Expo Education
Quality education is a prominent feature throughout the GovSec Expop and surrounding classrooms. These FREE sessions provide civilian and military security professionals as well as federal, state and local law enforcement information critical to protecting their communities and our nation.
Use the links below to jump to full descriptions of the free education offered:
Agency Briefings
GovCyber Pavilion Theatre
Building Career Competencies and Professional Recognition
CISSP Exam Prep Clinic
Insider Threats: Challenges and Responses
Grants: Preparing your Department to Submit a Winning Application
International Realities of Cybersecurity
Security Clearance Mini Workshop
The Art of Perception
Agency Briefings
Agency Briefings enable federal agencies to provide an overview of their programs to federal, state and local security and law enforcement professionals. These agencies will also outline available resources and how to take advantage of them.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 10:15 am - 10:50 am
AB1 - FEMA's Responder Knowledge Base: How to Make Educated Purchasing Decisions
Presented by: FEMA
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 11:00 am - 11:50 am
AB2 - Transferring Excess DoD Property from Warfighter to Crimefighter
Presented by: Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO), DLA
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
AB3 - Cybersecurity Training for Federal Government IT Security Professionals
Presented by: Diplomatic Security Training Center (DSTC), Dept. of State
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
AB5 - EPA's Community-Based Water Resiliency Initiative: Critical Steps to Ensuring Community Resiliency
Presented by: EPA
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 11:45 am - 12:30 pm
AB6 - Operational Value of Threat, Risk, and Vulnerability Assessment Agency Brief
Presented by : U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Grant Programs Directorate
GovCyber Pavilion Theatre
Addressing the security of systems used to monitor, control, and safeguard our nation's critical infrastructure.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 10:15 am - 10:55 am
GC-1 Leveraging Encryption to Simplify Compliance and Lower TCO
Wedneday, March 30, 2011 - 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
GC-2 Protecting Critical Infrastructure in an Apathetic Environment
Wednesay, March 30, 2011 - 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
GC-3 Presentation by Acxiom Corp. Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
GC-4 Presentation by Dell
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 3:15 pm - 3:55 pm
GC-5 Presentation by Bayer Material Science
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:15 am - 10:55 am
GC-6 Growing Challenges Facing IT in Managing and Securing the Endpoint
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 11:15 am - 11:55 am
GC-7 Presentation by AccessData Corp
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 12:15 pm - 12:55 pm
GC-8 Powering the Accessory Rail
CISSP Exam Prep Clinic | Presented by
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 8:30 am - 11:00 am
If you have been preparing for your CISSP exam and want those important test taking tips that will increase your chances of passing, you need to attend the free CISSP Exam Prep Clinic presented by the University of Fairfax, the leading information assurance/security graduate program in the US. The CISSP Exam Prep Clinic includes 150+ test taking tips. The instructor will review over 150 sample questions from all 10 domains that are addressed in the exam.
Achieve clearance success with the Security Clearance Mini Workshop, which will help you maximize your chances of success in the security clearance process. The information prepares you to avoid common mistakes and oversights that lead to security clearance application failure and covers what you need to know to expedite your clearance process.The U.S. faces a growing shortage of InfoSec professionals holding security clearances to fight the war on cyber crime. Maintaining or obtaining a security clearance can accelerate your career in both the public and private sectors.
International Realities of Cybersecurity
Presented by the American Bar Association's Privacy & Computer Crime Committee, Section of Science & Technology Law
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
This program will discuss the international issues associated with cyber criminal activity. There is no single or simple solution, but there are some common requirements for global cybersecurity. One is a harmonized legal framework with respect to cybercrimes and common procedural rules for mutual assistance, cooperation and search and seizure of electronic evidence. Another requirement is an understanding of the issues confronted in investigating cybercrimes in order to facilitate maximum cooperation globally
Grants: Preparing your Department to Submit a Winning Application
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Presenter: Denise Schlegel, Senior Grant Consultant
Grant funders award grant contracts to police departments which can demonstrate a strong capacity to manage and implement a grant project by providing the evidence, data and key strategic planning needed to meet the application requirements. This workshop will provide the Chief and his top management the tools, resources and sound business practices needed to develop and submit a competitive winning grant application. It will also provide best practices to keep your fiscal and personnel grant commitments targeted on the front sight of your annual budget and management plans. Each participant will be provided a CD with key internet resources, tools and best practices documents.
BuildingCareer Competencies and Professional Recognition | Presented by 
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Educational Level: Intermediate and Advance
Presenter: Philip S. Deming, CPP, CFE, SPHR, President, Philip S. Deming and Associates
This presentation will describe the strategic value of pursuing one of the highly recognized designations within the international security profession as a means to enhance your professional competencies, advance your career, and seek personal achievement. As a foundation for this conversation, we will offer a view of the changing landscape for the human capital needs as to the desired standards for certain knowledge, skills and – qualifiers to measure these professional proficiencies.
Critical resource information will be provided to the attendees concerning the three (3) ASIS International certifications, inclusive of: the criteria of each certification, the eligibility requirements; the examination structure and process; the subject matter domains; and the concepts for preparing for the examination. With regard to the latter, we will engage the attendees with a “mini review” program of a domain followed by a practice examination. We will conclude this presentation with the requirements for maintaining these professional credentials and the availability of various educational programs for the continuum of “building career competencies.”
The Art of Perception - A New Perspective for Law Enforcement Professionals
Recently featured on CBS Evening News!
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Don't miss this session to improve your ability to discern the difference between perception and inference. Amy Herman, president of famous The Art of Perception program, will teach you how to enhance your observation and communication skills by learning to look at and analyze works of art.
Having successfully trained thousands of professionals in law enforcement, education and medicine, the program teaches participants to analyze, expand upon, and reconsider the skills necessary to perform their professional responsibilities.
Insider Threat: Challenges and Responses
Presented by:
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Moderator: Benjamin Frankel, Editor, Homeland Security NewsWire
Securing both facilities and data involves two levels: physical/perimeter security (fences, gates, locks, firewalls, etc.) and identification/authorization (making sure, through biometric and other means, that people are who they say they are, and that only authorized people are allowed into a facility, a secure area, or gain access to data)s). The increasing problem of insider threat now necessitates a third layer of security: making sure that known and identified personnel -- prison guards (but also prisoners), scientists in national labs, employees of the NSA, etc. -- do not bring illegal or unauthorized materials or gear with them into the facility to perform illegal activities. The panel will address this third layer of facilities and data security by assessing the scope of the problem and discussing the technologies available to address it.
Topics include:
-- Impersonation
-- Forged credentials
-- Virus-laden CD and/or USB flash drive and/or floppy
-- Smuggling out USB flash device or other media(exfiltration)
-- Smuggling in contraband, prohibited gear (infiltration)
-- Extra copy of DB backups
-- Wireless transmissions
-- Cell phone/PDA/voice recorder in classified meeting
-- Wireless telephone cameras to capture information
-- Telephone tape recording onto removable media