Boosting Cyber-Defense - Security press briefing now at 2 pm on Wednesday

[mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL COM>]

From: "Noonan, Michael D" <michael.d.noonan () intel com>


The audio-teleconference briefing and discussion on the CVE is now
scheduled for 2 pm on Wednesday.

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MITRE and Top Security Experts Announce Initiative to Boost Cyber-Defenses
September 29 Audio Teleconference Press Conference

The MITRE Corporation has joined with the CERT Coordination Center, IBM
Research, Cisco Systems and 16 other leading information security
organizations to launch a major new initiative to strengthen
cyber-defenses across industry and government.  Top security experts will
participate in a press teleconference on Wednesday, September 29, 1999, at
2:00 pm to discuss the details of the initiative:

*       Pete Tasker, Executive Director of Security and Information
        Operations, MITRE

*       Christopher Klaus, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Internet
        Security Systems

*       Stephen Northcutt, Director, Intrusion Detection Programs, SANS

*       Bill Fithen, Member of the Technical Staff, Computer Emergency
        Response Team (CERT)

If you are interested in participating in the audio-teleconference (you
may call in from anywhere), please contact: Jeff Kruger at
krugerj () fleishman com

and/or 212-453-2325.

Other initiative participants include:  AXENT Technologies, The Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization, BindView Development, Bugtraq, CyberSafe,
CERIAS/Purdue University, Harris Corp (STAT Operations), Internet Security
Systems (ISS), L-3 Network Security, Network Flight Recorder (NFR),
NTBugtraq, SANS Institute, SecurityFocus.com, Silicon Defense, and
University of California - Davis.

ISN is sponsored by Security-Focus.COM