MARCH

SANS 2007
http://www.sans.org/sans2007/
March 29-April 6
San Diego, Calif.

The SANS Institute's annual event offers training to help security managers acclimate to the demand for risk management skills. For the first time, the conference offers a combination of SANS' top four one-day legal classes taught by Ben Wright. The SANS Future Visions and Decisions Summit makes its first appearance at the conference, while the SANS Quiz Show returns.

Smart Defense Seminar
www.events.techtarget.com/sd/
April 18; Boston, Mass.
April 24; Dallas, Texas
April 26; Minneapolis

This three-city, one-day seminar will enable you to best use your technologies and policies to thwart the latest threats and justify your intrusion defense investments. Technical contributor and senior partner of Opus One, Joel Snyder, will focus on network-based defenses. He'll outline key components of a sound perimeter defense strategy and how to manage an intrusion defense infr...

MAY

DallasCon 2007
www.dallascon.com
May 7-12
Dallas, Texas

Attend training sessions including hacking, VoIP, Web application and wireless security, and earn credits in CISSP-specific classes.

Gartner Compliance & Risk Management
www.gartner.com
May 9-11
New Orleans, La.

Gartner adds a compliance and risk management conference to its lineup of events. Sessions will focus on risk and performance, compliance and control, and technology and services.

Interop Las Vegas 2007
www.interop.com
May 20-25
Las Vegas, Nev.

Interop Las Vegas features a CSO Boot Camp, which will cover topics like developing and implementing a security program, promoting a secure development culture, metrics, vendor management and offshoring, standards, treating security like a business and more. Speakers include Al Kirkpatrick, CSO First American Corp., and Jim Routh, CSO Depository Trust Clearing Corp.