You are invited to start your training for 2015 by attending SANS Security East 2015 where SANS will provide outstanding courses in IT security, forensics, and security management presented by the best cybersecurity instructors in the country. At SANS events you get the kind of hands-on, immersion training that you can put to work immediately. http://www.sans.org/info/164627The lineup of courses for cybersecurity and infosec professionals at a...

The Federal Cloud Computing Summit will be held on January 14-15, 2015 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center. This educational symposium will feature cloud computing thought leaders from government and academia discussing topics such as Cloud Strategy from the CXO Perspective; Navigating the Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap; Cloud Success Stories; and Cloud in 2020. In addition, Acting GSA FedRAMP Director Matt Goodrich will give a brie...

You are invited to attend SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2014 (CDI), SANS is the one educational organization known for developing the cybersecurity skills most in need right now. SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2014 will feature courses in IT security, security management, IT audit, penetration testing, and computer forensics, including short courses that can be taken with a long course to enhance your training. Every course, evening talk, and s...

As evolving methodologies of cyber espionage and disruption continue to grow in scope and sophistication, the federal government has sought to bolster its defenses through the implementation of a standardized cybersecurity framework, influenced by drivers such as FedRAMP, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) program, which are designed to enable the detection and elimination of threats in real time....

GAO projects that 75% of the Federal government’s IT budget is spent maintaining legacy IT systems. That’s $62 billion for software and hardware that is time-consuming to maintain and difficult to adapt to today’s demands for greater transparency and citizen access. Government agencies are looking for a more flexible and agile IT framework. Application modernization, shared services, OMB’s Cloud First mandate, mobility...

GTRA's SecureGOV Council Meeting Invitation-Only Executive Collaboration. GTRA is an executive retreat designed to facilitate a thought provoking exchange of best practices and strategies among federal IT’s elite. Features of this meeting include: • No Tradeshow Floor • Intimate: 150 – 200 executives for quality relationship building • 50% of time spent collaborating in roundtables w/ 5-10 executives • No ...

Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 2:00 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Accreditation: 1 CPE Cost: Complimentary Cloud-Driven Data Insights in Government Proactively addressing priorities and mitigating risk requires that leaders and staff have reliable access to all information so they can make decisions and swiftly respond to changing conditions. To enable this, agencies need to effectively manage several aspects of their Big Data—from how they store grow...

COMPLIMENTARY BRIEFING The Watchful Eye: Mitigating Risk in the Cloud Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Time: 8:00 - 10:30 AMCost: Complimentary Credits: 3 CPEs/CEUs Focus: Government agencies are adopting a Cloud First approach to do more with existing resources while rapidly opening up new ways to meet citizens’ demands to engage with agencies online. Using a pay-as-you-go model, agencies can now access a broad portfolio of middleware...

Live! 360 brings together five conferences, and the brightest minds in IT and Dev, to explore leading edge technologies and conquer current ones. These co-located events will incorporate knowledge transfer and networking, along with out-of-this-world education and training, as you create your own custom conference, mixing and matching sessions and workshops to best suit your needs. Whether you are a developer who uses Visual Studio, SQL Serve...

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