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 ============== 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