Localities know the transformative power of smart city initiatives to drive government efficiency and improve constituents’ quality of life. With the right digital infrastructure and data analytics solutions, smart city technologies can help create communities that are safer, more equitable, more enjoyable places to live. But smart city advancements don’t just improve efficiency. They can be valuable economic development tools for...

Protecting critical infrastructure through Operational Technology (OT)/Industrial Control System (ICS) cyber defense is an ever-changing and evolving field required to continually adapt cybersecurity strategics to meet new challenges and threats—all while maintaining the safety and reliability of facilities and production operations. The purpose of this survey is to poll organizations that operate OT systems– this includes ICS, OT,...

Our 2022 Survey on infrastructure operations is designed to explore how organizations are utilizing cloud-native applications and integrating those applications within their security monitoring and response capabilities. We continue to see growth of adopting of cloud-native applications, but larger issues always remain. As we adopt and utilize more and more cloud-native applications, is the security team able to keep up with newer forms of tel...

Every network has a security vulnerability. Vulnerabilities obviously lead to threats. Do you know where your vulnerabilities and any hidden threats are located? With major security breaches happening every year to businesses and government agencies of every type, don't you want to find (and fix) your network BEFORE a hacker finds and exploits the weakness? In this webinar, we explain what you need to do to actually protect yourself from vulne...

Join members of the SANS Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Team in a new ICS Webcast Series: ICS Cyber Resilience, Active Defense & Safety. Presenters will address the recent increase in attack campaigns and impacts seen across multiple sectors in the ICS space. Topics of discussion will include ransomware impacting critical infrastructure, detecting advanced adversaries inside ICS networks, and a variety of other threats and defenses. This...

Over the past few years, we have seen drastic, but welcome, changes in how organizations manage their own software and code. Organizations are embracing security at the code level, encouraging developers and security teams to work closely together. Giving way to the term “DevSecOps”, developers now integrate automated processes to build and ship code, streamline the development cycle, and ship code more securely. However, cyber adv...

Over the past few years, we have seen drastic, but welcome, changes in how organizations manage their own software and code. Organizations are embracing security at the code level, encouraging developers and security teams to work closely together. Giving way to the term “DevSecOps”, developers now integrate automated processes to build and ship code, streamline the development cycle, and ship code more securely. However, cyber adv...

As the world continues to endure ongoing global disruption, cyber-attackers have been constantly updating their tactics in light of emerging trends. According to MIT Technology Review, 121 million ransomware attacks were recorded in the first half of 2020, each one attempting to encrypt private data and extort payment for its release. The automated elements of these attacks, malware that moves faster than security teams can respond, is one of...

"You go to the attack with the most advanced alignments, but you win with the side ones". Modern operations see even actual this quote in two new domains of warfare: electromagnetic spectrum and cyberspace. These new domains are potentially accessible from every classic one and represent dimensions that commanders have to schedule and use both during an operation by using 'Sensors' and 'Effector'. To plan a mission that takes into account acti...

The AFCEA Intelligence Committee Webinar Series will look at the latest intelligence and security issues facing the nation. These conversations will feature members of AFCEA’s highly regarded Intelligence Committee, a volunteer group of public- and private sector intelligence professionals dedicated to strengthening government, industry, and academic collaboration for a safer future. The series will focus on identifying the most promisin...