Gartner Announces the 13th Annual IT Security Summit

Business Wire, April 30, 2007

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT):

What: Gartner IT Security Summit 2007

When: June 4-6, 2007

Where: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Details: The Gartner IT Security Summit 2007 has a single focus - Security 3.0. Security 3.0 is about building security in from the very start - to your business and IT processes, and to your applications. At the Gartner IT Security Summit, you will learn how Security 3.0 enables you to act proactively, reduce the cost of regulatory compliance, and meet senior management concerns relating to the protection of customer data. Gartner IT Security Summit 2007 will help build on-target strategies, develop the case for IT security investments, and implement successful solutions to protect organizations today and tomorrow.

Keynotes:

* Greg Crabb, U.S. Postal Inspector - International CyberCrime and the Networked Criminal: Mr. Crabb will examine the evolution of the organization of the networked criminal, malicious conduct including SPAM, phishing, pharming, and remote access Trojans, and how this has bred various technological advances.

* James Bamford, Author and Expert on Intelligence Gathering - Eavesdropping on America: The Ultra-Secret NSA and Domestic Electronic Surveillance

* Don Tapscott, IT Strategist and Author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

* John Pescatore, Gartner Vice President & Distinguished Analyst - Security 3.0: Mr. Pescatore will explain how Security 3.0 enables you to protect customer data while operating at the speed of business, minimize bottom line risks, and reduce the cost of compliance.

* Security Vulnerability Researchers Panel - David Maynor, Errata Security & H D Moore, BreakingPoint Systems

* E-Voting Panel - Electronic Voting As a Proxy for Secure Application Development: Avi Rubin, Technical Director, Information Security Institute, John Hopkins University, Sanford Morganstein, President and Founder, Populex Corporation and others will discuss why e-voting has become so controversial and what lessons can be learned from the E-voting experience.

Industry Insight:

Gartner's dedicated team of more than 25 IT security analysts are responsible for tracking and influencing developments and the direction of information security around the world. At the Gartner IT Security Summit, this team of analysts, along with practitioners from a wide-spectrum of industries, will guide you through more than 70 sessions on the key aspects of IT security that need to be mastered in order to achieve operational and strategic success including:

* Critical Infrastructure Protection

* Secure Business Enablement

* Compliance, Risk and the Law

* Tools, Technologies and Techniques

* Protecting Applications, Data and Operations

* CISO Bootcamp - Information Security Management 2010

For complete event details, please visit the Gartner IT Security Summit Web site at www.gartner.com/us/itsecurity.> More than 80 companies will be sponsors exhibiting at the conference. A listing of Gartner IT Security Summit sponsors is available under the Sponsors tab at www.gartner.com/us/itsecurity.> Additional companies interested in participating as a Conference Sponsor should contact Stephen Gibertoni at 203-316-6360 or at stephen.gibertoni@gartner.com or David Lien at 978-423-4050 or david.lien@gartner.com.

Members of the media can register for the event by contacting Christy Pettey at christy.pettey@gartner.com.

About Gartner

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) delivers the technology-related insight necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day. Gartner serves 10,000 client organizations worldwide, including chief information officers and other senior IT executives in corporations and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment community. The company consists of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 3,800 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 75 countries. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.