM: Check-in, Networking, & Breakfast!
8:00 - 8:45AM: Val Vasquez, Semperis - "When the Bomb Is Ticking: Recovering Active Directory During a Cyberattack!"
8:45 - 9:30AM: Patrick Nord, ArchtypeSC
9:30 - 10:15AM: Torry Crass, Tanium - Ransome Where?
10:30 - 11:15AM: Evgeny Gervis, Safelogic - “The Time to Migrate to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is Now!”
Meeting Location: Microsoft Offices Charlotte, NC
Location
Location:
Microsoft Corp.
8050 Microsoft Way, Charlotte, NC 28273
Building 2 (the building on the right, as you enter the campus)
Microsoft Corp.
8050 Microsoft Way, Charlotte, NC 28273
Building 2 (the building on the right, as you enter the campus)
Date & Time
July 23rd, 2025 7:30AM - 11:00AM
Speakers
Val Vasquez, Global VP of Pre-Sales - Semperis
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Bio: Val Vasquez (VP Technical Pre-Sales, Semperis) has a keen understanding of the challenges and demands of technology transformation and strives to eliminate technical barriers to success for organizations as they adopt cybersecurity solutions. Prior to his role with Semperis, Val worked as a principal solution architect and as an Exchange migration expert.
- Presentation: "When the Bomb Is Ticking: Recovering Active Directory During a Cyberattack!"
Patrick Nord, VP of Professional Services - ArchtypeSC
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Bio: Patrick Nord is a senior cybersecurity and IT executive (CISSP) with two decades of experience helping organizations—from startups to Fortune 500s—secure and transform their digital operations. As Vice President of Professional Services at Archetype SC, he leads multidisciplinary teams across cybersecurity, data, and development initiatives, with a proven track record of delivering strategic outcomes on complex, high-impact projects. Patrick specializes in aligning cybersecurity with business objectives, driving programs in risk management, vulnerability reduction, and AI-integrated security. He has advised U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and enterprise clients on building scalable, resilient defenses. A frequent speaker on cybersecurity, data strategy, and enterprise transformation, Patrick has presented at conferences including TechnoSecurity, AWS Public Sector Day, and Strata + Hadoop World. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to the IBM Cyber Campus initiative, helping academic and business communities build hands-on cyber education and innovation programs. Patrick is a co-holder of a U.S. patent for location-based analytics—and is rarely seen without a bow tie.
Presentation: TBA
Torry Crass, CISO - Tanium
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Bio: Torry Crass serves as an executive leader in cybersecurity with more than 25 years of information technology experience and with a strong career focus on cyber security for over 10 of those years. Torry is considered a subject matter expert in cybersecurity both in his professional roles as well as within the security community. He brings expertise at both the technical and leadership levels in IT operations, information security, privacy, compliance, and numerous other areas.
As a CISO, Torry brings vision, strategy, and partnership to create successful cybersecurity programs that work by helping to reduce risk and manage IT and information system assets in a way that allows the organization to be successful while continuing towards a better security posture. He has more than a decade of experience in global enterprise environments with continually increasing levels of responsibility that have included local and remote team leadership with global cross-team collaboration, program development, MA&D tasks, and strategic leadership.
Torry is actively involved in the cybersecurity community through service on several advisory boards, leadership of industry conferences, regularly conducting training and presentations, and attending a variety of security conferences such as ACI Jack Voltaic, SecureWorld, BSides, BlackHat, Defcon, and ShmooCon.
As a CISO, Torry brings vision, strategy, and partnership to create successful cybersecurity programs that work by helping to reduce risk and manage IT and information system assets in a way that allows the organization to be successful while continuing towards a better security posture. He has more than a decade of experience in global enterprise environments with continually increasing levels of responsibility that have included local and remote team leadership with global cross-team collaboration, program development, MA&D tasks, and strategic leadership.
Torry is actively involved in the cybersecurity community through service on several advisory boards, leadership of industry conferences, regularly conducting training and presentations, and attending a variety of security conferences such as ACI Jack Voltaic, SecureWorld, BSides, BlackHat, Defcon, and ShmooCon.
Presentation: "Ransom Where?"
Evgeny Gervis, CEO - Safelogic
Bio: Evgeny is CEO of SafeLogic, a premier cryptographic software company with products and managed services that enable organizations to accelerate and simplify adoption of FIPS 140 validated classical and post quantum cryptography. Prior to SafeLogic, Evgeny has been involved in software security for almost two decades, holding a range of technical to leadership roles at Synopsys’ Software Integrity Group (SIG), Cigital (acquired by Synopsys), and Secure Software (acquired by Fortify Software). Evgeny is deeply involved with NIST’s PQC Migration
project where he is an active industry collaborator and Risk Management and Prioritization Workstream lead. Evgeny holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from Georgetown University.
Presentation: "The Time to Migrate to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is Now!"
This talk will dive into post quantum cryptography and make the case for why organizations need to start migrating their use of public key cryptography to PQC now. We will cover the current landscape of PQC standards and their adoption in various protocols. This talk will recommend practical steps that organizations can take today to migrate to PQC in an agile and iterative manner to ensure higher degree of quantum resistance over time. These efforts will also serve to enhance crypto-agility and overall cryptographic posture management. Specific examples and use cases will be provided.
project where he is an active industry collaborator and Risk Management and Prioritization Workstream lead. Evgeny holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from Georgetown University.
Presentation: "The Time to Migrate to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is Now!"
This talk will dive into post quantum cryptography and make the case for why organizations need to start migrating their use of public key cryptography to PQC now. We will cover the current landscape of PQC standards and their adoption in various protocols. This talk will recommend practical steps that organizations can take today to migrate to PQC in an agile and iterative manner to ensure higher degree of quantum resistance over time. These efforts will also serve to enhance crypto-agility and overall cryptographic posture management. Specific examples and use cases will be provided.