Hacker Halted USA, October 21-27 in Miami, is the EC-Council's flagship IT security event for both technical experts and C-Level executives.  It hosts lots of technical training courses and a two-day conference with exhibits.  The conference track themes include cloud security, SCADA, and timely topics chosen by peer review and input from 450 training companies worldwide.  Linux Journal subscribers can receive a $100 discount on the two-day conference or the six-day Training/Conference Package by inserting the code HHMP8 when prompted.