Information Security:
Education Organizations

Computer Security Institute (CSI) [www.gocsi.com] — A membership organization directed at serving and training information, computer, and network security professionals. CSI sponsors two conferences and exhibitions each year. CSI members receive an ALERT newsletter, the quarterly The Computer Security Journal, a Buyers Guide, and surveys.
Information Security [www.infosecuritymag.com] — The industry's leading trade publication and monthly resource for news, analysis, insight, and commentary on the information security marketplace. The magazine is provided free to qualified subscribers.
Security Wire Digest was a free Information Security newsletter delivered twice a week via e-mail. It is now replaced by Security Wire Perspectives (which also is a twice-a-week e-mail) and by the Security Wire Daily e-mail. — The latter two periodicals can be ordered through SearchSecurity.com/.
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) [www.issa.org/] — A non-profit international organization of information security professionals. ISSA provides educational forums, publications, and meetings for its dues-paying members. ISSA has both local chapters and an Annual Conference.
- The ISSA Los Angeles Chapter's web site is located at www.issa-la.org/.
MIS Training Institute [www.misti.com] — A private company that gives Information Security and audit training courses and certificate programs in major cities across the United States and overseas.
SANS Institute (SANS) [www.sans.org] — Established in 1989, SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) is a cooperative research and education organization. It provides training for more than 150,000 security professionals, auditors, system administrators, and network administrators. SANS staff includes many security practitioners in corporations, government agencies, and universities who invest hundreds of hours each year in research and teaching to help the entire information security community. Most SANS printed publications and educational programs are sold on a fee basis; however, many SANS resources, such as the following, are free.
- Over 1,612 articles in 71 Information Security categories are available at the SANS Reading Room [http://www.sans.org/reading_room/?ref=3701].
- The SANS NewsBites is a weekly high-level executive summary of security and privacy news from periodicals and the web. Each issue is delivered weekly by email [http://www.sans.org/newsletters/?ref=3711#newsbites].
- The SANS @RISK: The Consensus Security Alert report is delivered by e-mail every Monday morning. It focuses on the three to eight vulnerabilities that matter, tells what damage they do and provides corrective action data [http://www.sans.org/newsletters/?ref=3711#atrisk].
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Information Security:Education Organizations

Information Security:
Education Organizations