ADVISORY/Media Alert: 10th Annual Gartner IT Security Summit.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Mon.-Wed. (June 7-9)

Gartner IT Security Summit 2004

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What: Gartner IT Security Summit 2004
When: June 7-9, 2004
Where: Washington, D.C., at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

The Bottom Line: Unrivaled in size, scope and significance, Gartner IT
Security Summit hits the sweet spot between strategic planning and
tactical advice. It covers new and emerging technologies, as well as
policy, planning and compliance issues. Join our team of renowned
analysts, along with innovative CIOs and CEOs, industry experts, and
world-class technology providers for this 3-day forum on the state of
IT security today.

Attendees will hear advice and analysis on topics ranging from:

    --  Emerging technologies and new opportunities for ensuring a
        secure environment
    --  The challenge of compliance, security management and privacy
    --  The latest take on which security vendors and products can be
        trusted
    --  What works and what doesn't, straight from IT's trenches
    --  Critical infrastructure protection, disaster recovery and
        business continuity planning
    --  In a special session called Crossfire - Should the Government
        Regulate CyberSecurity, Tucker Carlson, co-host of CNN's
        Crossfire and Bill Press, nationally syndicated columnist for
        the Chicago Tribune and political analyst and contributor on
        MSNBC, will debate the government's role in regulating
        information security.

Keynote Speakers:

    --  Catch Me If You Can presented by Frank Abagnale, Author and
        Consultant - Once defined as a con man extraordinare, Frank
        Abagnale has become of the world's leading experts on document
        fraud. His youthful experiences as a master forger and
        impostor were chronicled in the Steven Spielberg film Catch Me
        If You Can. Abagnale believes that punishment for fraud and
        recovery of stolen funds are so rare, that prevention is the
        only viable course of action. Join him as he recounts a
        fascinating life's journey from elusive criminal to security
        expert.

    --  Hossein Eslambochi, President, AT&T Global Networking
        Technology Services, AT&T CTO & CIO - Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi
        will discuss AT&T's approach to the increasing level of threat
        impacting businesses using the Internet, and revolutionary
        innovations from AT&T Labs that shift the primary focus on
        identifying and preventing an attack at its source, rather
        than detection and remediation after its distribution.

    --  The Silver Bullet - How Technology Can Protect Privacy and
        Security at the Same Time, presented by Jeffrey Rosen,
        Professor at George Washington University Law School; Editor
        of Legal Affairs for The New Republic - This presentation will
        explore the ways that nearly all the technologies of
        identification and authentication proposed for national
        security and corporate use can be designed in ways that
        protect both privacy and security. Participants will discuss
        concrete examples of better and worse designs for technologies
        of data mining and identification.

    --  Keynote Session: Cybersecurity -- The Reign of Disorder,
        presented by Bruce Sterling, Visionary Technology Writer;
        Futurist and Cultural Critic In his presentation Sterling will
        argue that the "disorder" he described in his 1992 book, The
        Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier,
        has never gone away. Sterling will also describe the driving
        forces of this mayhem, what needs to be done to weed that out,
        and the likely consequences if global civilization fails to
        get a coherent grip on the electronic forces it has unleashed.

Registration: Attendees can register by visiting
www.gartner.com/us/itsecurity or by calling 1800-778-1997 or
203-316-6757.

Press can register free of charge by e-mailing Maria DiMasi at
[e-mail] or at [e-mail].

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