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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:54:00 -0800
From: "Bill Gram-Reefer" <reefer@worldviewpr.com>
To: "Liz" <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Interop to sponsor The Internet Security Conference


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Los Gatos, California‹ March 2, 2001‹ The Internet Security Conference
(TISC) announced the addition of Interop, a Key3Media Group, Inc. (NYSE:
KME) brand, as a media sponsor for its upcoming conference to be held
June 4-8, 2001 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

Interop is the world's leading brand in the networking, Internet and
telecommunications event and educational marketplace, staging events
such as NetWorld+Interop and Interop NetResults and the community
resource interop.com.

Presented by Core Competence and Mactivity, TISC is the industry leading
technical event addressing the issues of safeguarding enterprise
networks and Internet connections from attack. During its comprehensive
5-day curriculum on secure computing and internetworking, TISC offers
the most accomplished and recognized experts in the security industry
who expose hacking and provide attendees with the tools they need to
help protect their networks, and to conduct successful forensic analysis
should they fall prey to attackers.

ABOUT TISC
"Ultimate Hacking!" --- an intensive two-day hands-on workshop
conducted by Hacking Exposed author, George Kurtz, and the Foundstone
anti-hacking team, will headline this year's TISC workshops. This
complements workshops presented by the TISC faculty of leading
researchers and practitioners in the network security field including:
Stephen Kent, Radia Perlman, George Kurtz, Phil Cox, Tina Darmohray,
Joel Snyder, Gene Shultz, Charlie Kaufman, Paul Hill, Lisa Phifer, among
many more.

TISC Security Symposium topics will include anti-hacking, auditing and
penetration testing, scalable security through PKI, VPNs, digital rights
management, intrusion and anomaly detection, wireless security, network
forensics, risk assessment, incident response, secure programming, and
more. Special features to date include the 5th Annual Security Products
Showcase. Peer-reviewed Invited Papers will also be presented during
TISC

The 2nd Annual TISC CLUE Award, which seeks to recognize outstanding
lifetime achievement in the sharing of knowledge regarding Internet
security systems issues, design and deployment, will be awarded
Wednesday, June 6th. The TISC CLUE Award presentation is one of a full
afternoon of events open to the public free of charge.

Registration is now open to professionals wishing to stay on top of the
latest technology, product and practice innovations needed to achieve
security in an online environment. Conference and workshop tuition
ranges from $445 to $2,900, with free admission to the Security Products
Showcase.

Online registration is now open at http://www.tisc2001.com.

Contact
David Piscitello, The Internet Security Conference,
dave@corecom.com

Paul Kent, The Internet Security Conference (408)
354-2500, paul@mactivity.com

Bill Gram-Reefer, WORLDVIEW (925) 676-4733,
reefer@worldviewpr.com