Back by Popular Demand! Top officials and experts from the government IT community return to the highly sought after Public Sector Innovation Summit. Join us to continue conversations on high-priority issues from cost-effective cloud security to mobility solutions and explore new areas of development including big security and transforming IT environments. As government IT functions continue to demand cost-effective, efficient and flexible ent...

The Security Through Innovation Summit will bring together top thought leaders and innovators from the Gov IT community and feature sessions and breakouts on cloud managed security services, automating cyber readiness, industrial control systems and the impact of IoT, FedRAMP, continuous diagnostics and mitigation, and host-based security systems.

On January 20th President-elect Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. For many of us this is the first Presidential Transition that we have experienced and what lies ahead for all of us still remains unclear. Join the ACT-IAC NexUS community on February 16th from 4:00 - 6:30 PM to hear from executives in government and industry as they discuss lessons from past Presidential transitions as well as the status o...

Join SANS at this innovative Summit as we focus on enabling organizations to build effective cyber threat intelligence analysis capabilities. Most organizations are familiar with threat intelligence, but have no real concept of how to create and produce proper intelligence. The 2017 Summit will focus on specific analysis techniques and capabilities that can be used to properly create and maintain Cyber Threat Intelligence in your organization....

This course provides an in-depth look at testing the controls using NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 4 and ensuring the use of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) for Federal Security Systems. The focus of the course is an in-depth explanation of each NIST SP 800-53 Revision 4 controls to include what method should be used to test and validate each security control in accordance with NIST SP 800-53A, Rev. 4 and NIST SP 800-115, what evidence should be gat...

Offense informs Defense!SANS Pen Test HackFest Training & Summit is coming back for another year of mind blowing and exciting hands-on learning opportunities! This year's HackFest Summit features two days of leading talks from top experts and then six days of hands-on, immersion-style pen test training in one of our nine courses to choose from!! Learn and develop your offensive techniques as you strive to better defend your environment. Wh...

Why not get your Cybersecurity training close to DC at SANS Northern Virginia - Crystal City 2016? We are bringing our top courses and instructors to make this the perfect training event for you! Gain the skills and learn about the tools you need to protect your organization from security breaches and attack risk.Put the skills you'll learn to practical use and join more than 79,000 GIAC certified professionals who use their training to keep t...

Prerequisite: Should have at least six months of contract experience, have taken the FAR Workshop or another basic FAR course before this course. What you will learn: The Advanced FAR Workshop provides an in-depth analysis of the most important parts of the FAR. In this two-day class, we will focus on those FAR Parts that tend to generate the most issues and questions, specifically: • The classification of workers • Intellectual Prop...

SANS Security Operations Center (SOC) Summit: As we see regularly in the news, the number of successful data breaches continues to increase. Adversaries seem to have the upper hand, as many organizations fail to effectively detect and quickly respond to these breaches. Over 80% of all breach victims learn of a compromise from third-party notifications, not from internal security teams, and are often caught by surprise. As a result, executives...

Two concentrated days on how to understand and use the Federal Acquisition Regulation in your daily contracting activities including in-depth analysis of the FAR system, the key contract clauses and contract forms. Provides comprehensive coverage of the FAR for new users and an advanced treatment of specific issues for experienced contract professionals. Course includes an explanation and demonstration of how to use the FAR online for research...