SANS Institute to Hold Security Leadership Summit in Boston

BETHESDA, Md., March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute today announced its inaugural Security Leadership Summit to take place in Boston, MA April 30 – May 1. Aimed at CISOs, security operations managers and those working to become cybersecurity managers, this unique event will pair industry and government CISOs with SANS' top security experts for two days of informative, interactive and career-enhancing sessions.

"This event will follow the Critical Security Controls effort model in bringing together leading industry CISOs and SANS security experts to lead 'What Works' focused sessions addressing the most pressing challenges security managers at all levels are facing," said John Pescatore, director of Emerging Trends, SANS Institute. "Attendees will learn about tools and techniques for threat sharing that actually lead to reduced data breaches, awareness/education programs that result in measurable reduction in successful phishing attacks, metrics and strategies that convince management to fund new security initiatives and much more. Attendees will go back to work with the leverage needed to shift the balance from compliance-driven security to business-driven security."

The summit brings together some of the industry's top cyber security experts as they share how to take back control, convince management to increase security budgets, new controls for emerging technologies, and lessons learned. Included among the impressive list of speakers are:

• Jim Routh, CISO of Aetna
• Larry Wilson, CISO of UMASS
• Joel Younts, CISO of Advance Auto Parts
• Alan Paller, founder and research director, SANS Institute
• Tony Sager, director, SANS Institute
• John Pescatore, director of Emerging Technologies, SANS Institute

The summit will be collocated with SANS security management and SANS' Critical Security Controls training courses taking place May 2 - 7. For more information on the summit, including a complete list of speakers and discussion overviews, or to register, please visit: http://www.sans.org/info/155970

About SANS Institute
The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest source for world-class information security training and security certification in the world, offering over 50 training courses each year. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, is a certification body featuring over 27 hands-on, technical certifications in information security. SANS offers a myriad of free resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects, research reports, and newsletters; it also operates the Internet's early warning system—the Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners, representing varied global organizations from corporations to universities, working together to help the entire information security community. (www.SANS.org)

SOURCE SANS Institute