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Event Simulcast Provides Students Cost-Effective, Convenient Interactive Access to SANS' Top Training Classes via Real Time Streaming BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute today announced its largest training event of the year, SANS 2012, will be offered via live simulcast. Event Simulcast provides a new delivery mechanism that allows students with limited training budgets or travel bans interactive access to SANS' top training classes. SANS 2012...

Top Mobile Security Experts Come Together to Address Some of the Toughest Mobile Security Issues including BYOD, Hacking, Mobile Vulnerabilities and Exploits BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To help InfoSec professionals better prepare for and fend off security risks associated with mobile devices, SANS Institute will host its first Mobile Device Security Summit, March 12-15 in Nashville, TN. This one-of-a-kind event brings together some of the best minds in...

More than 2,000 high school students from 32 states and 3 U.S. Territories registered for online cyber security contest East Greenbush, NY (PRWEB) December 14, 2011 The U.S. Cyber Challenge (USCC) today announced the winners of its fall Cyber Foundations competition, a national online contest for high school students designed to identify future cyber experts. More than 2,000 high school students from 32 states, 3 U.S. territories and 169 schools registered for the competition, which took...

Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) national deployment - increased security that results in substantial cyber risk reduction WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SANS Institute announced today that U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), Cyber Security Division, Cyber Security Research & Development Center has won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for building a federal cybersecurity research...

Resurrecting the promise of application white listing and network access control WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SANS Institute announced today that the National Security Agency Information Assurance Directorate and the Trusted Computing Group have won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for their innovative use of available technologies to revive the key defenses of application white listing and comply-to-connect network access control....

Security Knowledge Empowerment (SKE) program develops key security knowledge of information technology architects, enabling them to become "security sensors." WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SANS Institute announced today that Cisco has won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for developing and sharing with the IT community a scalable solution to the challenge of baking security into internal systems and into products offered to clients. (Photo:...

The Coreflood botnet Takedown - Creative and proactive steps making the Internet more secure WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SANS Institute announced today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney General's Office have won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for their innovative techniques in cyber law enforcement using the computer virus' own command and control system to disable the malicious software. (Photo:...

Achieving drastic risk reductions and rapid threat mitigation through continuous security monitoring and mitigation WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SANS Institute announced today that the U.S. Department of State Office of the Chief Information Officer has won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for significantly improving the effectiveness of the nation's cyber security for creating, deploying and sharing the Department of State's unique risk...

Infrastructure on Demand - Award-Winning Secure Cloud Initiatives in Government WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SANS Institute announced today that Los Alamos National Laboratory has won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for their innovative use of vShield and other defense tools that represent a breakthrough model for securing virtual computing and private cloud deployments. (Photo: <font size="2"...

Baking Security into the Configurations of Department of Defense Systems: Radical security improvements while lowering costs WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SANS Institute announced today that the U.S. Central Command, the CIOs of DoD, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army; and the Department of Defense Joint Consensus Working Group have jointly won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for baking security into the configurations of computers...