ISC2 Silicon Valley - June 2026 Chapter Meeting
📍 In-person meeting at Palo Alto Networks HQ — Santa Clara
🙏 This month's meeting is generously hosted and sponsored by Palo Alto Networks.
Join the ISC2 Silicon Valley Chapter for our June 2026 meeting. As AI agents move from experimentation into production, the security questions are shifting fast — from "how do we prompt safely?" to "how do we govern data, configurations, and infrastructure across the full AI lifecycle?" This month, we're doubling up with two speakers covering complementary angles: practical data security across LLMs and agentic systems, and the infrastructure discipline behind securing MCP-connected environments.
🎤 Opening Session | Security Metrics for the Board
Franklin Jackson, Advisor & Field CISO, World Wide Technology
About the Speaker
Franklin Jackson is a recognized industry Cyber Security authority and leader in digital transformation, with substantial experience in steering multiplatform enterprise security solutions. His background includes developing and managing Cyber Security as an enterprise-wide strategic issue in government, medical and financial sectors. More recently he and his team provided vCISO services, acting as trusted advisors for organizations looking for an Executive level resource. As an elite troubleshooter, he specializes in developing strategic roadmaps to ensure “business to security” alignment and compliance. His work-based research interests include Quantum Cryptography and designing private cloud based Cyber Ranges (he directed cyber security exercises with military and civilian agencies in Hawaii). He specializes in critical infrastructure, including NERC CIP and the cloud. Although technical in his skill base, Franklin now applies his expertise, experience and knowledge to data governance, risk, digital transformation and building business growth.
🎤 Featured Talk | Securing MCP: Infrastructure Discipline for the Agentic Era
Dr. Albert Heinle, CTO & Co-Founder, CoGuard
MCP and agentic AI don't create new infrastructure risks — they inherit and amplify decades of accumulated ones. This talk examines why configuration has become the effective control plane for AI agent behavior, and why securing agentic systems requires infrastructure discipline rather than better prompts.
Albert covers bounded autonomy through architecture, the loss of determinism as a security challenge, economic resource governance, and the emerging shift toward declarative agent interfaces — with practical guidance for teams building or securing MCP-connected environments.
About the Speaker
Dr. Albert Heinle is driven by a mission to combat the global surge of data breaches and misconfigurations. Albert co-founded CoGuard in 2020 and serves as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to CoGuard, he held development positions at FLIR Systems, Inc., Aeryon Labs, and Sortable. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.
📅 Event Details
📅 Date: June 9, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PT
📍 Format: In-person
🎓 Education: CPE-eligible
🏢 Venue Palo Alto Networks 3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Building 3, 2nd Floor — Multi-purpose Room 11 (SC3.2.445)
🅿️ Parking Parking is available in P1 South and in the lot in front of Building 2. A campus map will be shared with registrants.
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🎙️ Speaker Opportunities — Open Call
ISC2 Silicon Valley is booking sessions through Q4 2026, and we're opening the mic to the wider cybersecurity community. Not an ISC2 member? Doesn't matter. If you've got something worth sharing, we want you on our stage.
Hard-won lessons. Fresh research. War stories you can finally talk about. First-time speakers and seasoned presenters all welcome.
⏱️ Up to 40 minutes + Q&A
📍 In-person at our monthly meeting
🎓 CPE-eligible for attendees