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 has over 20 years of security experience in cyber threat research, awareness and training. He invented the concept of honeynets, founded the Honeynet Project and helped pioneer the field of cyber intelligence. Lance has published three security books, consulted in over 25 countries and helped hundreds of organizations establish mature security awareness programs. Lance serves on the Board for the NCSA, is a frequent presenter, serial tweeter ( @lspitzner ) and works on numerous community security projects. He served as an armor officer in the Army's Rapid Deployment Force and earned his MBA from the University of Illinois.