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Overview

The following events provide University System employees educational opportunities in developing and expanding effective information security and risk management programs for the University System and Institutions. Unless otherwise noted, there is no cost to the participant and appropriate staff members are encouraged to attend.

Events

October

  • (Webcast) Transparent Data Encryption: New Technologies and Best Practices for Database Encryption
    WHEN: Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
    FEATURING: Barbara Filkins, Jim Hietala, and Roxana Bradescu
    https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92778
    Sponsored By: Oracle (http://www.oracle.com/)

    In this Webcast, SANS Analysts Barbara Filkins and Jim D. Hietala, along with Oracle's senior director of database security products, will describe and compare methodologies for data encryption, including new transparent encryption approaches that help avoid pitfalls and address regulatory requirements while minimizing risk and cost.

  • (Webcast) Finding the Root Cause of Any Security Alert - Fast
    ****NOTE****This is a re-broadcast from a previous webcast on 8/5/09
    WHEN: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
    FEATURING: Matt Dieckman and Joe Levy
    https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92743
    Sponsored By: Solera Networks (http://www.soleranetworks.com/) and Sonic Wall (http://www.sonicwall.com/us/)

    As a security administrator, your job is to quickly decide if a security alert poses a real threat to your network, how to remediate, and the priority for action. Your operational challenge is linking an alarm to actual network activity by specific agents or users. The lack of specific data often forces security professionals to guess at the degree of exposure, or whether a breach actually occurred. Without data, your ability to identify the scope of a security event or verify compliance with security policy is confined to a perpetual state of gray

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  • (Webcast) IT Audit for the Virtual Environment WHEN: Thursday, October 08, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
    FEATURING: J. Michael Butler, Rob Vandenbrink, & Charu Chaubal https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92718
    Sponsored By: vmware (http://www.vmware.com/)

    This is a pre-recorded Webcast Featuring J. Michael Butler, Rob Vandenbrink, and Charu Chaubal.

    Organizations are now overcoming their security fears and diving into server virtualization to serve a variety of purposes. But what does the PCI DSS auditor know about virtualization? This panel discusses how to help auditors locate and ensure secure processes around sensitive data in all stages of development while bringing the auditor to the next level in which virtualization is used to enhance the audit experience?

  • (Webcast) Automated Malware Threat Analysis: Getting actionable intelligence on attacks effectively and efficiently
    WHEN: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
    FEATURING: Chad Loeven and Brian Jack
    https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92729
    Sponsored By: Sunbelt Software (http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/)

    Front-line security professionals and researchers are bombarded by malware and awash in masses of data. Faced with this firehose of data, there's an every-growing challenge to keep up with seemingly contradictory goals: process and analyze ever-increasing amounts of malware yet distill the streams of resulting data into something actionable.

Standing Meetings

  • CISO Lecture Series - These meetings are held once every three months and are sponsored by the Office of Information Security. We discuss topics relevant to information security and privacy. These meetings are for designated Information Security Officers (ISO), their backups, and other USG employees only.
  • Meeting agenda is provided prior to each meeting. If you are a designated ISO and/or backup for your institution or a USG employee and you are not receiving these, please contact us at (404) 657-0353 or by e-mail at infosec@usg.edu
  • Previous CISO Lecture Series Materials
  • USG Continuity of Operations (aka: BCP/DRP/EO) Meetings - These meetings are held once every three months and are sponsored by the USG Office of Information Security. We discuss BCP/DR/EO topics and trends, upcoming policy changes, and other activities.
  • These meetings are primarily for designated USG BCP Coordinators and backups. Meeting agenda is provided to BCP Coordinators prior to each meeting. If you are a designated BCP Coordinator or backup for your institution and are not receiving these, please contact USG Office of Information Security (OIS) at infosec@usg.edu.
  • Meeting specifics are distributed to ISOs prior to each meeting. If you are a designated ISO or ISO backup for your institution and are not receiving these updates, please contact us at 404-657-0353 or by email at infosec@usg.edu.
  • ACIT Security Advisory Group (SAG) - Comprised of USG employees whose job duties deal directly or indirectly with information security (e.g., Information Security Officers and information security staff, technical security and network administrators, legal staff, IT auditors, etc.). The bi- meetings are a forum to share what other institutions are doing in policy development; information on new or proposed legislation impacting the USG's information assets and how USG institutions are preparing for it; discussing security and software tools used; and lessons learned, etc. It is also a valuable forum to get to know other USG institution employees within the information security community. Open for ACIT members only. For meeting confirmation or more details contact: USG Office of Information Security at infosec@usg.edu.
    • 2009 Dates/Time/Location:

Workshops

  • Strategic Security Planning - Coming Soon!
  • Risk Management - Coming Soon!
  • Computer Security Incident Response - Coming Soon!
  • FISMA-2002 - Coming Soon!
  • Information Security Program Reporting - Coming Soon!
  • Identity Theft / Identity Fraud - Coming Soon!

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