Alan Paller, SANS Institute Director, to Speak on Compliance and Security at Boston Community Luncheon

Business Wire, May 3, 2006

Network Intelligence

WHAT:   "The State of Information Technology Compliance and Security,"
        a free industry event and luncheon for invited and registered
        IT professionals, co-sponsored by Network Intelligence and
        Vernier Networks. Registration is required at
        www.network-intelligence.com.

WHO:    Alan Paller, director of research, The SANS Institute, will be
        the featured speaker. Mr. Paller is a distinguished security
        expert who was named by the President of the United States as
        a charter member of the National Infrastructure Assurance
        Council.

WHEN:   Thursday, May 11, 2006, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. EDT

WHERE:  Network Intelligence End User Conference
        Boston Park Plaza Hotel
        Boston, Mass.

A 'perfect storm' of forces is compelling many businesses to rethink their network infrastructure. On the one hand, compliance and industry regulations mandate new procedures and processes for collecting and reporting data. On the other, corporate data is growing so exponentially that storage has become an issue. Yet, businesses must assiduously prevent network attacks that are increasingly more sophisticated.

In this session, Alan Paller, director of research at The SANS Institute, will provide his insight into many of the issues concerning compliance and security, including:

--Understanding who is attacking computer networks and how to better protect those systems

--Finding the sweet spot that connects compliance and security

--Challenges when a privileged user starts thinking like a hacker

--How system and software vendors are being 'persuaded' to take more responsibility

A distinguished security expert, Mr. Paller was one of the Internet leaders invited to the White House to meet with the president in the aftermath of the Yahoo and eBay denial of service (DoS) attacks in February 2000. He led that group's effort to develop and implement a consensus Roadmap to Defeating Distributed Denial of Service attacks. He was also the expert witness who helped the judge understand distributed DoS attacks at the MafiaBoy trial, and helped develop the Internet's early warning system, Internet Storm Center.

About The SANS Institute

The SANS Institute is a research and education organization dedicated to improving cyber security through graduate level, immersion training programs taught by hands-on practitioners who are also extraordinary teachers and authors of many books on advanced security topics. More than 44,000 security and audit professionals have attended one or more SANS immersion training programs. SANS also maintains a full research agenda including the Internet Storm Center, a large, global data collection program and analysis center that monitors unwanted traffic on the Internet for changing attack patterns and identifies infected systems. The research program also produces the SANS Annual Top 20 Internet Vulnerabilities program; @RISK, a weekly summary of all new Internet security vulnerabilities; NewsBites, a weekly summary of the top security news stories; and OUCH, a monthly security awareness newsletter that identifies the top new phishing threats; among many other research initiatives. For more information about The SANS Institute, visit www.sans.org.

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