Experts Converge at National Press Club on Cyber & Economic Security

Business Wire, June 23, 2009

Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 25, 2009: 1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Security Innovation Network hosts:

What: "Bridging the Gaps in our Nation's Cyber Security: Connecting Leadership, Innovation, and Policy." Panel Discussion in NPC Ballroom.

On the heels of the Obama administration’s Cyberspace Policy Review calling for public–private sector collaboration to address the exponentially growing number of sophisticated cyber attacks on government, military, and commercials networks, former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell will be joined by 14 leaders from government, academia, technology, and the venture capital community to address this urgent issue, and how the decline in U.S. innovation is imperiling national cyber and economic security.

Experts will make recommendations for government–entrepreneurial partnerships for spurring the development of new technologies to bolster national cyber defense and reinvigorate U.S. economic growth.

Who: Speakers will provide a 'front-line' report from the largest corporate targets of cyber crime, including Intuit, eBay and Heartland Payment Systems; address the perfect storm of factors behind America’s crisis in innovation; and present recommendations to bridge these gaps, uniting entrepreneurs, government, VCs, research, and academia in a collaborative approach for advancing innovation to secure our government and industry IT systems.

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Where & When: The National Press Club, Washington, D.C.Thursday, June 25, 2009Panels 1:30–5:30 p.m.; networking reception 5:30–7:30 p.m. For more info and to register: http://www.security-innovation.org/npce-overview.htm

Hosted By: Security Innovation Network, a non-profit 501(c)(3) founded to advance innovation through collaboration, supported by the Department of Homeland Security S&T and seed funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. SINET was founded by Robert D. Rodriguez, a former Secret Service Special Agent who served on several Presidential details and oversaw the development of one of the first electronic crimes taskforces, and is a recipient of the CSO Magazine 2009 Compass Leader Award.

SINET has become a catalyst, connecting individuals and organizations involved with the technical, strategic, legal, economic, and policy aspects of cyber. It has built a community of thought leaders in positions of influence who are seeking to collaborate as a single strategic ecosystem to form a unified approach to cyber security.