For more than 10 years, the Internet Storm Center has been providing free analysis and warning to our community. Have you read Bojan's malware analysis articles? Have you seen Manuel's first hand insights into SCADA? Are you using Guy's DNS blackhole? Are you aware of our various data collections?SANSFIRE 2012 is not just another training event. It is our annual "ISC Powered" event. It is your chance to meet some of our handlers face to face,...

Federal Government enterprises are creating, collecting, and coping with unprecedented volumes of information, amassed as structured and unstructured content and in diverse data types. This growing information universe is increasingly difficult to manage, particularly given recent budget cutbacks and resource constraints. To complicate matters, many agency professionals do not agree on the best way to manage or derive useful information from t...

Although the Federal Government has dabbled in telework implementation since the 1980s, it was not until the Administration issued the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 that most took notice and began in earnest to update their enterprise-wide telework policies, programs, and enabling technologies. During the past 18 months, many organizations have taken pro-active steps to, as one agency official recently said, to “turbo-charge” th...

A conflict is growing in the federal IT space – one that pits traditional agency IT management against the influx of consumer technologies from employees eager to bring their own smartphones and tablets to work. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently threw its hat in the ring by announcing a mobile strategy allowing employees to bring their own devices to work to reduce operational costs, increase productivity, and improve cu...

Please join us for breakfast as we hear from a distinguished panel on "DoD Environmental Programs in the President's FY 2013 Budget Request."

Mark your calendar for SANS Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI) 2011, December 9 - 16 in Washington DC. Knowledge is power, especially when the knowledge is about the latest attacks and what to do about them. Now is the time to be sure you know how the newest attacks work and what can and cannot be done to stop them or mitigate the damage. Now is the time to be sure that your tools are up to the task of finding, blocking, and deciphering hacking at...

The Minority Business RoundTable (MBRT) is Hosting the Small Business Survival Summit in support of the White House Initiative on Small Business to provide Small and Minority Business advanced acquisition planning information to increase Federal & Corporate Contracting. Federal Officials from the Top Federal Procurement Agencies to Speak at CEO Summit on Contract Acquisition Set-asides: 8(a),SDVOB, Veteran, Women, HUBZone, SDB. Top Federa...

SANS WhatWorks in Incident Detection and Log Management Summit 2011The Incident Detection and Log Management Summit will offer two full days of content in a single track, consisting of expert keynotes, professional briefings and dynamic panels. It will concentrate on network-centric and host-centric methods to detect intruders that work in the real world.We will also focus on which logging configurations capture the history of a hacker's activ...

This one day industry and government bilateral conference was designed to focus on ways in which the two countries defense and security industries can work more closely togehter to accomplish common goals by illuminating those technological and programmatic areas which will provide U.S. and DoD and Finland's MoD officials have identified as needed now. Knowledge of those areas will provide U.S. and Finish companies witha point of departure fro...

The 2011 Online Trust Forum being held in Washington DC October 17-19, will address the business, technical and regulatory challenges impacting online trust and confidence in online services and communications. The Forum brings together an international audience of business, industry and government leaders, executives and practitioners. Forum attendees share, learn and collaborate on how to create an alignment between consumer security and pri...