When a national healthcare system undergoes a major disruptive event, such as a pandemic, the experience can catalyze positive, transformative change, especially if the event is severe and persists for years. COVID-19 has been a disruptor like no other. In addition to the misery it has visited upon the world, the pandemic has created a rare opportunity to transform and modernize a sprawling healthcare system that has been stubbornly slow to ch...

Organizations are moving data and applications into public cloud services at a rapid pace. As the public cloud footprint expands, red teams and attackers are reinventing the kill chain in the cloud. Public cloud services provide new, creative ways to discover assets, compromise credentials, move laterally, and exfiltrate data. In this keynote, we explore common techniques from the MITRE ATT&CK Cloud Matrix. For each technique, attendees wi...

Conventional wisdom suggests that a zero-trust framework or architecture be implemented as part of a holistic security strategy. “Trust nothing, verify everything” seems like the safest bet. Yet, it remains unclear how this approach keeps your organization's connectivity, which supports your most critical business applications, more secure without impeding their business intent. Uncover the most pressing network security policy iss...

The last few years have taught us a lot. Today we’re smarter, faster and more innovative than ever before. We’re no longer just getting through — now’s our time to break through. Retail’s Big Show is retail’s most important event. With three days of educational programing, an enormous Expo featuring the latest retail solutions, plus an Innovation Lab and Startup Zone featuring breakthrough technology, Retail...

More than ever, state and local governments are experiencing a strong sense of urgency to provide the best constituent experiences, update internal operations and enhance security. For agencies focusing on big-picture improvements, modernization is the answer. While today’s IT teams worry about every aspect of an agency’s operations, robust solutions exist to help ease the burden. Strategic investments can help governments move to...

Registration is Closed With over 6,000 individual and corporate members, our chapter boasts the largest membership in the AFCEA International community. Our chapter is blessed with the hometown advantage of having the Pentagon in our back yard, the Nation's Capital right next door, and the backbone of the Internet at our center. This means that our Monthly luncheons, IT Days, Breakfast and special events connect you with Government speakers th...

FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training discovering cutting-edge security approaches, managing risk in the ever-changing threat of the cybersecurity workforce. Join us as we talk with a panel of C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks. Educating C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers) on the global cybercrime epidemic, and how to build Cyber Resilient organizatio...

In “The 2021 State of Enterprise Breaches,” Forrester found that enterprises spend a median of 37 days and a mean of $2.4 million to find and recover from a breach. Ensure your team is prepared for advanced threat actors. Forrester recommends that security leaders must advocate for investment in efforts like digital transformation to help the organization be more adaptable and focus on data and metrics to uncover prevalent attack v...

DNS provides one of the best methods for command and control, covert tunneling, and blind data exfiltration. Burp Collaborator provides a great way to both confirm blind injection, and also exfiltrate data. Penetration testers may prepend names to each DNS request, allowing data exfiltration subject to DNS's length limitations (63 characters per label, 255 characters total name) and character limitations. This webcast will describe methods for...

Cloud-based solutions can help government agencies accelerate digital transformation. By migrating workloads to the cloud, agencies can improve their processes from end-to-end while offering solutions that enhance data security, mitigate risk and provide next-generation speed and flexibility. The common thread in all these improvements is artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) which allows non-technical staff to use prebuilt t...