ADVISORY/National Cyber Security Partnership to Launch Web Site.

Assignment Desks/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (March 18)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Coalition of Leading Business Associations to Contribute Wide-Ranging Expertise and Resources to Implementing National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace 

WHAT:   The National Cyber Security Partnership (NCSP) will launch its
        web site and unveil two of five pending reports that are the
        product of task forces created last December during the
        National Cyber Security Summit. The Summit was conducted
        jointly by the NCSP and the Department of Homeland Security,
        for the purpose of gathering the best experts in cyber
        security from business, academia and government to develop
        recommendations for implementing the priority challenges posed
        in the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Each of the
        NCSP associations have managed the task forces in a
        secretariat role, ensuring the work flow stayed on task and on
        schedule for concluding the first phase of their work by March
        2004.

WHO:    NCSP is led by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the
        Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), TechNet
        and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in voluntary partnership with
        academicians, CEOs, federal government agencies, and industry
        experts.

WHEN:   2 p.m. EST
        Thursday, March 18, 2004

WHERE:  NCSP Web site: www.cyberpartnership.org

NCSP Task Forces

Following the release of the 2003 White House National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and the National Cyber Security Summit, NCSP was established as a voluntary public-private partnership to develop shared strategies and programs to better secure and enhance America's critical information infrastructure. The partnership manages the activities of five critical task forces, which are led by an NCSP Secretariat and appointed co-chairs. Task force members include a range of subject matter experts including academicians, CEOs, federal officials and industry experts. The five individual task forces and their report deadlines and contact information are as follows:

    --  Awareness for Home Users and Small Businesses - March 18, 2004
        --  Secretariat - Thomas Donohue, President and CEO, U.S.
            Chamber of Commerce
        --  Contact - Scott Algeier, U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
            [e-mail]

    --  Cyber Security Early Warning - March 18, 2004
        --  Secretariat - Harris Miller, President and CEO,
            Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)
        --  Contact - Bob Cohen, ITAA, [e-mail]

    --  Technical Standards and Common Criteria - March 31, 2004
        --  Secretariat - Rick White, President and CEO, TechNet
        --  Contact - Leslie Saul, TechNet, [e-mail]

    --  Security Across the Software Development Life Cycle - April 6,
        2004
        --  Secretariat - Robert Holleyman, President and CEO,
            Business Software Alliance (BSA)
        --  Contact - Jeri Clausing, BSA, [e-mail]

    --  Corporate Governance - April, 6, 2004
        --  Secretariat - Rick White, President and CEO, TechNet
        --  Contact - Leslie Saul, TechNet, [e-mail]

For additional information about NCSP, please contact Teresa Dingboom at 202-715-1561 or [e-mail]. For specific information about individual task forces, please refer to the contact listed for each task force Secretariat.