ISSA Cowtown Chapter (Fort Worth area Chapter)

ISSA Alamo Chapter (San Antonio)

ISSA Capitol of Texas Chapter (Austin)

ISSA South Texas Chapter (Houston)

ISSA Texas Gulf Coast Chapter (Houston Clear Lake)

Links to other ISSA chapters

ISACA North Texas Chapter

Goals:	Promotion of advanced IT governance, control and assurance practices.
Meeting:	Monthly
Certification:	CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
Membership:	Information systems auditors, IS managers, IS professionals with audit and control responsibilities.
Dues:	Annual dues are $115 for membership to ISACA plus $30 for local chapter.

The North Texas Snort Users Group

Goals:

Dedicated to "spreading the gospel" of Snort, the Open Source, professional intrusion detection system designed for the serious security professional as well as the open source enthusiast and home user. We provide a place for professionals and Snort enthusiasts to meet (both in person and on-line) to discuss how to install, configure and use Snort, as well as other aspects of Information Security.

Meetings:

Meetings will be held the first Saturday of every month.

InfraGuard North Texas Chapter

Goals:	Protection of the national infrastructure by partnership between industry and government agencies.
Membership:	Corporations in the following critical infrastructures: government operations, emergency services, telecommunications, electrical energy, transportation, banking and finance, water supply systems, and gas/oil storage and delivery.
Meetings:	Quarterly

Southwest Chapter High Technology Crime Investigation Association

Goals:

Encourage, promote, aid, and effect the voluntary interchange of data, information, experience, and knowledge about methods, and processes among members, engaged in the investigation of computer related crime.

Membership:

Peace Officers, Investigators and Prosecuting Attorneysengaged in the investigation and/or prosecution of criminal activity associated with computers and/or advanced technologies. Each member shall be regularly employed by the Federal Government, State Government, Counties, and/or Municipal subdivisions of any state, or Management Level and Senior Staff Security Professionals in the regular employ of private business or industry in the various states, the primary duties of which, are the control and responsibility for security and/or investigation in computer or advanced technology environments, or by virtue of his/her position or interest can provide, or have a need for information and training in the areas of computer and/or advanced technologies.

NAISG DFW
Goals: To educate and be educated in infosec. To promote better security. To be a voice in our respective industries for stronger IT Security practices. To share job or opportunity leads. To become a support structure for each other.

Membership: Members include IT administrators, managers, law enforcement personnel, students, educators or anyone interested to learn how to protect their information systems. No formal security experience is required. People come to learn, share tips and tricks, and network with other professionals.

Meeting: Every 4^th Tuesday of the month

Mailing Lists on SecurityFocus.com
(Includes Security Jobs, Bugtraq, news, etc.)

InfoSec News
is a privately run, medium traffic list that caters to distribution of information security news articles. These articles will come from newspapers, magazines, on-line resources, and more.

McAfee Labs
With a global research footprint, McAfee Labs provides the most comprehensive Global Threat Intelligence in the industry. Backed by a portfolio of more than 400 patents and a network of millions of sensors spanning the Internet, McAfee Labs delivers unparalleled protection against both known and emerging threats via a complete suite of security products.

FIRST
FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) provides a forum for facilitating trusted interactions among incident response and security teams. Assistance for interactions is available on either a team to team basis (through introduction to teams) or by using the FIRST infrastructure to share information among all members in a secure way. The increased ability to communicate with peer entity teams allows for faster resolution of computer security incidents, regardless of their source, destination, or transit path.

ISACA
The ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) exists to assist IT governance, control and assurance stakeholders deal with IT management, IT risk and IT process, and their interaction with corporate governance, corporate management, corporate risks and corporate processes. ISACA does that by providing value through various services, such as research, standards, information, education, CISA certification, and professional advocacy. The Association helps IS audit, control and security professionals focus not only on IT, IT risks and security issues, but also on the relationship between IT and the business, business processes and business risks.

FedCIRC
FedCIRC  (The Federal Computer Incident Response Center) is the federal civilian agencies' trusted focal point for computer security incident reporting, prevention, and response. FedCIRC is part of the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD), a division of the Information Analysis and infrastructure Protection (IAIP) Directorate in the Department of Homeland Security.

(ISC)^2
The (ISC)² is an international organization dedicated to the certification of Information Systems Security professionals and practitioners. (ISC)² grants the Certified Information Systems Security Practitioner (CISSP) designation to information systems security practitioners. Candidates are required to pass a rigorous CISSP examination, have eight years of experience, and subscribe to the (ISC)² Code of Ethics.

SANS
SANS is a cooperative research and education organization through which more than 62,000 system administrators, security professionals, and network administrators share the lessons they are learning and find solutions for challenges they face. As a part of this effort, SANS offers a series of exceptional educational conferences featuring up to eight days of in-depth courses and multi-track technical conferences focusing on user experiences and problem solving. SANS also produces a series of cooperative research reports, electronic digests, posters of authoritative answers to current questions, and cooperatively-created software.

CERT
The CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) Coordination Center, studies Internet security vulnerabilities, provides incident response services to sites that have been the victims of attack, publishes a variety of security alerts, researches security and survivability in wide-area-networked computing, and develops information to help you improve security at your site.

ISSA North Texas Previous Presentations

Information Security Magazine

SC Magazine

CSO Magazine On-Line

Security Magazine

CIO Magazine, Security Section

Security Search

International Biometric Society