Secure IT: Identifying, Developing, and Evaluating Information Technology Products and Services for Secure Government and Infrastructure Applications

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Secure IT:

Identifying, Developing, and Evaluating
Information Technology Products and Services for
Secure Government and Infrastructure Applications
 

A Workshop  co-sponsored by:

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers - USA

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Carnegie Mellon University/Sustainable Computing Consortium

 
Keynote Speaker:  Mr. Howard Schmidt
Acting Chair, President¹s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
 

To be held at:

 National Institute of Standards and Technology

Green Auditorium

Gaithersburg, MD

 
May 20, 2003
 

We invite you to join senior government officials, industry executives,
educators, policy leaders, scientists, and engineers for a one-day workshop
that will address how the Federal government, private industry, and
infrastructure providers can identify, develop, and evaluate off-the-shelf,
commercially available information technology (IT) products and services for
secure system applications.  Presentations covering background status and
issues will be followed by afternoon working sessions that will focus on
high priority technical, educational and policy concerns and the formulation
of action plans for solving and mitigating these concerns.

 

This workshop is being held in response to our government¹s recognition of
the need to address security risks associated with the public and private
sector components of the critical information infrastructure.  Our nation¹s
critical infrastructure relies not only on the integrity of government
managed IT infrastructure and related information systems, but also those of
public and private institutions. Flaws and vulnerabilities in these critical
systems can threaten our economic and national security, as well as law
enforcement and public safety.  Thus, the security of our nation rests on
the ability of all links within the infrastructure to maintain viability
whether endangered by product failure, human error, malicious activity,
criminal intent, or external sabotage.

 

Initial discussion topics include:
·       National Information Assurance Partnership¹s Common Criteria
Evaluation and Validation Program: The Next Steps
·      Government¹s Role in Cybersecurity Technology

·      Improving Design of IT Products and Services

·      IT Workforce Development, Evaluation, and Maintenance

 

Agenda:            http://www.ieeeusa.org/conferences/secureit
<http://nytimes.com/>

 

Registration:     http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/conffutr.htm
<http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/conffutr.htm>

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

 

 

Luke Maki, Workshop Co-Chair   Committee on Communications and
Information Policy   IEEE-USA Dr. William Guttman, Workshop Co-Chair
Distinguished Service Professor of Economics &    Technology and  Director,
Carnegie Mellon Sustainable Computing    Consortium

Workshop Planning Committee: (alphabetically)

 

LeEarl Bryant

Consultant

Immediate Past-President, IEEE-USA

 

Lawrence Maccherone

Executive Director

Carnegie Mellon Sustainable Computing Consortium

 

Dr. Ron Ross

NIST Computer Security Division

 

Deborah Rudolph

Manager, Technology Policy Activities
IEEE-USA

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