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I'll be teaching MGT 433 this March 23/24 in sunny Orlando as part of SANS 2012, you can also virtually attend the class without having to leave home. If your organization is planning a new security awareness program, or looking to improve an existing one, this intense two day course is for you. In addition I'm updating the course so expect new material, including better integration with standard project management practices, more advance assessment labs, a new section on APT and formalizing the approval process.

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If you are involved in security awareness sooner or later you will have to present. It can be anything from teaching fellow employees about security awareness, to briefing management on the impact of your awareness program. The problem is many of us in security are not good communicators. There is nothing more dissapointing than attending a security conference to hear your favorite security researcher present on their latest finding or newest tool, only to fall asleep five minutes into the talk because they are terrible communicators. Over the past fifteen years I've done alot of presenting and teaching, and in that time I've made a tremendous number of mistakes. My personal top ten take aways for successful presenting are

I'll be teaching MGT 433 this December 15-16 in Washington, DC as part of SANS CDI. If you or your organization is considering a security awareness program, or looking to improve an existing one, this intense two day course is for you. We are also teaching this as a simulcast, meaningyou can virtually attend the classand get the same training but without having to leave home. Based on the experience of working with numerous organizations from around the world, we will teach you step by step

Folks, I just wanted to share some learning opportunities about human issues and building effective awareness programs. Please join me as we learn together about securing the Human OS.

Securing The Human Webcast: I'll be presenting a short, one hour webcast next Wednesday, 29 June on Securing The Human. Learn what makes the Human OS so vulnerable and how to patch it.

Securing The Human Two Day Course (MGT 433): 15/16 July SANSFIRE I'll be teaching my two day course on how to build, deploy, and maintain a highly effective awareness program that is not only compliant, but

At SANS Orlando last week I presented a new SANS @Night talk called Securing The Kids. This is a new series of content focused on helping parents understand the threats their children face online and what they can do to protect them. We want our children to have the skills and experience required to be successful in the 21st century. Not only does cyber space in many ways define their social lives, but their future education and careers. However we also have to protect them against numerous cyber threats, many of which are unique to cyber space. Securing The Kids teaches parents what these threats are and how they can support and protect their children's online activities. The presentation was a huge hit