Members & Affiliates

The Upper Midwest Security Alliance presents Secure360°, bringing together the resources of individual professional associations who have formed an alliance to better serve their membership, supplier partners and the general public. Please visit our member associations and affiliates for more information on their areas of expertise.

BCPA - Business Continuity Planners Association
www.bcpa.org/

Center for Strategic IT and Security (CSITS)
www.strategicit.org/

MN-ISACA - Minnesota Chapter of ISACA
www.mnisaca.org/

MN-ISSA - Minnesota Chapter of Information Systems Security Association
www.mn-issa.org/

Affiliates for the 2008 conference:

Infragard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States. At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector. Their goal is to improve and extend information sharing between private industry and the government, particularly the FBI, when it comes to critical national infrastructures.
www.infragard.net

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open community dedicated to enabling organizations to develop, purchase, and maintain applications that can be trusted. All of the OWASP tools, documents, forums, and chapters are free and open to anyone interested in improving application security. They advocate approaching application security as a people, process, and technology problem because the most effective approaches to application security include improvements in all of these areas.
www.owasp.org/index.php/Minneapolis_St_Paul

Twin Cities Privacy Network is the primary association of privacy professionals in the Twin Cities. The group is comprised of corporate leaders and practitioners from legal, compliance, audit, IT, information security, and other departments charged with the task of protecting their organizations' personally identifiable information.
www.twincitiesprivacy.com/about.htm

Historically, the members and affiliates of UMSA have held individual conference and trade shows tailored to their specific area of expertise. The alliance offers conference attendees a full spectrum of security resources in a single conference and trade show event:

• Information security
• Physical security
• Information systems forensics
• Audit and control systems
• Continuity planning
• Resource management

UMSA INFORMATION

Organizations interested in information on becoming a member or affiliate of UMSA, please contact members@secure360.org.