ADVISORY/White House Cyber Security Advisor Joins TechNet To Discuss State of Business Survivability in America.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (April 15)

RSA Conference 2003

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2003

TechNet, a network of over 200 CEOs and senior high tech executives, and White House Cyber Security Advisor Howard Schmidt will convene a news conference during the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 15 at 11:45 a.m. PT to discuss the need for public-private efforts to enhance the security of the nation's information infrastructures. -0-

What:       News Conference on the State of Business Survivability
            in America

Who:        Howard Schmidt, White House Cyber Security Adviser
            Rick White, President and CEO of TechNet
            Art Coviello, RSA Security President & CEO
            John Shaughnessy, Vice Chairman of the Internet Security
            Alliance and Senior Vice President of Visa, USA

When:       11:45 am, Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Where:      Moscone Convention Center, North Hall, Room 120,
            San Francisco

In early March, TechNet announced its CEO Cyber Security Task Force, made up of chief executives of some of the nation's leading computer networking, hardware, software, and cyber security companies. The members are working on targeted initiatives to inform cyber security policymaking, promote business survivability and cyber security practices, and support public-private efforts to protect the Internet. The TechNet Cyber Security Task Force includes executives from 3Com, Courion, Cranite, Cyber-Ark Software, Guardent, Hewlett Packard, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Qualys, Netegrity, RSA Security, Start-Up Partners, Symantec, VeriSign, TippingPoint, and Wind River Systems, among others.

TechNet is a national, bipartisan network of CEOs that promotes the growth of technology industries and the economy by building long-term relationships between technology leaders and policymakers and by advocating a targeted policy agenda. TechNet, based in Silicon Valley, has offices in Seattle, Boston, Austin, and Orange County (California).

NOTE: Conference registration is not needed for media to attend this event.