Building Houston Cyber Community with Michael Farnum | CYBR.SEC.CON Founder

Join us for an insightful conversation with Michael Farnum, founder of CYBR.SEC.CON (previously HOU.SEC.CON), as we explore cybersecurity, technology events, community building, artificial intelligence, career development, and Houston’s growing tech ecosystem. With over 30 years of experience in IT and cybersecurity, Michael shares his journey building cybersecurity communities, organizing conferences, securing venues and funding, and creating opportunities through education, scholarships, and networking. We also discuss the evolving tech job market, university education, AI-powered event promotion, AI governance, regulation, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). For cybersecurity professionals, aspiring technologists, entrepreneurs, and technology community builders, this episode offers insights into the people, ideas, and connections shaping the industry. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Cybersecurity Training with Emage Tech We’re partnering with Emage Tech to provide cybersecurity courses and practical tech training across Cloud, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, and AI. Get 5% off eligible courses with discount code HQPROOF. Explore courses: https://emagetech.io/training Discount code: HQPROOF ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Stay Connected with Hacker Proof HQ Join our newsletter for updates on upcoming events, podcast episodes, and services. https://www.hackerproofhq.com/blog ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Build with Jotform Get 50% off Jotform annual plans using our partner link. https://www.jotform.com/?partner=hackerproofhq Jotform is a no-code platform that helps builders launch forms, apps, and workflows. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Is Your Business Secure and SOC 2 Ready? Protect your business, strengthen your systems, and prepare for compliance with expert-led cybersecurity solutions. Start with a Free SOC 2 Readiness Assessment: https://www.hackerproofhq.com/soc2-readiness-assessment ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Explore Hacker Proof HQ Services We help businesses secure, scale, and stay compliant through: • Security Assessment & Compliance • Fractional CISO / Advisory • AI-Powered Security Agent Explore our services: https://www.hackerproofhq.com/#hphq-services ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Book a Free Consultation https://www.hackerproofhq.com/#book-consultation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with Hacker Proof HQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hackerproofhq TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hacker.proof X (Twitter): https://x.com/hackerproofhq LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackerproofhq/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Meet Our Team Femi | Video Editor https://www.instagram.com/femiodey/ Charity | Social Media Manager https://www.instagram.com/charity.okoloeze David Ewele | Digital Strategy https://www.instagram.com/witty_welz ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Inquiries and Suggestions Email: [email protected] Support Hacker Proof HQ Support our work and help us continue building cybersecurity awareness and community. Donate here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/6fbd820c-fbca-4dc7-9efb-353a7d33f9eb/donation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enjoyed this episode? Follow or subscribe to Hacker Proof HQ for more conversations about cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, technology careers, innovation, and the people building the tech community. #Cybersecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #HoustonTech #TechCommunity #TechEvents