Security Awareness Summit Roundup

Folks, we wanted to share a friendly follow-up on the Security Awareness Summit this week. We had over 130 security awareness officers from around the world and numerous industries come to share their lessons learned. We designed the summit for maximum interaction, to include a 'show-n-tell' table where people could share their awareness materials, attendee lightning talks, long breaks and round tables organized by industries. In addition we had six amazing speakers: Cheryl Conley from Lockheed Martin, Lance Hayden from Cisco, Cathy Click from FedEx, Jon Homer from Idaho National Labs, Dan deBeaubien from MTU and Matt Beland from Davis Wright Tremaine.

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be posting more about each of the talks and the Summit. You can download their presentations from https://files.sans.org/summit/secaware14/. In addition, we will be holding several security awareness summits next year, to include Australia in March and London in July. Stay tuned for more information, its going to be an exciting year next year!

About the Author

Lance Spitzner

Director, SANS Security Awareness

Lance Spitzner has over 20 years of security experience in cyber threat research, security architecture, awareness and training. He helped pioneer the fields of deception and cyber intelligence and founded the Honeynet Project. In addition, Lance has published three security books, consulted in over 25 countries and helped over 350 organizations build programs to manage their human risk. Lance is a frequent presenter, serial tweeter ( @lspitzner ) and works on numerous community security projects. Mr. Spitzner served as an armor officer in the Army's Rapid Deployment Force and earned his MBA from the University of Illinois.