Providing Essential Tools and Workable Strategies to Overcome the Challenges of Plant Turnarounds in the Region Specifically designed to address the critical issues identified by the turnaround community with strategic and practical takeaways: Improve your safety results with our three safety sessions from Suncor, Syncrude and Jacobs Industrial Services Ltd. Best practices on how Suncor uses a Military Echelon System to manage the on-site logi...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Web application attacks, along with attacks targeting DNS (Domain Name Server) infrastructure, represent some of the most critical threats to organizations today. These attacks target a wide range of organizations and can cause downtime, loss of confidential information and revenue, drive up bandwidth costs, and severely impact an organization’s reputation. In December 2012, DNS Amplification atta...

Mark your calendars for February 25-26, 2013 for ACG's National Capital Annual Strategic Growth Conference and DealSource Join 350 financial and strategic dealmakers from around the country at this year’s 19th annual Strategic Growth Conference and DealSource. Maximize your networking and connect with senior level industry leaders Boost deal flow and meet the best financing sources Access the latest deal strategies and market trends ACG...

New Features to Increase Your Analytical Productivity Your tried and true Analyst's Notebook and its family have undergone major improvements since IBM took over. Spend two hours with us over lunch on Monday, February 25th, and get the latest information on Analyst's Notebook. IBM recently launched a new product to go with ANB called ChartRipper - a little app that lets you ingest old chart data in seconds, send the data to a database, and the...

Microsoft Lync is becoming increasingly common in enabling federal agency unified communications and collaboration within the single agency enterprise and multi-agency federating. It provides a consistent, single client experience for presence, instant messaging, voice, video and an easy to use virtual meeting experience.This rich, unified communication brings cyber security challenges, including real-time content monitoring and alerting, agen...

Microsoft SharePoint is revolutionizing the way organizations work together. With its latest release, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, the platform is positioned to take organizations to the next level, beyond use as a central document repository for more advanced initiatives like enterprise content management. However, as SharePoint’s usage evolves and grows, major challenges must be addressed regarding the platform’s scalability...

F5 BIG-IP v11.3 Update TMOS v11.3 is an important release from F5 and represents some significant additions in capability for the entire BIG-IP product suite. Join us to learn about the new features of TMOS 11.3 and how to best implement these new capabilities in your environment. See a live demonstration of F5 APM's newSecurity Assertion Markup Language (SAML) capabilities along with the unveiling of the new firewall user interface. Join F5 N...

Enterprise level cyber attacks continue to increase dramatically. Anyone directly using the internet exposes their IP address and network identity to potentially unwanted scrutiny and/or attack. Typical government systems are fixed, static, easily located, and thus more vulnerable to attack. NetAbstraction is a cloud-based service that protects customer identities, varies access routing, and provides enhanced security capabilities to safeguard...

F5 Army TechTalkSecure Your Applications, Simplify Authentication, and Consolidate InfrastructureWhether you have legacy or enterprise applications, authentication, application security, and remote access are a challenge to supporting an agency's enterprise and its customers. F5 improves application performance and simplifies enterprise architecture, while reducing the total cost of ownership of your solution. This is your last chance to join...

Join us to learn how Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL), including the KVM Hypervisor, has been awarded the highest level of assurance for an unmodified commercial operating system, the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+. Security is a top priority at Red Hat and we are very excited that RHEL 6 is among the industry’s most certified operating systems. Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of standards used by the...