DHS plans cybersecurity summit

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Government Computer News
11/11/03
DHS plans cybersecurity summit
By Wilson P. Dizard III

Officials in the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection 
Directorate of the Homeland Security Department plan to announce details of 
the upcoming Cyber Security Summit soon, a department spokesman said.

The summit, which assistant secretary for IAIP Robert Liscouski first 
discussed in September, will be held in the San Francisco Bay area, 
directorate spokesman Donald Tighe said.

Additional cybersecurity meetings will occur before and after the main 
event on Dec. 3, Tighe said. "We are still finalizing plans" for the 
location of the conference and the officials who will attend, he said.

Amit Yoran, director of the directorate's National Cyber Security Division, 
will take a leading role at the conference.

"The reason that industry and government need to work together in two-way 
conversations on cyber and IT infrastructure security ... is to determine 
for both sides what opportunities we have and what obligations we have," 
Tighe said.

"We will be announcing goals and plans as we get closer to it," Tighe said 
of the conference.

Entrust Inc. of McLean, Va., issued a statement saying that its chief 
executive officer, Bill Connor, will work on the Corporate Governance Task 
Force that will convene at the summit, and homeland secretary Tom Ridge and 
Liscouski are tentatively scheduled to attend.

"The Summit will initiate both planning and action," the Entrust statement 
said, "bringing together representatives from across the critical 
infrastructures, government and academia, to collaboratively craft tangible 
solutions for major security challenges identified in the White House 
National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace."

Tighe declined to disclose the exact location of the summit.

(Click for Sept. 22 GCN story http://www.gcn.com/22_28/news/23616-1.html) 

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