South Florida ISSA

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Join SFISSA on Thursday 16 April 2026 for our monthly meeting at The Knights Auditorium at in Carl DeSantis Building (Room 1124).

Speaker 1 : Johanns Quiroz

Johanns Quiroz is a seasoned cybersecurity and technology professional with over two decades of experience helping organizations design, secure, and scale modern digital environments. Currently serving as a Sr. Sales Engineer at , Johanns supports customers across the Southeast, LATAM, and Caribbean, where he focuses on application and API security, pre-sales strategy, and partner enablement. Prior to Wallarm, he held senior technical sales and engineering roles at Horizon3.ai, where he specialized in offensive security and helping organizations proactively identify and mitigate risk. Johanns also brings deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure, having spent over 20 years as a solutions architect designing complex environments across storage, virtualization, and cloud technologies. Known for his consultative approach and ability to bridge business and technical stakeholders, Johanns is passionate about helping organizations stay ahead of evolving cyber threats while enabling innovation and growth.

Talk title: Business Logic Abuse: Technology agnostic mapping of attack types

Abstract: OWASP's technology specific top 10 lists have provided a ton of value, but it's time for a different approach to business logic abuse. The rise of APIs and complex business logic attacks requires a new taxonomy that isn't tied to a specific technology. In this talk we'll explore the newly published Business Logic Abuse Top 10 list, including the methodology behind it.

Speaker 2 : Christian Troutner

Speaker 2 bio : Senior Lead, Attack Surface Management

Talk title: Vibe coding & Security: Challenges, Lessons Learned, and the future

Abstract:

Vibe Coding: shaping AI tone and persona to drive engagement and brand fit. Briefly covers practical uses, common mistakes with concrete lessons, and security risks like accidental data exposure, prompt leaks, hallucination and simple mitigations: access controls, prompt hygiene, monitoring, and incident plans.

Our second speaker tonight will be . Team Lead Systems Engineering at with a talk about "Building Security That Scales".

Whether you're a student, practitioner, leader, or simply passionate about cybersecurity, this community is for you and we'd love to have you join us.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there! And dont forget to stick around for our 8 PM happy hour.


Miami Dade College West Campus
Bldg.1, Floor 2, Rm.1245

The next South Florida ISSA meeting will be held on march 19, at Miami Dade College and we're excited to welcome speaker Dr. Emilio J. Del Riego, Ed.D, US CISO & VP of Information Security at TelevisaUnivision.

Dr. Del Riego will be sharing insights on "Managing for Value in the Cybersecurity Organization" a conversation about how cybersecurity leaders can align security initiatives with business value, strategy, and measurable impact.

Whether you're a student, practitioner, leader, or simply passionate about cybersecurity, this community is for you and we'd love to have you join us.

A special thank you to our meeting sponsor Fortinet for supporting the South Florida cybersecurity community.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there! And dont forget to stick around for our 8 PM happy hour.

Registration Link: https://Inkd.in/e5Dd2FPb