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 that provide current poli...

Practice your skills in an engaging, team-based environment to improve your cyber security executive decision making proficiency. Cyber42 is a realistic leadership simulation with applicable and discussion-based outcomes. Leave with a confidence boast in a key skill senior leaders seek from their CISOs: nimble decision making. With enterprises in need of protecting against an endless and increasing onslaught of information security threats, te...

We’ve all had a “bad” boss before. We’ve all worked in places where we felt unseen as human beings with lives outside of the 9-5. The goal of this presentation is to bring awareness to the need for empathy and emotional intelligence in the workplace and as a leader in addition to how you can improve empathy and emotional intelligence on your teams. What is empathy and emotional intelligence? Great – so why does th...

In this series, Dean Parsons will review observed ICS attacks in the Oil & Gas, Electric and Water sectors and map them to the MITRE ATT&CK ICS framework. Throughout this series, Dean will review the most common attacker tactics and techniques used across commonly targeted critical infrastructure sectors. In this final part of the series, Dean will specifically speak to the Water sector. This webcast will dive into Initial Access, Atta...

Join leaders from Government Technology and Amazon Web Services on January 11, 2024, at 10 AM PST/ 1 PM EST for a live webinar in our Ask the Experts Digital series – The series dedicates half of each session to audience questions and comments, giving attendees direct access to industry experts. This session provides a quick level-set on generative artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) – what they are, strategies for...

AFCEA Central Maryland Chapter hosts a monthly luncheon series that features keynote speeches from industry leaders, networking opportunities, and updates on upcoming events. Chapter members and corporate chapter sponsors are welcome to join us each month. Our luncheons take place at the Live! Casino & Hotel in Arundel Mills. Please stay tuned for more details. Please see our website for FAQ's! For any other questions, please contact lunch...

Join experts and decision makers in the military, industry, and congress. Leadership will discuss how the Surface Force is a critical element of national defense and security in an era of great power competition. With 80+ exhibitors, 3,000+ attendees, this is one of the most influential professional development and networking opportunities in the defense community. Theme: The Fight, the Force, the Future!

FloCon focuses on applying any and all collected data to defend enterprise networks. While past conferences emphasized network flow data, FloCon now centers on improving network security by analyzing a variety of data supported by innovative machine learning, hardware, and network storage. These analyses draw upon this diverse data to track security-critical characteristics and threats, including network size, structure, and traffic -- plus a...

Industrial control system (ICS) security represents one of the more challenging areas for security professionals. The typical ICS is complex and interconnected. It’s often a legacy system that wasn’t designed with security in mind and, because it’s different from traditional IT assets, it has very different security requirements. And no surprise—such systems are increasingly targeted by sophisticated cyberattackers, inc...

No municipality can have a fully developed policy for technology that’s evolving as fast as AI, but every municipality can be prepared for how to navigate this path from procurement to reporting. In this session, municipal leaders will share both policy and technology perspectives on actionable steps for any community, regardless of how resourced it is, to map their own way forward for responsible AI exploration and use in municipal gove...