SecureWorld Charlotte 2026

AccessIT Group is your partner in cybersecurity. Our talented team of security experts deliver customized solutions designed to protect your systems and information from increasing security threats. From design and implementation to cybersecurity compliance and training, we provide a single point of contact for all your security needs.

AccessIT Group seeks to differentiate itself by offering a higher level of expertise from engineers and sales staff, all of whose knowledge was derived from real life enterprise deployments. These values have helped AccessIT Group grow to become the first-choice cyber security provider in our region. Today, AccessIT Group maintains sales and service offices in King of Prussia, PA, Mountain Lakes, NJ, New York, NY, Columbia, MD, and Boston, MA.

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure digital experiences. With the most distributed compute platform—cloud to edge—customers can build modern apps while keeping experiences closer to users and threats farther away. Learn about Akamai’s security, compute, and delivery solutions at akamai.com.

Arctic Wolf Networks provides SOC-as-a-service that is redefining the economics of security. The AWN CyberSOC™ service is anchored by Concierge Security™ teams and includes 24×7 monitoring, custom alerting, and incident investigation and response. There is no hardware or software to purchase, and the end-to-end service includes a proprietary cloud-based SIEM, threat intelligence subscriptions and all the expertise and tools required. For more information about Arctic Wolf, visit  https://www.arcticwolf.com.

Black Duck® offers the most comprehensive, powerful, and trusted portfolio of application security solutions in the industry. We have an unmatched track record of helping organizations around the world secure their software quickly, integrate security efficiently in their development environments, and safely innovate with new technologies. As the recognized leaders, experts, and innovators in software security, Black Duck has everything you need to build trust in your software. Learn more at www.blackduck.com.

Canary Trap is a recognized industry leader in offensive security, security advisory and assessment services. Founded by ethical hackers and certified security experts who share in the common goal of protecting organizations from becoming a victim of the next cyber-attack.

Canary Trap combines human expertise with sophisticated tools and, where appropriate, threat intelligence to ensure a thorough, in-depth approach to all security testing and assessments.

Chainguard Images provide the building blocks for a secure software supply chain. Leverage container images that have cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, SLSA provenance, and more to help meet compliance and prevent supply chain attacks.

We are a growing organization, with a goal to help shape the Charlotte area’s IT groups to better deliver value to our respective companies. As our profession in technology becomes more immersive and the speed of change increases, our lives both personally and professionally require a commitment to lifelong education and networking. We offer numerous ways to connect, from our peer leadership breakfast meetings, to yearly outings, and other evening networking and educational events. Our Purpose is to facilitate various opportunities to Meet Learn and Share.

The Charlotte Metro ISC2 chapter is a 501c3 non-profit organization, whose mission is to advance information security in the local communities throughout the Charlotte Metro area. We provide our members and other security professionals with the opportunity to share knowledge, grow professionally, educate others, and collaborate. We are committed to engaging in public service activities and outreach to advance cybersecurity awareness in the broader community.

The Charlotte ISSA chapter is committed to providing the Information Security professionals of Charlotte opportunities to grow both technically and professionally through training, meetings and summits.

Check Point Software Technologies is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally. Its solutions protect customers from 5th generation cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware, and other types of attacks. Our solutions offer multilevel security architecture, “Infinity” Total Protection with Gen V advanced threat prevention.

Clarity Security makes identity governance autonomous, intelligent, and effortless. Powered by attribute-based access control, we automate user access reviews and every aspect of identity lifecycle management—saving time, cutting cost, reducing risk, and turning IT into a business enabler.

Concentric AI delivers data risk assessment, monitoring, and protection for corporate data.

Delinea is a leading provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions that make security seamless for the modern, hybrid enterprise. Our solutions empower organizations to secure critical data, devices, code, and cloud infrastructure to help reduce risk, ensure compliance, and simplify security. Delinea removes complexity and defines the boundaries of access for thousands of customers worldwide. Our customers range from small businesses to the world’s largest financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and critical infrastructure companies.

Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader that adds intelligence to every IT and security stack. The leader in Next-gen SIEM and XDR, Exabeam is reinventing the way security teams use analytics and automation to solve Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response (TDIR), from common security threats to the most critical that are difficult to identify. Exabeam offers a comprehensive cloud-delivered solution that leverages machine learning and automation using a prescriptive, outcomes-based approach to TDIR. We design and build products to help security teams detect external threats, compromised users and malicious adversaries, minimize false positives and best protect their organizations.

Expel provides transparent managed security, on-prem and in the cloud. It’s the antidote for companies trapped in failed relationships with their managed security service provider (MSSP) and those looking to avoid the frustration of working with one in the first place. To learn more, go to https://www.expel.io.

Harmonic Security lets your teams adopt AI tools safely by protecting sensitive data in real time with minimal effort. It gives you full control and stops leaks so your teams can innovate confidently.

Recognized as an RSA Innovation Sandbox finalist in 2024, Harmonic Security redefines data protection for the GenAI era.

Our aim is to sponsor local educational seminars and workshops, conduct regular chapter meetings, and help to further promote and elevate the visibility of the IS audit, control and security profession throughout the region.

Infoblox unites networking and security to deliver unmatched performance and protection for a world that never stops. By providing real-time visibility and control over who and what connects to the network, we use intelligent DNS and user context to stop threats other solutions will miss, enabling organizations to build safer, more resilient environments. We’re continually supporting more than 13,000 customers—including 92 of Fortune 100 companies, as well as emerging innovators—by building the brightest, most diverse teams and by thoughtfully engineering intelligent networking and security solutions for an increasingly distributed world.

What if the enterprise had complete control over the browser? What would it mean for security, for productivity, for work itself? Introducing Island, the Enterprise Browser—the ideal enterprise workplace, where work flows freely while remaining fundamentally secure. With the core needs of the enterprise naturally embedded in the browser itself, Island gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile, while delivering the same smooth Chromium-based browser experience users expect. Led by experienced leaders in enterprise security and browser technology and backed by leading venture funds—Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts and Stripes Capital—Island is redefining the future of work for some of the largest, most respected enterprises in the world.

Knightz Group is a boutique cybersecurity firm, blending enterprise-level expertise with nimble, client-first execution. We provide and manage compliance driven, operationally focused solutions for complex environments.

Our vision is to meet IT professionals within our Local IT community for learning, sharing, community outreach, leadership and professional growth. We are a 501c4 Non-Profit entity, and donate a significant portion of our sponsorship dollars to the E2D organization, who is helping to eliminating the digital divide!

LightBeam.ai, the zero trust data protection pioneer, converges and simplifies data security, privacy, and AI governance, so businesses can accelerate their growth in new markets with speed and confidence. Leveraging generative AI as a foundational technology, LightBeam ties together sensitive data cataloging, control, and compliance across structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data applications providing 360-visibility, risk remediation, and compliance with PCI, GLBA, GDPR, HIPAA among other regulations. Continuous monitoring with full data residency ensures ultimate zero-trust data protection. LightBeam is on a mission to create a secure privacy-first world.

Logically is a leading national managed security and IT solution provider that helps organizations secure and support their businesses today, solve for tomorrow, and strategize for the future with cyber-first solutions. Our team of experts, including cybersecurity, engineering, networking, and cloud specialists, collaborate with customers to implement solutions that protect their assets, reduce risk, and optimize performance, end to end. Since 1999, we have made long-term relationships, customer service excellence, and purposeful innovation guiding principles to ensure customers have a trusted advisor at their side, helping them focus on their business, not the technology behind it.

Netskope is a leader in modern security, networking, and analytics for the cloud and AI era. The unique architecture of its Netskope One platform enables real-time, context-based security for people, devices, and data wherever they go, and optimizes network performance—without trade-offs or sacrifices. Thousands of customers and partners trust the Netskope One platform, its patented Zero Trust Engine, and its powerful NewEdge Network to reduce risk, simplify converged infrastructure, and provide full visibility and control over cloud, AI, SaaS, web, and private application activity.

Netwrix makes data security easy. Since 2006, Netwrix solutions have been simplifying the lives of security professionals by enabling them to identify and protect sensitive data to reduce the risk of a breach, and to detect, respond to and recover from attacks, limiting their impact.
More than 13,000 organizations worldwide rely on Netwrix solutions to strengthen their security and compliance posture across all three primary attack vectors: data, identity and infrastructure.

Nudge Security is a SaaS security company offering a platform to manage and secure an organization’s SaaS applications. The platform provides visibility and governance over SaaS and cloud assets, including shadow IT, and quickly discovers SaaS accounts via read-only API access. It also delivers vendor security profiles, compliance attestations, and alerts for SaaS supply chain breaches.

Optiv is a security solutions integrator delivering end-to-end cybersecurity solutions that help clients maximize and communicate the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs. Optiv starts with core requirement of every enterprise—risk mitigation—and builds out from there with strategy, infrastructure rationalization, operations optimization, and ongoing measurement. Learn more at https://www.optiv.com.

Ovalix empowers organizations to confidently embrace AI technology by mitigating associated risks such as data leakage, malicious prompts, shadow AI, and regulatory non-compliance across AI applications ranging from basic LLMs to sophisticated AI Agents. By ensuring robust security, maintaining regulatory integrity, and preventing data breaches, Ovalix enables organizations to unlock the transformative power of AI with peace of mind.

Phish Club is a dynamic and inclusive community dedicated to ‘phishing’ cybersecurity professionals into a world of networking and learning. We provide a platform for engaging discussions, knowledge sharing, and valuable networking opportunities in the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity. Our goal is to foster connections, offer insights, and promote learning in a supportive environment.

Let’s navigate the cyber seas together, ‘phishing’ for valuable connections and knowledge. Join Phish Club and embark on an exciting journey in the world of cybersecurity!

Ping Identity delivers intelligent identity solutions for the enterprise. We enable companies to achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security and more personalized, streamlined user experiences.

SecPod is a leading cybersecurity technology company committed to preventing cyberattacks through proactive security. Its mission is to secure computing infrastructure by enabling preventive security posture.
At the core of SecPod’s offerings is the Saner Platform – a suite of solutions that help organizations establish a strong security posture to preemptively block cyber threats. The platform includes:
• Saner Cloud – An AI-fortified Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that delivers continuous visibility, security compliance, and risk mitigation for cloud environments.
• Saner CVEM – A Continuous Vulnerability and Exposure Management (CVEM) solution that delivers continuous visibility, identifies, assesses, and remediates vulnerabilities across enterprise devices and network infrastructure.

With its suite of cutting-edge and comprehensive solutions, SecPod empowers organizations to stay ahead of evolving threats and build a stronger, more resilient security framework.

SecurityScorecard helps enterprises gain operational command of their security posture and the security posture of their third-parties through continuous, non-intrusive monitoring. SecurityScorecard’s proprietary SaaS platform offers an unmatched breadth and depth of critical data points including a broad range of risk categories such as Application Security, Malware, Patching Cadence, Network Security, Hacker Chatter, Social Engineering, and Leaked Information.

Security Journey offers robust application security education tools to help developers and the entire SDLC team recognize and understand vulnerabilities and threats and proactively mitigate these risks. The knowledge learners acquire in our programs goes beyond helping learners code more securely–it turns everyone in the SDLC into security champions.

Our platform takes a unique level approach, transitioning learners from security basics to language-specific knowledge to the experiential learning required to become security champions. With lessons offered in multiple formats, including text, video, and hands-on sandbox environments, there is a modality that resonates with every learning style. Organizations with teams of security champions develop a security-first mindset that allows them to deliver safer, more secure applications.

For security teams charged with defending hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Semperis ensures the integrity and availability of critical enterprise directory services at every step in the cyber kill chain and cuts recovery time by 90%. Purpose-built for securing hybrid Active Directory environments, Semperis’ patented technology protects more than 50 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors. The world’s leading organizations trust Semperis to spot directory vulnerabilities, intercept cyberattacks in progress, and quickly recover from ransomware and other data integrity emergencies.

As part of its mission is to be a force for good, Semperis offers a variety of cyber community resources, including the award-winning Hybrid Identity Protection (HIP) Conference, HIP Podcast and free identity security tools Purple Knight and Forest Druid.

The Chapter strives to strengthen professional communications among members who direct the application of information technology in private and pubic organizations. Chapter activities include:

• Meeting to share innovative ideas and real world experiences which address enterprise information needs. We have excellent speakers both from our membership, and bring in industry executives and subject matter experts from many sources.
• Providing presentations by leading national information-management professionals and executives who benefit from management-information systems.
• Challenging our comfort levels by exchanging ideas with peers and business counterparts.
• Being a resource for each other, and personal networking.

Splunk helps build a safer and more resilient digital world. Organizations trust Splunk to prevent security, infrastructure and application incidents from becoming major issues, absorb shocks from digital disruptions and accelerate digital transformation.

SpyCloud is the leader in account takeover (ATO) prevention, protecting billions of consumer and employee accounts worldwide. Our award-winning solutions proactively defeat fraud attempts and disrupt the criminals’ ability to profit from stolen information. Learn more & check your exposure at spycloud.com.

Sublime is the new standard for email security. Not just another black box, our AI-powered detection engine detects and prevents email attacks, so security teams can spend less time on email-originated incidents.

Sumo Logic was founded in 2010 by experts in log management, scalable systems, big data, and security. Today, our purpose-built, cloud-native service analyzes more than 100 petabytes of data, more than 16 million searches, and delivers 10s of millions of insights daily – positioning Sumo among the most powerful machine data analytics services in the world.

Structured is an award-winning solution provider delivering secure, cloud-connected digital infrastructure. For nearly 30 years, we’ve helped clients through all phases of digital transformation by securely bridging people, business and technology.

Tenable®, Inc. is the Cyber Exposure company. Over 27,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus®, Tenable extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver the world’s first platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform. Tenable customers include more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, more than 25 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies. Learn more at www.tenable.com.

Tevora is an enterprise consulting firm specializing in information assurance, governance and compliance services and solutions. We work with some of the world’s leading companies, institutions and governments to ensure the safety of their information and their compliance with applicable regulations. With a distinctive combination of proven products and services, Tevora aids enterprises in protecting their most important assets from external and internal threats. For more information visit https://www.tevora.com.com/.

Torq is your security product’s favorite security product. Torq Hyperautomation unifies and automates the entire security infrastructure to deliver unparalleled protection and productivity.

Trinity Cyber is an international cybersecurity firm that invents and operates innovative solutions to the most difficult cybersecurity challenges. The company’s products and services replace multiple market segments in the traditional cybersecurity market, with customers in over a dozen of the largest market verticals. The company’s founders, management team, and technologists are all award-winning, recognized leaders in their field—and their tech has revolutionized network security.

Veeam provides a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing data. Veeam has 400,000+ customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 69% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s 100% channel ecosystem includes global partners, as well as HPE, NetApp, Cisco and Lenovo as exclusive resellers, and boasts more than 35K transacting partners worldwide.

With offices in more than 30 countries and over 200 industry awards, Veeam is unquestionably the leader in data protection across all environments. In fact, Veeam has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions. Not only does this mark the sixth consecutive time Gartner has recognized Veeam as a Magic Quadrant Leader, but it is the third consecutive year Veeam is positioned highest overall in ability to execute.

The Zafran Threat Exposure Management Platform is the first and only consolidated platform that integrates with your security tools to reveal, remediate, and mitigate the risk of exposures across your entire infrastructure. Zafran uses an agentless approach to reveal what is truly exploitable, while reducing manual prioritization and remediation through automated response workflows.