Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Georgia Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public- and private-sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use the insp...

Hacker Halted is a global series of computer and information security conferences presented by EC-Council. The objective of the Hacker Halted Conferences is to raise international awareness towards increased education and ethics in IT security. This year’s Hacker Halted will take a look at the plague that is afflicting our society at all levels; The Cyber Pandemic. So what is the Cyber Pandemic? In our opinion this is the plaque of moder...

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...

The Large District Fly-In is being hosted by the Center for Digital Education and will be held in Atlanta, GA. The largest 25 districts and select others will be invited to take part in discussions that articulate the priorities and challenges large school districts are facing as they “shift to digital.”Free of charge to public-sector leaders, the discussions will highlight the use of information technology in district management a...

The most well-planned attacks are often lengthy, stealthy and highly sophisticated in their use of intelligence gathering and the broad array of mechanisms employed. All these attacks, however, follow a number of common phases and characteristics that fall under the umbrella of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), being defined here as those attacks that are well-researched, well-funded and having very specific objectives. By developing an under...

ISMG's Fraud Summit is a one-day event focused exclusively on the top fraud trends impacting organizations and the mitigation strategies to overcome those challenges. The last five years have seen an explosion of technological innovation which brought many opportunities for business growth. Combined with the associated changes in socio-economic behaviors, the pace of change has also brought new risks and opportunities for criminals to become e...