“After our (first) meeting last month, Matt Johansen and myself have decided to give IsleSec a continuation.

IsleSec builds on the tradition of popular CitySec meetings, such as NYSEC, BeanSec, etc. and it provides an informal place for people to hang out, have a bite, drink beer (or something else), and chat about security-related issues.

We invite everyone with an interest in information security, ranging from techies to security executives to join us. Yes, even security auditors are welcome Vendors can come too, but please do not use the meet-up as a place to sell your wares. If you want to car pool, or take the train out to the meeting with company, please drop a note on our general access email group.

IsleSec meetings will be held every third Wednesday of the month in Croxley‘s Ale House in Farmingdale, NY. Croxley’s is located next to the train station and is easily reachable by car from Nassau and Suffolk.

This month’s meeting will be on January 20, 2010. The meetings typically start when the first person shows up (somewhere between 6pm and 7pm) and continue until the last person leaves (somewhere between 10pm and 11pm). Sponsors are more than welcome to contact me to arrange how to give us free beer.”

For those of you unfamilar with CitySec meetups, they are informal meetups of local security professionals at whatever bar will tolearate us. It is a great way to meet others in the community and grow your professional network. To quote Chris Hoff while talking about BeanSec up in Boston: “Unlike other meetings, you will not be expected to pay dues, “join up”, present a zero-day exploit, or defend your dissertation to attend.” Show up, get some wings, drink some beer and add to your business card collection.

I wanted to write a quick post to see if there is any interest around to meet up to make sure I’m not sitting at a bar drinking alone. Feel free to post comments here or hop on the Google Group to express interest.

Judging by people’s location who are interested we can adjust the bar location as necessary. I vote we start at Croxley’s Ale House in Farmingdale. Following the model of other CitySec meetings we will start by meeting the third Wednesday of every month which works out perfectly because Croxley’s has a 10 cent wing special on Wednesdays.

So what this all comes down to is that the first IsleSec meetup will be at 6:00 PM on Novermber 18th at Croxley’s Ale House 190 Main St Farmingdale, NY 11735 (516) 293-7700. (Get Directions).

If you plan on coming please leave a comment or send out a message in the Google Group so that I know I should show up. (I’ll probably show up anyway just in case but it would be nice to know ahead of time.)