Please join us in the upcoming weeks for the following informative, free SANS webcasts that you won't want to miss!

WEBCAST 1
Virtual Roundtable Webcast
WHEN: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
FEATURING: Ed Skoudis, Mike Poor and Hal Pomeranz
https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92144
Sponsored By: Core Security Technologies http://www.coresecurity.com/

Ever want to pull a chair up to the SANS lunch table? Here's your chance to get some virtual face time with some of the "cool kids" from SANS as they discuss the latest topics on the information security threat
horizon, including new attacks to look out for and what to do about them.

Please join SANS experts Ed Skoudis, Mike Poor, and Hal Pomeranz for a virtual roundtable discussion of threats and attacks making the news and an overview of all the late-breaking security risks. You'll
also have the opportunity to ask questions and contribute your thoughts throughout the duration of the webcast.

WEBCAST 2
When You're Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail: Avoiding
the Hype and Making Good Technology Decisions
WHEN: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
FEATURING: Tom Liston
https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92589

The IT world seems particularly susceptible to a "bandwagon" mindset, where the latest tools and technologies become the "must-haves" on any new project.  As we count-down to the upcoming SANS Virtualization and Cloud Computing Summit, Tom Liston, summit chair, will walk through a five-step, no-nonsense guide to deciding if deploying a particular technology makes sense.  While this "how-to" will be aimed at two of the hottest IT technologies: virtualization and cloud computing, the lessons
learned can be applied to the "next big thing" as well.

WEBCAST 3
Managing Change and Event Monitoring for Sustainable NERC CIP Compliance
WHEN: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
FEATURING: Matthew Luallen, Mehlam Shakir, and Toney Jennings
https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92508
Sponsored By: NItroSecurity  http://www.nitrosecurity.com/ & CoreTrace
http://www.coretrace.com/

This presentation will describe Encari's interpretation of the requirements as well as the ability of Responsible Entities to maintain Cyber Asset change control and augment manual log review with
technology, such as Security Information & Event Management (SIEM).

WEBCAST 4
HP Tackles Cloud Application Security
WHEN: Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
FEATURING: Dennis Hurst
https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92428
Sponsored By: HP
https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-201_4000_100__

In this webcast, participants will learn about:

- The three most common delivery platforms for Cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
- How to manage application keys and handle sensitive information for each platform.
- How the delivery platforms impact the software development lifecycle
- How we expect hackers to approach cloud applications
- How HP can help you secure cloud applications

WEBCAST 5
Finding the Root Cause of Any Security Alert - Fast
WHEN: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
FEATURING: Joe Levy and Matthew Dieckman
https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92469
Sponsored By: Solera Networks http://www.soleranetworks.com/ and SonicWALL
http://www.sonicwall.com/

As a security administrator, your job is to quickly decide if a security alert poses a real threat to your network, how to remediate, and the priority for action. Your operational challenge is linking an alarm to
actual network activity by specific agents or users. The lack of specific data often forces security professionals to guess at the degree of exposure, or whether a breach actually occurred. Without data, your
ability to identify the scope of a security event or verify compliance with security policy is confined to a perpetual state of gray.

WEBCAST 6
Top Ten Virtualization Security Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
WHEN: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT (1700 UTC/GMT)
FEATURING: Jim Hietala, Michael Berman, and Ahmad Sallam
https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92624
Sponsored By: McAfee http://www.mcafee.com/us/ and CatBird http://www2.catbird.com/

Failure to separate duties, securely segment networks, and to recognize where the virtual meets the physical network are but some of the security mistakes organizations make when deploying virtual machine technology.  Senior SANS Analyst, Jim D. Hietala, describes how to avoid these and other security mistakes in order to prevent security incidents and exposures.