Our History

Our story is simple. We are a group of information security professionals and practitioners that are interested in learning about information security. Some of us have acquired an ISC2 certification and while we also want to earn CPEs, we don’t want to simply maintain our certifications or just “get by”.

Our Mission

We want to learn. We share a passion for learning about all things related to information security which compels us to be information security advocates and better professionals and practitioners. If you are interested in acquiring an information security related certification then our chapter is a place where you can learn.

We want to lead. We want to be leaders, not just in our respective teams or within our respective companies, but in our industry, community, and to the next generations. We want to be a part of something bigger and something important.

We want to unlock. What sets our chapter apart from local security groups is the passion, knowledge, and leadership that our membership brings to the table. We offer real-world solutions to real-world security issues by unlocking and sharing the knowledge and experience of our membership’s diverse expertise and wisdom.

We began as a few security-minded friends that worked together. We decided to quit talking about launching a local chapter or worse yet, wait around for someone else to do it for us. We stepped up and took the initiative. We have been growing as others hear about our group and join with us.

Our Leadership

President: Eric Agan

Vice President: Brian Sudis

Brian C. Sudis, CISSP, has over 40 years experience in technology and Cybersecurity. He has served in fractional CIO, CTO, and CISO roles, and as the Director of IT for various global SaaS companies. With broad industry experience across Defense, Financial, Health Care, Telecommunications, Mining, Technology, Manufacturing, Insurance and Clinical Laboratory Technology, he brings unique insights into leadership and team building through the use of people, processes, and technologies. Brian holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certificate from ISC2 and is a current member of ISSA and the Cloud Security Alliance. Brian has also held positions in athletics at both the high school and collegiate and semi-pro level as a basketball coach. He is also a “cold war vet” having spent 9 years in the U.S. Navy as a Cryptologic Technician (Communications).

Secretary: Les Davis

Treasurer: Lorne Cammack

Lorne is an accomplished Information Security professional with over 15 years of experience in public service, specializing in system administration, security auditing, and risk management. He currently holds the CISSP and SSCP certifications from ISC2 as well as other security certifications, and has earned a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in Information Assurance. In his spare time Lorne focuses on family, sports, and computers, with those things usually overlapping with his kids playing sports and his family yelling at him because the Wi-Fi is once again down as he was messing with the network configurations.

Membership Director: Justin Carter

Justin has been active in the Cybersecurity industry since 2013. Possessing a Bachelors Degree in Information Assurance, he has had experience in a variety of roles including but not limited to: Helpdesk, Incident Response, Network Security Architecture, and Organizational Security Architecture. In his spare time, he works to establish a facility for adults with special needs, is active in development communities, works to reverse-engineer hardware and software, and also studies Karate at AKKA Karate USA based out of Independence, MO, where he currently holds a Purple Belt.

Advisory Board:

Derin Beechner

Derin is a security evangelist. He has a passion for all things related to information security and for improving the world. He enjoys speaking and writing about the importance of information security in our every-day lives. Improve your password, protect your information. Protect your identity. Be social, but be careful. Derin is a life-long learner who hungers to learn new things, to improve, have new experiences and be stretched as an individual-personally as well as professionally. He enjoys mentoring as well as being mentored and becoming a better leader. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” He is also a geek. He is in front of a screen all day long (three actually) and when he leaves work he jumps on his Android phone or iPad. When he is relaxing at home he has a tablet in hand and is surfing, reading articles, writing, blogging and helping manage websites. Finally, Derin is a servant leader. He serves as a Board Member of the local ISC2 KC chapter. 

“I’m learning as much as I can and am greatly enjoying the journey.”

Joel Glover

Bill Guyer

Bill has nearly thirty years of experience in IT with an emphasis on security and compliance.  He holds multiple certifications including CISSP, PMP, and ITIL.  He is a process driven innovator who sees his role as bringing order to chaos in a company’s technology. When not working, Bill likes to spend time with his family, build and play guitars, and utilize 3D printing to support his many other hobbies.

Steve Lundberg

Steve is currently an InfoSec Engineer with over 9 years of experience in IT, the last two specializing in security platform design and integration for a large corporation. He achieved a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from WGU and holds several certifications, including SSCP, CCSP, ITIL Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Security Engineer and CompTIA Network Security Professional. He is a continual learner and takes a thorough approach to any task. Outside of work, Steve enjoys traveling, discovering new coffee shops and participating in Church or community driven events.

Stephen “Doug” Williams

Doug has been active in the Cybersecurity industry since 2007 but was involved in military and is a retired Army Signal Officer. He has secured environments for the US Army and NATO, served as a Federal Contractor for a number of government agencies, Tier One Telecommunications Service provider, MSSP, privately held businesses, and small business. He was involved with Network Development of security products with Sprint and was involved in over 7 US patents. He possesses a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics, and a Master’s Business Administration with emphasis in Computer Resource and Information Management, he has had experience in a variety of roles including but not limited to: Tactical Telecommunications officer, Division G7 Information Operations, Emergency Operations Officer for DHS-NCIC, Cyberseciruity Architect, MSSP SIEM Engineering Manager, Network Security Architecture, Organizational Security Architecture and Application Security. He holds his CISSP, DevSecOps Foundations, CSA-CCSK, In his spare time, he provides IT Tech support to a local church, loves restoring old motorcycles and is active with his 4 grandchildren.