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The Security Professionals Conference will be held face-to-face in St. Louis, April 15-17, and online, April 16-17. This year's meeting is organized around six themes, identified directly by the security professionals community: assess and protect; detect and respond; strategic security; privacy; career development; and HEISC and partners.
Successful Mentoring Relationships
Open to all Security Professionals Conference participants, this session will cover important mentoring resources, benefits, styles, and functions. Learn More >
- Date/Time: Monday, April 15, from 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. (CT)
Volunteer
Convening a session is an easy way to get involved and meet people. View the list of sessions that still need a convener.
Face-to-Face Meeting Activities
Tuesday Joint Reception: One of the most valuable aspects of this conference is the opportunity to connect face-to-face with fellow attendees. This year you'll also have the opportunity to connect with attendees from the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference and the Advanced Core Technologies Initiative Annual Meeting. Join us for the Tuesday Joint Reception from 5:45-6:45 p.m. (CT), where you can relax over food and drinks, get to know your colleagues, and discuss enterprise security and infrastructure issues. Learn more>
Mentoring: The 2013 Security Professionals Conference Program Committee is launching a mentoring program for new security managers, directors, and CISOs. Attendees interested in participating can sign up as a mentee (or mentor) during the conference registration process. Additional career development, mentoring, and community building opportunities will be available at Security 2013. Learn more >
REN-ISAC Member Meeting: For the seventh consecutive year, the REN-ISAC Member Meeting will take place immediately following the Security Professionals Conference. A detailed agenda is now available. Learn more >
Online meeting Orientation Session
Technical Requirements
View the technical requirements page to confirm that you have the appropriate equipment and software installed on the computer you plan to use.
Online Meeting Resources
Adobe Connect Home Base: The Adobe Connect virtual room will be open a day early, on April 15, so you can test your credentials. Participants will receive their username/password on April 12; if you register after April 12, we’ll send you a personal e-mail. We’ll conduct the exclusive online sessions and post a link to each webcast in this web conferencing environment. All sessions will be available in real time or on-demand as your schedule permits.
Team Participation: We encourage you to participate as a team. To make it easy to host the online meeting, EDUCAUSE On Campus provides helpful information and resources to plan, promote, host, facilitate, and evaluate your campus event. Learn more>
Session Types
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| Preconference Seminars: Preconference seminars are half-day or full-day sessions available at the face-to-face meeting. Separate registration is required. | ✔ |
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| General Sessions: These keynote sessions feature experts in cybersecurity and privacy, are professionally streamed live for online conference attendees, and are available on demand for postsession access for face-to-face registrants. They will be published, along with the Mp3 and Mp4 files, in the EDUCAUSE public library and will be available for at least three years. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Discussion Sessions: A facilitator or facilitators knowledgeable about an information security hot topic leading a discussion of interest to security and privacy professionals. | ✔ |
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| Interactive Presentation Sessions: Share topics of community interest through an innovative, thought-provoking format that encourages attendee active learning and participation from theater-style seating. Example strategies include creating a best practices document, checklist for developmental work, or a framework for establishing workgroups to guide attendee participation.
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| Panel and Point/Counterpoint Sessions: Multiple speakers, each offering a perspective on an issue or set of issues, with ample time for participant feedback. Although session interaction primarily takes place between presenter role-play and active dialogue, participant feedback and response to issues is encouraged using polls and Q&A. One session is professionally streamed during every time slot. Webcasts are available live and on-demand for the online audience and on-demand for postsession access for face-to-face registrants. After 90 days, they will be published, along with the Mp3 and Mp4 files, in the EDUCAUSE public library and will be available for at least three years. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Postconference Seminars: Postconference seminars are half-day sessions available at the face-to-face meeting. Separate registration is required. | ✔ |
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| Exclusive Online Sessions: These interactive sessions with experts on current topics are exclusively available live and on demand for the online audience for 90 days then published in the conference proceedings. |
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Program Committee
The Security Professionals Conference is informed, planned, and organized by security professionals who are engaged, passionate, and experienced in the selected theme. Thank you to the Security Professionals Conference 2013 Program Committee.
