6th Annual IT Security Automation Conference

The 6th Annual IT Security Automation Conference, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, and Defense Information Systems Agency, will focus on the breadth and depth of automation principles and technologies designed to support automation requirements across organizations in multiple sectors. This 3-day event includes tutorials, conference proceedings, workshops, and a vendor expo. Topics include using security automation in support of healthcare IT and cloud computing, using security automation tools and technologies to ease the technical burdens of policy compliance, and innovated uses of automation across the enterprise in both Federal Government and industry applications. Security automation leverages standards and specifications to reduce the complexity and time necessary to manage vulnerabilities, measure security, and ensure compliance, freeing resources to focus on other areas of the IT infrastructure.

The conference will provide public and private sector executives, security managers and
staffstaff, Information Technology (IT) professionals, and developers of products and
services with a common understanding for using specific open standards and new security
technologies across various domains of interest including:

• Health Information Technology (IT)/HealthInsurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• DoD Infrastructure Strategy, Vulnerability Identification, and Remediation
• Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
• Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
• Software Assurance
• Cloud Computing
• Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) implementations and content

Distinguished speakers from Government and Industry

Howard Schmidt, White House (invited)

Cita Furlani, NIST (invited)

Tim Grance, NIST (invited)

Tony Sager, NSA (invited)

Topics

• U.S. Government Configuration Baseline
• Federal Desktop Core Configuration
• Emerging Standards and Specifications
• SCAP Validated Tools
• Content Validation
• Innovative Case Studies