We have a really special event brewing for you at SANS Pen Test Austin 2015, and you've gotta check it out. Every organization needs skilled people who know how to find vulnerabilities, understand risk, and help prioritize resources based on mitigating potential real-world attacks. That's what SANS Pen Test Austin is all about! If you like to break things, put them back together, find out how they work, and mimic the actions of real-world bad...

SummitChairman: Jim Routh & Frank KimSummit Dates: May 12-13, 2015Training Dates: May 14-19, 2015SANS and the National Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center (NH-ISAC) are pleased to announce the 3nd Annual Healthcare Cyber Security Summit. Healthcare is undergoing major changes. Patients are demanding more convenient and personalized care. Digital health is changing the way that doctors and patients interact. New technologies al...

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 are demanding that their security teams provid...

This course provides students insight into documented insider threat cases, recent studies conducted on the insider threat, current government and industry guidance and best practices, as well as technical actions that can be taken to prevent, detect and handle the Cyber Insider Threat in their organization. Topics covered in this course include: What is a Cyber Insider Threat? Motivations of the Cyber Insider Threat Types of Cyber Insider Thr...

Overview of the Workshop: Information systems security is considered one of the top priorities for most CIOs and agency heads. There are many pieces to security management, compliance and reporting requirements. The new FISMA regulation emphasizes on the importance of including an Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) program as part of agencies Information Technology (IT) Security Program. With new FISMA requirements on one hand...

Overview of the Workshop: Information systems security is considered one of the top priorities for most CIOs and agency heads. There are many pieces to security management, compliance and reporting requirements. With FISMA requirements, OMB requirements/DHS reporting requirements and NIST special guidance and standards (which are mandatory for compliance), many executives, managers and staff often have questions about what to do, how to compl...

Cyber Defense SummitChairman: Dr. Eric Cole CPE Credits: 16Pre-Summit Course Dates: August 13 - August 18, 2014Summit Dates: August 19-20, 2014Prevent. Detect. Respond.The mission of SANS' Cyber Defense curriculum, led by Dr. Eric Cole, is to teach individuals the essential skills and techniques needed to protect and secure an organization's critical information assets and business systems. http://www.sans.org/info/156480Now, for the first tim...

Guidance Software is proud to host CEIC 2014, one of the largest international gatherings of security, legal, enterprise, law enforcement, government, and risk and compliance attendees in the world, with a focus on the latest developments in digital investigations and invaluable training for EnCE® and EnCEP® certifications. A large number of our CEIC attendees return to this conference year after year for a unique blend of high-quality...

BREAKFAST BRIEFINGFederal Cybersecurity Update: Managing Information Security Risk Through CDM Continuous Monitoring as a Service Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) has become essential as attacks on federal networks have become ever more sophisticated, aggressive, and persistent. The CDM Program is intended to transform the way federal organizations manage cyber threats to their networks through strategically sourced tools and servic...

Webinar Topic: The Cybersecurity Imperative: An Agency's Toolbox for Secure Data Brought to you by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio, this complimentary one-hour webinar will explore how lead agencies are tackling the growing threat of cybersecurity. Executive Order 13636 [Feb 2013] on cybersecurity advises agencies: "Repeated cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure demonstrate the need for improved cyber security. The cyber threa...