News & Events - Calendar of CloudShield Events and Speaking Engagements

Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, West 2012 is the largest event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation, shipbuilding, and more.

As an infosec professional, you dedicate yourself to providing hacker-proof security for networks, mobile devices and beyond. Attending RSA® Conference 2012 will help you keep that commitment.

Come strengthen your 2012 strategy with the latest information from industry leaders, including a global perspective from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his closing keynote address.

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) announces the 2012 Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference!

Hosted annually by the DIA Directorate for Information Management (DS) and Chief Information Officer (CIO), the conference's 2012 theme, "Advancing Mission Integration," will highlight the DIA CIO's commitment and intent to unify defense intelligence infrastructure and information sharing initiatives.

Infosecurity Europe is the only European event that enables industry professionals to gather vital information about the latest trends and developments in IT security, exchange ideas and shop for products and services to create security solutions.

Bringing together hundreds of providers showcasing the latest product and service solutions in the ever-changing IT security arena, Infosecurity Europe provides a leading platform for organisations to address constantly evolving security issues.

Infosecurity Europe provides the fastest route to market and most cost effective platform to meet face-to-face, marketing-to and influencing leading IT professionals and qualified decision makers.

The Alamo AFCEA Conference and Exposition is excited to offer two full days of expert panels, esteemed keynote speakers and excellent opportunities to meet and network with the leaders who are shaping the future of Mission Assurance. Check out some of our featured speakers and panelists.

USSTRATCOM Cyber and Space Symposium
"Space and Cyber: New Challenges, New Opportunities"

This event combines the highly successful Cyber and Space Symposia and will provide an exciting venue for information exchange among leaders in cyber and space. This Symposium will delve into tough issues while fostering innovation and collaboration between the private sector and government. Sessions will include perspectives of senior Department of Defense, U.S. and allied government, industry, and academia speakers.

The Sponsor Expo will feature McAfee's world-class partners, including some of the world's most successful businesses. This is your chance to meet with the key players of the security industry - all in one location.

The GEOINT Symposium is the nation's largest intelligence event of the year.

This year's theme is Forging Integrated Intelligence. With this in mind, GEOINT 2011 offers panels and breakout tracks on online/on-demand capabilities, human geography and socio-cultural dynamics, intelligence integration, open source GEOINT, weapons of mass destruction, crowd source intelligence, international commercial satellite imagery, intelligence in the cloud and much more.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Singapore, is proud to present the 20th GovernmentWare seminar and exhibition. This annual event, convened since 1991, will be held from 27 to 29 September 2011 at the Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Centre.

The world has become increasingly networked due to the forces of globalisation, urbanisation and technological advances. The reliance on IT for day to day business operations has significantly increased, especially for organisations where IT is not as traditionally distinct. While this has brought enormous benefits to economies and societies, cyber incidents can be equally far-reaching in their impact and consequence.

Be a part of the Air Force Association's 2011 Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition September 19th through 21st, 2011. The conference once again will be held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on the Potomac, in National Harbor, just across the river from Alexandria and minutes from downtown Washington, DC

Searching for new products, services or solutions? Look no further than the LandWarNet exhibit hall, the largest and most complete Defense, Communications and Information Technology event in the Southeast.

Join Army LTG Carroll F. Pollett, DISA director, and the entire DISA leadership for the 2011 DISA Customer & Industry Forum at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md. from August 15 to18. This year's conference theme is "Power to Connect: Enterprise within Reach."

The inaugural Cyber Security Summit will be held on 25-26 July 2011 in Canberra. Hosted by ADM events, the summit will gather Defence and National Security stakeholders to address current and emerging cyber threats to Australia's security.

The first Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) Worldwide Conference & Technology Exposition will take place at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion. The theme of this year's conference is "Converging the Enterprise". The DI2E is the logical integration of the successes of the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) and Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) Enterprises to support our defense, national, and international partners with all-source intelligence and counterintelligence.

The 2011 DI2E Worldwide Conference and Technology Demonstration brings together developers, program offices, and users to focus on how to best deliver a professional, fully integrated, and seamless Enterprise. This Enterprise will provide the best intelligence, counterintelligence, and security information under any condition or circumstance, whenever and wherever, in support of the warfighter, coalition and the national intelligence requirements.

The theme of the inaugural Forum is Cyber Intelligence Unclassified Tradecraft. For two days, AFCEA Intelligence will gather some of the Nation's leading authorities on intelligence and cyber to explore how unclassified intelligence tradecraft and a public/private partnership can help to strengthen cyber defense. Attendees will learn not only about the threat, but how analytic methods can effectively be leveraged against all cyber unclassified data sets, thereby more effectively identifying, understanding and warning of developing threat vectors.

This is not just another cyber conference! This one is specifically focused on how intelligence collection, data processing, and analytic tradecraft can operationalize our cyber defenses and missions as never before.

For the first time, the Extreme Cyber Conference will feature a cyber-related exposition. Exhibitors will be in an unclassified area within the lobby of the Research and Engineering Building during the first day of the conference. Conference attendees will be encouraged to visit the exhibitors during their designated break times and lunch, which are built into the conference agenda.

About the Event:
This classified conference, hosted by the NSA Threat Operations Center (NTOC) and Central Security Service (CSS), will provide an opportunity for approximately 300 Cyber practitioners across the United States Government to collaborate on Cyber capabilities by presenting opportunities and experiences, and sharing mission success stories.

The Annual AT&T Cyber Security Conference - in its 13th year in 2011 - is a well established security event with a significant following and a strong leading edge technical content.

The 2011 conference scheduled for May 18 in Middletown, NJ, will feature prominent industry and AT&T security experts presenting the latest advances in cyber security - including a keynote by Dr. Edward Amoroso, AT&T Senior VP and Chief Security Officer. Ed provided a strategic view into the constantly morphing aspects of cyber security and its impact across all aspects of business.

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) announces the 2011 Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference!

Hosted annually by the DIA Directorate for Information Management (DS) and Chief Information Officer, DoDIIS Worldwide provides a unique opportunity for defense intelligence community members and industry peers to come together for knowledge sharing, training and discussion of current and future information technology (IT) challenges and requirements.

The conference's 2011 theme, Secure and Collaborative Intelligence in Defense of the Nation, highlights the DIA Chief Information Officer's commitment to developing and maintaining secure and reliable networks for Department of Defense personnel, services and information technology customers. Through partnerships and collaboration, the intelligence community facilitates the secure collection, analysis and presentation of actionable intelligence to warfighters and decision makers in a timely, comprehensive manner.

Infosecurity Europe, where information security professionals address the challenges of today whilst preparing for those of tomorrow at the No 1 industry event in Europe.

Register FREE to attend today and join over 12,500 information security professionals for 3 days at Earl's Court , London from 19th - 21st April 2011.

The Air Force Association is proud to announce its newest conference, the "2011 CyberFutures Conference and Technology Exhibition" to be held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on the Potomac, in National Harbor, Maryland, just across the river from Alexandria and minutes from downtown Washington, DC.

AFA's CyberFutures: New Strategies for a New Domain will focus on the challenges the new domain of cyber space brings to every organization. Senior government leaders worry if they are organized for the imperatives of mission success. Agencies, critically dependent on mission systems with Internet connectivity worry that they are vulnerable to denial of service. Defense activities face the challenge of balancing B2B access with rigid security requirements. And industry tries to fine tune its capabilities with the needs of a customer set needing to always stay a step ahead of hackers, bad actors, and technology that "ages" in 18-month cycles. This unique symposium will attract the top echelon of senior leadership and provide a venue for an unprecedented sharing of views and ideas.

Bring More Armor to the Battle: Defending Against Advanced Threats

Learn more about the Fidelis-CloudShield network security solution by attending the upcoming webinar,
"Bring More Armor to the Battle: Defending Against Advanced Threats". at 2:00 p.m. EST on March, 31, 2011.

Speakers:
Kurt Bertone, Vice President & Security Strategis, Fidelis Security Systems
Tim Peterson, Solution Architect, CloudShield

Register for this Free Webinar

HIMSS-2011 Conference, the Annual Conference & Exhibition of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society will be held from February 20 - 24 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
HIMSS-2011 is special because HIMSS celebrates its silver anniversary this year culminating at the 2011 annual conference. HIMSS was founded as the Hospital Management Systems Society in 1961 and it's first conference was first held in 1962.

In information security, you're trained to expect the unexpected. Changes occur in a nanosecond. As the information security field continues to grow in importance and influence in public and private industry, RSA® Conference plays an integral role in educating and connecting security professionals across the globe. Stay on top by staying one step ahead - attend RSA Conference!

RSA Conference is the most comprehensive forum in information security offering enterprise and technical professionals one-stop learning. Learn about the latest trends and technologies, get access to new best practices, and gain insight into the practical and pragmatic perspectives on the most critical technical and business issues facing you today.

The 2011 Military Health System (MHS) Conference focus is on sharing knowledge and achieving breakthrough performance in health-care delivery, research, education and training. Each day features a specific educational theme with all plenary and breakout sessions aligned to furthering the goals of the Quadruple Aim and the associated Strategic Imperatives.

The 10th Annual DoD Cyber Crime Conference scheduled for 21-28 January 2011, welcomes submission of abstracts for the purpose of presenting a presentation, workshop or panel discussion during the conference in the areas of cyber crime investigations, digital forensics, cyber crime law, information assurance, system administration, e-discovery, and research and development.

Server Design Summit is the only event focused entirely on the $40 billion server market. And it is the first event to deal with "Bringing Servers into the Cloud Computing Era".

The 2010 CIP Congress theme is Manage Risk With Resilience. The goal ofthis year's Congress is to provide practitioners in the critical infrastructure security community with solutions, best practices and information so that they can resist, respond and reconstitute their operations in the face of future threats. The event will feature plenary as well as number of breakout sessions in various tracks centered on disciplines such as cyber security, physical security, business resiliency and information sharing partnerships.

The GEOINT 2010 Symposium promises to bring together an exciting line-up of speakers building on the dialogue from the past year's highly acclaimed events. Attendees will have a unique opportunity to hear advice from leading experts, share best practices and uncover the latest developments from government, military and private-sector leaders through an exhibit hall of more than 100,000 square feet filled with cutting-edge technologies.

The much awaited and forward thinking ADIPEC Conference has been finalised. A record 1050 abstracts have been submitted for the conference (254 more than 2008) with 262 speakers from 33 different countries selected to participate in 37 technical sessions, 3 poster sessions, 5 panel sessions and 1 executive plenary sessions.

The theme for the MILCOM 2010 conference is "Next Decade of Military Communications". MILCOM is the premier international conference for military communications and attracts a very impressive array of participants with high-level attendance from government, military, industry and academia. MILCOM 2010 gives industry the opportunity to promote communications to all branches of the armed forces, Department of Defense, federal government, and the heads of multi-national forces from around the globe.

Join us for the 25th annual TechNet Asia-Pacific conference entitled: "C2 of Cyberspace - Key to Asia-Pacific's Multinational Operations" which will be held on October 26-28, 2010 at the Sheraton Waikiki & Royal Hawaiian Hotels in Honolulu, HI. This event is Co-Sponsored by AFCEA International and AFCEA Hawaii.

Combining the expertise of its security experts, the scale and reliability of its global IP network and the innovation of AT&T Labs, AT&T is giving businesses some of the most powerful weapons available today in their battle against cyber security attacks. The conference showcases AT&T's leadership in helping businesses, large and small, manage the increasingly complex and critically important security of their IT networks and assets.

ArcSight Protect '10 is where the greatest minds in security come to meet, learn and collaborate to stay ahead of the surging threat of cybercrime. This is an unparalleled opportunity to immerse yourself in the latest knowledge and technology advances for protecting your organization and bringing your security posture to unprecedented heights.

The National Security Agency invites you to attend the first NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition hosted by the Trusted Computing Division of the NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC), in partnership with the High Assurance Platform™ (HAP) Program Office. The theme for this year's event is Using the High Assurance Platform® to Create Security in a Connected World.

The Fourth Annual Conference will provide in-depth analysis and practical insights into the nation's homeland security. This conference is the premier forum for government and industry to foster the partnerships necessary to protect the United States from the terrorism and disasters we face.

With an increasingly complex, evolving threat landscape to protect, a secure infrastructure is more important than ever. Regardless of the sector you work in, it is critical to understand the threat landscape to build an effective incident management and coordination capability that can accommodate applicable Legal and policy issues and initiatives. You can shape an effective response capability to manage tomorrow's risks in cyberspace - starting here.

You are invited to attend the Thirteenth Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference and Exhibition that will take place at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, from 16 to 19 August 2010. The conference and exhibition is sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association -Tennessee Valley Chapter, the Air Space and Missile Defense Association, and the Air Defense Artillery Association - Redstone Chapter.

The 2009 LandWarNet Conference is the premier forum to bring Government and Industry together to openly communicate commercial best business practices and government implementations.

4th Annual Unified Cross Domain Management Office Conference to be held in Boston, MA .

In this event, we will discover how the players of the ecosystem will look at opportunities and overcome challenges for Mobile Cloud Computing. We will learn from expert view points and opinions on how we can strategize and draw blue prints of what Mobile Cloud Computing should be. And we will examine the business models that will make your Mobile Cloud Computing business reach its real and full potential. Mark your calendars, 14-15 July 2010, SINGAPORE.

Hosted at: National Air & Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OHIO
Theme: "Influence Through IO: The Interagency and Coalition Imperative"
To conduct an Information Operations campaign, regardless of phase of operations, requires the refinement, synchronization, and integration of multiple elements to influence an audience and its capabilities. Critical to any influence operation is the ability of the Department of Defense to work in concert with the interagency and coalition partners to achieve national and coalition goals and objectives.

What is the DISA Customer Partnership Conference all about?
The annual DISA Customer Partnership Conference is the premier DoD IT conference bringing together military services, combatant commands, industry, senior decision-makers, and subject-matter experts, who openly communicate and share information that is critical to helping the DoD achieve mission success.

NCSI's conferences convene individuals from Government and Industry into collaborative communities that produce actionable outcomes and tangible results. Attendees of our events are consistently pleased with the ample opportunities to communicate, collaborate and network with their peers.

West 2010: "Smart Power: Does the QDR Get It Right?"
Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, West 2010 is the largest event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation, shipbuilding, and more. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to engage the military and industry leaders who are designating warfighting strategies and operational platforms.

The United States European Command (USEUCOM) Director for Intelligence and the Joint Intelligence Operations Center Europe invites you to participate in the USEUCOM Intelligence Summit, taking place February 15-17, 2010 in Heidelberg, Germany.

The theme for the summit is: "Building Partnerships-Linking Nations" and it will bring together working staff-level US and European mission partner capability planners, program managers, intelligence producers, end-users, and subject matter experts from government, military, law enforcement, academia, private sector, and leading edge technology organizations to discuss and determine ways to improve Intelligence-Sharing and Collaboration capabilities that address common challenges in the Regional and International Security Environment.

Intelligence Support Systems for Lawful Interception, Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Gathering
ISS World MEA is the world's largest gathering of Middle East and African Law Enforcement, Intelligence and Homeland Security Analysts and Telecom Operators responsible for lawful interception, electronic investigations and network Intelligence gathering. ISS World Programs present the methodologies and tools to bridge the chasms from lawful intercept data gathering to information creation to investigator knowledge to actionable intelligence.

Defending America, CYBERSPACE 2010 Symposium
Formerly known as Defending America, SpaceComm, is sure to become the premier event in the west to learn about the most current cyberspace issues facing our nation. The symposium theme, The Blueprint for Cyber Integration, is drawing speakers and participants in government and industry leadership positions from Intelligence, Air Force Space, Service C4 leaders, Homeland Defense and Security Operators and Army Space. Join us 12 - 14 January 2010, at the Broadmoor Hotel at THE venue where you will hear first hand about the critical cyberspace issues facing our country.