This year, 1.6 billion connected things were in use by smart cities, a 39% increase from 2015. Gartner defines a smart city as an urbanized area where multiple sectors cooperate to achieve sustainable outcomes through the analysis of contextual, real-time information shared among sector-specific information and operational technology systems. The result is a call for education, entrepreneurship, and innovation to help transform the ultra-conne...

The strength of our country depends on a strong military and an effective government. The chain of command needs visibility to all aspects of force readiness from recruiting, education, and promotions to details on awards, passports, visas, personnel and legal matters. How can agencies break down data barriers to achieve a 360 degree view of their workforce? This webinar will explore how to use data to capture and report on the current state o...

Learn about key issues including keeping trespassers off utility or other easements. This topic will include legal and practical advice on identifying the priorities in land rights and responsibilities regarding easements and rights of way as the dominant estate and as to competing interests with respect thereto. Whether the servient estate holders, other easement holders or other third parties, determining what can, may and can't be done on t...

Join SANS at this innovative Summit as we focus on enabling organizations to build effective cyber threat intelligence analysis capabilities. Most organizations are familiar with threat intelligence, but have no real concept of how to create and produce proper intelligence. The 2017 Summit will focus on specific analysis techniques and capabilities that can be used to properly create and maintain Cyber Threat Intelligence in your organization....

Upon completion of this course, the participant should have adequate knowledge of the background and requirements related to the CPSR. Further, the participant should have a basic understanding of policies, procedures and practices required to comply with the requirements. We will highlight recent developments in the CPSR environment from the Defense Contract Management Agency’s perspective and cover new regulations and statues. Further,...

For decades, information security functions have fought for the responsibility to monitor the flow of information through the organization, in paper and digital formats, throughout its entire life cycle, and to determine the existence and accuracy of data classification. This effort has largely been successful. However, if all data flows through security’s filters, it is incumbent upon security professionals to implement the proper cont...

Best Practices in Using Data Analytics to Detect and Prevent Fraud and Improper Payments Fraud Detection: Identify where fraud is most likely occurring - and ways to improve internal controls to prevent it Improper Payments: Use data analytics to uncover which payments are likely improper and recover those funds Benefits And Procurement Fraud: Examine specialized strategies for detecting and preventing fraud in a variety of benefit programs an...

You are invited to start your training for 2017 by attending SANS Las Vegas 2017, where SANS will provide outstanding courses in IT security, forensics, and security management presented by the best cybersecurity teachers in the country. At SANS events you get the kind of hands-on, immersion training that you can put to work immediately.Visit our Schedule page for complete course descriptions, and for all of the courses offered at SANS Las Veg...

Utilize performance benchmarking to drive improvements in government SELECTING THE RIGHT BENCHMARKS: Identify the right benchmarks to use in measurement-resistant government settings BENCHMARK ANALYSIS: Pinpoint specific areas where performance can be improved – what is really driving performance? REPORTING AND COMPARING: Identify how you compare with key benchmarks – and report progress MODULE 1 Introduction to Benchmarking and Be...

The final version of ISO 13485:2016 is now available and companies should be planning their implementation. There are significant changes from the earlier version; they will require major modifications to the Quality Management System (QMS). The new version has better alignment with FDA's QSR, but there are still major differences that create issues for effective QMS implementation. This workshop covers the differences from the 2003 version to...