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SANS National Conferences draw a large paid attendance, with a seemingly endless selection of coordinated speakers and activities. The vendor expositions are held during the early part of the week and include various activities and sponsorship opportunities. It is the ideal way to connect directly with a highly targeted group of security and network professionals who want to learn about events shaping our industry.
In addition to receiving high-quality SANS education, attendees are evaluating and making purchasing decisions on new products and technologies to bring to their own organizations. The vendor expos can help shorten the buying cycle by being there, with the decision makers, and showing them all about your products and services.
Start Planning for these National Events today!
|Expected Paid Attendance
|SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2015
|Washington, DC US
Additional SANS Events
- Tabletop Events- Held in conjunction with SANS training conferences, these one day Regional and Local events targeted to a specific geography. SANS also offers International Tabletop events.
- Summit Series - 2 day events focused on a single current topic. Summit speakers are leading topic experts, customers as well as vendor speakers.
- Community SANS - These events feature the most popular SANS courses taught in a small class-room setting. These events provide an opportunity to reach a specific SANS community.
Print and Media Programs
- SANS Research Programs
- The SANS Analyst Whitepaper program and supporting webcast feature SANS experts working with you to create whitepapers with a powerful, independent voice in the market. Papers are published on the SANS website and include a pre-publicized webcast. Whitepapers cover a range of topics: market pain points, how-to help, security issues, product issues, technology tests and comparisons, SANS independent surveys, checklists and more.
- SANS Security Webcasts
- Present your company's product or service in front of thousands of targeted listeners with a SANS Security Webcast. SANS webcasts are marketed to all 235,000 opt-in subscribers of NewsBites and are also promoted via the SANS Web site, visited by 17,000 security professionals daily. Webcast options include Ask the Expert with a SANS certified expert, ToolTalk specific to your product specific, Internet Storm Center (ISC) a high-impact monthly webcast discussing the most recent threats, new software vulnerabilities or system exposures or a Custom Webcast meeting your specific needs and plans.
- Reading Room Whitepaper
- Post your own technical whitepaper in this special Security Reading Room, visited by 35,000 security professionals weekly, who use in excess of 2,000 unique, peer reviewed information security reports. Dozens of report categories are represented. Vendors may post technical whitepapers in the Security Reading Room. Vendor submitted whitepapers are marked with a special icon and also state that these papers have been reviewed and approved by SANS. Your whitepaper will remain in the Reading Room for one full year.
- SANS Website Banner Ads & Brochure Ads
- Online advertising via the SANS website can direct thousands of qualified prospects to your brand and special offer messages. This is one of the most popular SANS features and one of the most trafficked pages in the entire security industry. With a circulation of approximately 400,000 an ad in a SANS conference brochure is one of the most effective print media products in the marketplace.
- SANS WhatWorks™ Program
- Showcase your most powerful customer stories with the SANS independence, research, and distribution capabilities. to provide valuable reference information to CIOs and security managers looking to make a purchase. Clients of this program receive a case study, webcast, 6 to 12 months on printed poster and 6 to 12 months on the online poster. Also, you can use the case study in your marketing programs (along with the SANS WhatWorks TM logo) for 6 to 12 months in accordance with SANS specifications.
- WhatWorks™ Poster Ad
- Each year, two custom research posters (Spring and Fall) are sent to more than 200,000 SANS community members. On one side of the poster, WhatWorks sponsors can purchase ads; on the other side, other security vendors can buy advertising space. SANS will mail copies of the poster and SANS event brochure to 2,500 additional vendor customers and prospects.
- Newsletters
- SANS offers two online emails newsletters reaching an opt-in readership of over 230,000. SANS Newsbite is distributed twice each week to more than 150,000 opt-in readers interested in a high-level summary of critical, current security events. @RISK is THE consensus security alert and is distributed weekly to over 100,000 opt-in readers. @Risk first summarizes the three to eight vulnerabilities that matter most, tells what damage they do and how to protect yourself. Advertize and connect with the SANS community.
- SANS Thought Leadership Interview Series
- Thought Leadership interviews carry the weight of SANS' reputation and visionary leadership. With focus on a wide range of current and emerging security technology trends and directions, communicate your organization's vision and differentiation in a crowded market.


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Thousands of utility customers in the Valley were without power for up to several hours Friday evening following a massive dust storm, but a temporary "ground stop" for all incoming flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has been lifted.
The Salt River Project tweeted that at least 8,800 customers were without power as of 8:08 p.m., the bulk of whom are in the southeast Valley and Apache Junction area.
An outage map on SRP's website, www.srp.net, indicated less than 150 were still experiencing outages as of 9:15 p.m.
By 8 a.m. Saturday, only about 30 homes were without power across the Valley. By 2:30 p.m., all storm-related outages had been restored, SRP said.
Crew were fixing fuses in electrical systems, repairing an underground power line and performing critical maintenance in Mesa, Phoenix and cities in the West Valley. All outages are expected to be restored by 3:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
Up to 12,000 were originally without power.
As of 8:10 p.m., Sky Harbor lifted a temporary "ground stop" on inbound air traffic.
The temporary order issued at 6 p.m. meant that no new flights would be routed in from other airports until the ground stop was cleared. It affected departure times for flights heading to Phoenix and, because of connections here, delayed some outbound flights as well.
From about 5:30 p.m. until 12 News went off the air at 6:30, the Sky 12 helicopter was capturing video of a wall of dust beginning to cover parts of Casa Grande and moving north into the Valley.
Video from a news team just west of Casa Grande on Highway 84 showed extremely dark skies, rain and lightning.
Radar showed rain moving north behind the dust, said 12 News meteorologist Caribe Devine, as the dust storm continued to move north into the Valley. By 5:45, storms were active north and west of Casa Grande, with scattered rain storms and lightning south of the Valley, but little rainfall for the Phoenix area.
Visibility on the roads in the affected area was very low. Reports ranged from no visibility to 1/2 mile just south of the Valley before the storm hit the Phoenix area.
Officials advise anyone encountering blowing dust or blowing sand on the roadway to pull off the road as far as possible and put the vehicle in park. Turn the lights all the way off and keep your foot off the brake pedal.

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Jailer staff is in for change
Fewer jobs; shifts going to 12 hours
SAN ANGELO, Texas - A shortage of prospective employees who want to work in the Tom Green County Jail prompted jail administrators to change its staffing model.
"The main driving force is we had a hard time filling some of the positions," said jail Capt. Todd Allen.
The jail recently lost a number of staff members who went into law enforcement positions, and few applicants were coming forward to fill the jobs. Beginning Saturday, jail officers will work 12-hour shifts instead of the usual eight hours, allowing the number of jobs in the jail to be cut from 90 to 80 jailers. Each jail employee also will get a raise of $3,000 per year.
"We will be utilizing the funding saved from the number of people being out for an increase in jailers' salaries," County Judge Mike Brown said.
The change was brought before the county commissioners June 25 and was approved unanimously.
The title of "jail clerk" also will be eliminated, and all jail staff will be classified as jail officers.
All but two of the jail employees have a jailer's license. The two who do not have a license plan to attend school for certification in October, Allen said.
"We're mandated to maintain a certain number of jail officers at any time," he said.
In any jail, Allen said, the turnover rate tends to be high. Working as a jail officer typically is a good training ground for those who want to go into law enforcement. With problems filling the vacancies, the department decided that the best option was to reduce the number of positions, change the staffing schedule and raise pay for active employees.
"It's kind of one of the things that had to happen," Allen said. "Even ones that aren't real happy about it, most people do understand."
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