REMINDER/White House Cyber Security Advisor Joins TechNet To Discuss State of Business Survivability in America.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REMINDER...for Tuesday (April 15) RSA Conference The RSA Conference is a Cryptography-related conference held annually in the San Francisco Bay Area. The RSA Conference started in 1991 as a forum for cryptographers to gather and share the latest knowledge and advancements in the area of Internet security. 2003 PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 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 RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and Japan. RSA organizes the annual RSA conference. 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 (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Cyber Security Task Force The Cyber Security Task Force is organized under the department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada. Jane Billings, Assistant Deputy Minister, is the current Cyber Security Task Force Secretariat. , 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 pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: , promote business survivability sur·viv·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of surviving: survivable organisms in a hostile environment. 2. That can be survived: a survivable, but very serious, illness. 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. |
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