[March 14, 2012]

FOSE Announces Cybersecurity Conference Agenda

To protect against continually evolving cyber threats and meet the growing digital needs of government, FOSE 2012 is highlighting the importance of cyber education and the latest cybersecurity innovations. The event will take place April 3-5, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

"Cybersecurity is mission critical to all government operations," said Daniel McKinnon, Vice President, Government Events, 1105 Media, Inc. "Failure to adequately protect assets can have dire consequences, including privacy invasions, damaged infrastructure, loss of communications and stolen intellectual property. FOSE will address comprehensive cybersecurity solutions from both a policy and technical perspective to address present and future challenges."

FOSE's Cybersecurity Conference will host two tracks - executive and technical - that delve into Federal CIO and CISO initiatives driven by recent changes in the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Attendees will hear from top government security experts from civilian and defense agencies, including David Stender, Associate CIO for Cybersecurity and Chief Information Security Officer, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Gregory Wilshusen, Director of Information Security Issues, Government Accountability Office; Starnes Walker, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer & Technical Director, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command & U.S. 10th Fleet, U.S. Navy; Lawrence Hale, Director, Office of Strategic Solutions and Security Services, U.S. General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service; Gordon M. Snow, Assistant Direcor of the Cyber Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Christopher L. Smith, CIO, Cyber Security & Privacy Information - Operations, USDA.

The Cybersecurity: Program and Policy Management track will cover the following sessions:

-Security Innovations - A Market Update
-Continuous Monitoring - The Programmatics
-Threat Intelligence - Access, Availability and Understanding It All
-Security and ROI - Creative Security Funding
-Insider Threat - The New Presidential Directive
-The Latest Attacks - What Do They Mean to the Mission?

The Cybersecurity: Tactics, Tools & Technologies track will cover the following sessions:

-Security Innovation - Hygiene, Threat, Detection, Tolerance - Old Dogs, New Tricks
-Continuous Monitoring - The Tools and the Savings
-Threat Intelligence - New Products and Their Payoff
-ROI of Security - Cost Saving Technical Solutions
-Insider Threat - A Technical Approach to Detection
-New Attacks - Identifying the Critical Ones

Cyber demonstrations at FOSE, hosted by John Breeden II, Director of the GCN Lab and Mischel Kwon of Mischel Kwon and Associates, will showcase live actionable cyber intelligence products, new virtual machine monitoring, honey potting, active directory monitoring, context based malware analysis and much more. Additionally, three top cyber analysts will perform live attack identification of the latest intrusions by performing packet analysis and malware reversal through the use of current tools and techniques to identify advanced attack patterns.

To access the full program agenda, visit www.fose.com.

To register as press, click here.

About FOSE

FOSE, produced by 1105 Media's Government Events Group, is the premier government information technology (IT) event that brings together federal, state, local and private sector partners to share the latest innovations and best practices in technology implementation. Focusing on both technology and policy management, FOSE 2012 is comprised of five conferences: Cybersecurity, Cloud and Virtualization, Mobile Government, Defense Innovations as well as Records and Information Management. Providing a year-long educational forum, FOSE will also host individual conferences for each of these topic areas during 2012. FOSE 2012 will be held April 3-5 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. www.fose.com

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