This year, Hacker Halted’s theme is the Cyber Butterfly Effect: When Small Mistakes Lead to Big Disasters. The goal of the conference is to bring the IT security community together to discuss how organizations are often compromised through the smallest of mistakes and how implementing effective changes can have ripple effects throughout all departments of an organization.

We are proud to announce The Honorable John P Carlin, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security as the Keynote Speaker for the April 6, Atlanta Cyber Security Summit. Register now to join the growing list of security experts & cutting-edge solution providers and gain direct, intimate access to CISO's, CTO's, CIO's, CSO's, CEO's & Senior Information Security executives in need of innovative protection solutions. The Cyber Sec...

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...

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...

When the Zombie Apocalypse comes, Ethical Hackers will save the world. In this world of “Super Storms” its not hard to look back and recall Tornadoes in Huntsville or Oklahoma, Hurricane Katrina, Typhoons in the Philippines, Floods in India and Mexico, the earthquake in Haiti and most recently, the deep freeze that has engulfed the US from Michigan to Georgia. The list goes on and on, and as we become more reliant on technology we...