Welcome!
"Weaving Together Security and Business Processes." The conference is hosted by the Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking (http://vascan.org) and will be held at The Mason Inn Conference Center and Hotel on George Mason University's Fairfax campus, on October 21-22, 2010. Don't miss this opportunity to hear leaders in the security field discuss current issues and to share ideas with your colleagues on effective security practices.
Presentations
Security and audit professionals from various colleges and universities will be presenting on various topic such as,
- Minimizing Zero Day Losses: An Intrusion Tolerance Approach in the Virtual Environment
- Distributed Intrusion Detection with Open Source Software and Commodity Hardwar
- Auditing the Procurement of Outsourced Systems
- Emergency Preparedness and Physical Security
- Audit’s Up Front Involvement in Business Processes
- Secure Web Applications: Open Source Software and Commodity Hardware
- How MPLS Network Virtualization Achieves Security Goals in the Campus Environment
- Business Function Process Flow Security Auditing
- A Structured Approach to Vulnerability Scanning
- Need Based Application Development
- Managing 3rd party relationships
- Protecting Sensitive Data: Policy, Process and Strategies
- SANS 434: Log Management In-Depth: Compliance, Security, Forensics, and Troubleshooting.
Our keynote speaker is Marc Sachs, the Executive Director for National Security and Cyber Policy at Verizon in Washington, D.C. Since August 2003 he has directed the all-volunteer SANS Internet Storm Center.
Have questions? Please contact vascan@gmu.edu.
Who should attend?
We believe that IT managers, IT security professionals, technical staff, and auditors from Higher Education, K-12, Government, and Law Enforcement will learn a great deal at the VA SCAN 2010 conference, and this information will help with their technology security issues.
