June 10, 2019
Meeting Minutes
President Leland Malchow rang the bell and called the meeting to order. Rick Lowe gave the pledge and invocation. President Leland welcomed two special visiting Rotarians. Daps is the President Elect of his club in Ghana and he is visiting his very first club in the US. Leland and Daps exchanged club flags. Also, Past District Governor, Audley Knight, from Montego Bay, Jamaica joined us today. Thanks to our inside challenger, Sonny Tucker and the outside challenger, Matt Guzman, Audi Sales Manager, the club raised $189.79 for CART at our last meeting. This week the inside challenger is Stacy Tallent and our outside challenger is Health Center Credit Union. Richard Rogers gave the Sunshine Report.
Announcements:
- President Leland reported that we are joining with the Augusta West Rotary Club and collaborating with MAP International to bring medicine to St. Vincent’s Clinic. Anyone interested in participating this Thursday should contact Leland.
- Our next meeting on June 17 will be the year-end review and distribution of the Paul Harris Fellow and other club awards. Please make every effort to attend.
- The June 24 meeting will include the Passing of the Gavel ceremony. Please join us as we thank all prior club Presidents and welcome our new officers for the 2019-2020 Rotary year.
Program:
President Leland called on Erick Montgomery to introduce our guest speaker, Special Agent Steve Foster with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. SA Foster has been with the GBI for over 30 years and has been assigned to Augusta since 1995. In 2018, he was appointed Special Agent In Charge of the Cyber Crime Center.
He explained the growing need for cyber security and the ever-increasing crimes related to computers, phones, emails, faxes and any device that is tied to a computer. SA Foster shared that over 92% of cyber crimes start with emails. Phishing (targeting) and Spoofing (account takeover) are both on the rise and it will take a full-scale effort to fight against these attacks.
Businesses must train their employees frequently on the latest cyber crime techniques and teach them to how to spot phishing emails looking for account information or access. They must also scrutinize all emails to make sure they are coming from the true owner of the email. This is especially true when using an email as authorization to process a transaction or payment.
Ransomware events appear to be declining with only about 100 per year, however, the invention of cryptocurrency has led to higher per incident losses. SA Foster engaged the club in a robust question and answer session following his presentation.
Following the presentation, President Leland led us in reciting the four-way test and then adjourned the meeting.
Our next meeting will be June 17 and President Leland will present his year-end review.
Easy links to pages on our website
Rotary schedule of meeting dates and speakers
Member Proposal Form
Online directory - Find a member or update your information
Bulletins - Weekly bulletins from 2014-current
CART
CART buckets
Inside Challenger: Stacy Tallent
Outside Challenger: HCCU
Total
$108.46
$108.46
$108.46
$325.88
Guests
Guest
Steve Foster
Guest Of
Guest Speaker
Richmond Academy Interact Club
Westminster Interact Club
Augusta Tech Rotaract Club
Visiting Rotarians
Name
Audley Knight
Club
Rotary Assistant Past District Governor - Montego Bay East DAPS - Ghana
Meeting Makeup
Wes Brown 6-10-19 On Line Make UP
Brett Montroy 6-10-19 Rotary Board of Directors Meeting
Ed Presnell 6-10-19 Rotary Board of Directors Meeting
The following will receive a make up for attending the Rotary Board of Directors meeting held on Tuesday, June 11 at President Leland Malchow's home:
Leland Malchow
Ed Presnell
Scott Williams
Brett Montroy
Dustin Young
Faye Hargrove
Kevin Grogan
Absentees
Forester Adams
Susan Jernigan
Stacie Adkins
Judy Kaye
Erin Armstrong
Brooks Keel
Clay Bednarz
Russell Keen
Tony Bernados
Zach Kelehear
Shell Berry
Scott Kelly
Barclay Bishop
Mahendra Mandawat
Steve Boler
Robetta McKenzie
Mac Bowman
Linda McKnight
Conley Braun
Travis McNeal
Dave Brendza
Sam Meller
Carl Brown
Ian Mercier
Wes Brown
Brett Montroy
David Bullington
Betts Murdison
Nate Cartwright
Anne C. Murray
Gretchan Caughman
heri Osburn
Tom Clark
Natalie Paine
Len Collins
Sue Parr
Patrick Cullinan
Jeff Partl
Tom Denlinger
Jonathan Powell
Rob Dennis
Ed Presnell
John Donaldson
Angela Pringle
Ashlee Duran
Daniel Rhodes
Bob Evans
John Sebby
Susan Everitt
Stan Shepherd
Jeff Flowers
John Snider
Fran Forehand
Jeff Spears
Jeff Flowers
Kyle Titus
Steve Foushee
Linda Tucciarone
Surendra Gupta
Shanda Vaughn
Aimee Hall
Hawthorne Welcher
Chad Harpley
Willie Williams
Tripp Harrison
George Williams
Randy Hatcher
Margaret Woodard
Millie Huff
Janice Jackson
