I speak at more conferences every October than any other month. This month has been crazy so far, and I can scarcely remember being home more than two or three days at a time since mid-September. Many of the conferences at which I have spoken have had excellent presentations and panel discussions. At the same time, I fear that some of these conferences have gone in the wrong direction. Why?
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I just went back and looked over all the blog postings I have written over the years, only to discover that I never wrote even one about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I admit that I have some biases about NIST, and that they are all positive. When the DOE CIAC incident response team that I started and managed was a fledgling entity, no US government agency or group stood behind CIAC more than did NIST. The major players there with whom I dealt at that time included Lynn McNulty, Stu Katze, Denny Steinauer, Marianne Swanson, John Wack and Lisa Carnahan. Afterwards retired Air Force officer Tim Grance came on the scene, and he added a special dimension of leadership.
DR. GENE SCHULTZ WILL TEACH A NEW SANS INCIDENT RESPONSE MANAGEMENT COURSE OCT. 14-15 IN BALTIMORE
Dr. Gene Schultz, Emagined Security’s Chief Technology Officer, will be teaching a new SANS course, Incident Response Management, October 14 – 15 in Baltimore, California. If you are an incident response or information security manager or are involved in highly related functions such as business continuity or disaster recovery management or IT audit, there is a good chance that this course is for you! Its course content is as follows: Read more…
