The 6th Annual GFIRST National Conference will be held August 15-20, 2010 at JW Marriot San Antonio, Hill Country, Texas. With an increasingly complex, evolving threat landscape to protect, a secure infrastructure is more important than ever. Regardless of the sector you work in, it is critical to understand the threat landscape to build an effective incident management and coordination capability that can accommodate applicable Legal and policy issues and initiatives. You can shape an effective response capability to manage tomorrow’s risks in cyberspace - starting here.
GFIRST6: Building Today, Shaping Tomorrow – Ensuring an Effective Response Capability to Manage Risks in Cyberspace.
What is GFIRST?
GFIRST is a group of technical and tactical practitioners from incident response and security response teams responsible for securing government information technology systems and providing private sector support. GFIRST members work together to understand and handle computer security incidents and to encourage proactive and preventative security practices across government agencies. GFIRST promotes cooperation among the full range of Federal, State and local agencies, including defense, civilian, intelligence, and law enforcement.
GFIRST6 Session Tracks:
Policy / Government
Provides attendees with an understanding of national-level cybersecurity policy and initiatives, as well as DHS-specific initiatives. In addition, provides the opportunity for US-CERT federal, state, and local partners to discuss their activities and efforts to manage cyber risk.
Threat Landscape
Allows participants the opportunity to discuss shifts in the evolving threat landscape, from widespread and unfocused Internet worms to targeted attacks aimed at specific organizations and individuals.
Incident Management
Allows participants to talk about best practices and efforts within the Incident Management lifecycle, including preparation, detection / analysis, and response / recovery.
Coordination
Offers attendees the opportunity to re-think traditional relationships among cyber authorities, while redefining necessary alliances to secure cyberspace.
Legal / Law
Aims to educate attendees on legal issue related to the use of communication, transactional, and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies.
There are many reasons to attend the GFIRST Conference:
The GFIRST Conference is open to all interested in learning more about cyber security and incident response. GFIRST is a great place for public and private sector leaders serving in non-technical roles to become familiar with the fundamentals of cyber security and incident response. GFIRST is also an excellent resource for practitioners in incident response and information security from the public and private sectors.
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