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Top Events for Cybersecurity Month

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October is Cybersecurity Month and many organizations have taken the call to use these 31 days to educate and collaborate on solutions for a more secure cyber world. With over 70 cybersecurity events posted for the month of October on GovEvents, we wanted to highlight some of our picks for must attend events this month.[Tweet "Check out the top #government focused events for #Cybersecurity month #GovEventsBlog"]

  • October 7: Creating a Culture of Cybersecurity at Work (webinar) - The National Association of Counties will hold a series of webinars throughout the month with this one focusing on how organizations can enhance their security practices with widely available training and educational resources.
  • October 13: Closing the Desktop Security Vulnerability (webinar) - The combination of connectivity and skill can increase the risk of malicious intrusion at the desktop. This event, featuring the director of the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), will talk through NIAP's new requirements as well as the new Peripheral Sharing Switch Protection Profile (PSS PP 3.0).

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Events that Lunch: Space for Lunchtime Events in DC

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In the competitive market for people's time and attention, lunch events are a great option for organizations looking to make a connection with attendees. After-hours events are difficult for some to manage as they need to balance family care after work, however, everyone needs to eat lunch. Why not help your audience use that time effectively?

While lunches can be large hotel ballroom gatherings, there is a great opportunity to use the lunch hour(s) for smaller, more intimate events. Smaller lunches offer a great opportunity for real speaker and audience interaction (more so than a quick Q&A shouted across a large ballroom). Lunchtime events are appropriate for single speakers or panels and even just as a networking venue. There is a huge array of private room options in DC and the surrounding metro area. Here are a couple that we think are interesting spaces to consider.

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GSA clarifies conference policy but industry concerns persist

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General Services Administration employees are not banned from traveling to conferences. But they do need to take a few extra steps to attend.

Industry representatives can breathe a sigh of relief as GSA EXPO in San Antonio next week still will see many agency employees walking the conference halls. The Industry Advisory Council and American Council for Technology's Management of Change Conference in Cambridge, Md., in early June will enjoy more than a few GSA employees beyond the invited speakers.

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Government Community Selects BEST Government Events of 2011

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Throughout the month of March, over 20,000 GovEvents' members, site users and social media followers were asked to cast their vote in naming The BEST Government Events of 2011. Last year, the same community was asked to predict the Most Important Government Events of 2011.

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LAST CHANCE to Win the Title of 2011’s BEST Government Event!

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LAST CHANCE! Do any of your 2011 events deserve to be the BEST Government Event of 2011? Tell your supporters to Nominate or Vote for it to Win the Title of 2011's BEST Government Event!

We've made it easy to get nominated--just use one (or all!) of the following techniques to spread the word! Copy the verbiage below, paste it into the corresponding communication tool, and replace the items in red bold with the correct information. TITLE OF EVENT = the event you would like to nominate.

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