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January 9, 2025 – Member meeting: Non Human Identity (NHI) – Astrix; Annual Board Elections

Craig Porter

Registration required: January 9, 2025 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm Pacific Time

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Session One: Securing Non-Human Identities

Summary:  The rapid growth of non-human identities (NHIs) like APIs, tokens, and service accounts has created a vast and underestimated attack surface. This session exposes the hidden risks of NHIs, revealing how attackers exploit them to escalate privileges, move laterally, and launch supply chain attacks. Attendees will gain insight into the role of NHIs in modern infrastructure, witness a live hacking demonstration of NHI exploitation, and leave equipped with actionable strategies to secure NHIs and mitigate risks effectively.

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Michael Silva is a technology leader with 17+ years of experience.  Presently, Michael is the Director of Solution Engineering with Astrix Security, the pioneers of non-human identity security.   Using the combined expertise of technical and customer facing roles, Michael has developed the ability to relate to customers, understand their pain points, and help define a strategy that will map to successful execution of business requirements.

Before joining Astrix, Michael has been part of taking multiple start-ups from their infancy to acquisition.  Most recently he was the Technical Director for a CNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platform) called Lightspin, that was acquired by Cisco. At Lightspin, Michael designed the technical go-to-market strategy, developed strategic partnerships, and helped grow the business from its inception into the U.S. market.  Michael has led a variety of teams from customer facing roles at Nutanix and Progress Software (formerly Chef) to technical teams at Cisco and various managed service providers. His knowledge is deeply rooted in public cloud security across all major cloud service providers as well as Kubernetes security.

Aside from professional experience, Michael holds many professional and specialty certifications from AWS, GCP, SANS, and Nutanix, and is a veteran of the U.S. Marine startups in the realms of Cybersecurity, AI/ML, Fintech, and Climate tech.

As the pioneers of NHI security, we’ve helped leading enterprises extend IAM and threat detection and response to NHIs since 2021. Our customers can safely leverage GenAI, third-party apps, no-code platforms, and internal integrations without compromising security.

Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are the building blocks of automation and integration. They’re also organizations’ weakest security link – ungoverned, over-permissive, and with non-expiring access to critical systems

Session Two: Annual Elections

Voting opens at 7:00 PM on January 9, 2025, and closes at 8:30 PM on January 9. Only ISC2 East Bay Members present at the annual meeting are eligible to vote.

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