MITRE Employees Receive SANS Security Technology Leadership Awards

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Bedford, Massachusetts, March 28, 2000 — In ceremonies last week at the SANS Joint Computer Security Conference in Orlando, FL, MITRE Corporation employees were presented with two SANS 2000 Security Technology Leadership Awards.

The first was given to MITRE's Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) team, consisting of Steve Christey, Margie Zuk, Pete Tasker, and Dave Mann (now with BindView), for "establishing, nurturing and sustaining the industry-wide cooperative CVE project." MITRE's CVE initiative resulted in the world's first lexicon that provides standardized names and descriptions for publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures. CVE makes it easier to share data across separate vulnerability databases and security tools.

MITRE's Eric Kayden received an award as a member of the National Infrastructure Protection Center team, which was cited for its "leadership in the creation of forensics tools including software that isolates distributed denial of service attack tools."

"It means a lot to have been singled out by the SANS community," said Steve Christey who, along with David Mann, created CVE. "It couldn't have been done without the full participation of the CVE Editorial Board and the vendor community. We continue to expand this board into other areas of the community, with our most recent additions being Microsoft and SUN Microsystems." MITRE established and leads the CVE Editorial Board, which includes representatives from 25 organizations in the private sector, the government and academia.

"I continue to be impressed by the steady increase in CVE acceptance," added MITRE's Margie Zuk. "A total of 21 producers of information security tools and databases have declared that they are making their products CVE-compatible. So far this month, the Editorial Board has agreed to add 53 new CVE entries, and MITRE has proposed an additional 120 candidates for review by the Board."

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