RECLAIM YOUR NAME: Privacy in the World of Big Data In NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering’s third, eagerly anticipated Sloan Cyber Security Lecture, Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill explores the expanding collection and use of Big Data in the marketplace, recognizing the challenges it presents for consumers and businesses--as well as for agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, responsible for safeguarding both. Commissioner...

Reducing the Nation's Cyber Risk: White House Insights on the President's Critical Infrastructure Framework President Obama's Cyber Security Executive Order 13636 calls for an intensive effort to adopt a common national Framework aimed at reducing the cyber risk to our country's critical infrastructure. This event, featuring the White House Director of Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Samara Moore, together with a panel of senior Adminis...

Surviving on a Diet of Poisoned Fruit: Reducing the Risks of America’s Cyber Dependencies In his Distinguished Lecture, Richard Danzig proposes strategies for coping with a security paradox presented by cyber systems: As digital systems grant us unprecedented powers, they also make us less secure. While their immense communication capabilities enable wide scale collaboration and networking, they open doors to unprecedented intrusion. Con...

Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, and Exploit Development training is coming to Austin, TX from SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training. "Hackers" - individuals who enjoy the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming and circumventing limitations of systems to achieve novel and clever outcomes. If this sounds like you, you can't afford to miss SANS Pen Test Austin 2017. There will be six-days of nonstop in-...

Scenario #1: You are in a position which requires a moment by moment use of your leadership skills. You are responsible for producing results as well as lead a group of people with their own competencies, gifts and challenges. You spend a great deal of your time cultivating cooperation among your team members. You understand the power of a strategically focused team; however, you want to develop/cultivate your own skills to further build a tea...

NCMA’s new SubCon Training Workshops (SubCon) event is designed to provide targeted subcontracting training by industry and government instructors and practitioners. SubCon consists of four half-day workshops. Attend one, two, three, or all four—depending on your training needs and budget. The six training sessions within each workshop include unique presentations covering essential topics related to subcontracting.

Don’t take the chances of incurring liability because an accommodation request isn’t handled properly. Joel Kravetz, a seasoned practitioner well versed in the interactive process, will walk you through all the steps necessary to effectively use the process to provide reasonable accommodations required by the Rehabilitation Act. Mr. Kravetz will elaborate on how the interactive process works from start to finish, how to manage requ...

Offering myriad possibilities, cognitive services teach computers to understand the world as humans do. This emerging technology can provide exciting and powerful capabilities for government agencies to better meet their unique missions and improve citizen services and engagement. To hear how cognitive services can advance government, RSVP and join us for this Meetup, Learning How to Apply Cognitive Services to Your Agency's Mission. We are ex...

It’s no secret that the federal government is sitting on a gold mine of invaluable data. This data could hold the keys to reducing fraud and waste, serving our veterans better, and even preventing the next deadly outbreak or terrorist attack – but only with the right tools to make use of it. Hear from government leaders on how to overcome challenges of operationalizing big data Learn about trends in big data across the federal gove...

The Team Results Masterclass is a 2½-day GSA-listed leadership masterclass aimed at people with management responsibilities in government and business. The Masterclass is similar to the Harvard summer classes in terms of the learning and networking benefits, but is much faster and far less expensive. Key benefits include: Professional preferment because you have received high-end training; Professional friendships that give you lasting...