Industry Team To Run Y2K Cyber Assurance National Information Center

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 16, 1999 — Volunteers from a variety of professional organizations across the spectrum of the cyber assurance community have assembled to form the Y2K Cyber Assurance National Information Center (NIC).

The Center is one of more than 10 NICs operated by industry that will provide information to the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion Information Coordination Center, which is the nerve center for the Federal Government's monitoring and reporting on system operations during the Year 2000 rollover.

Coming together to form the Cyber Assurance NIC team are volunteers from the MITRE Corporation, Veridian, IOPS.ORG, the SANS Institute, and SEMATECH. Additional assistance is being provided by nearly a dozen corporate professional organizations from the technology sector.

MITRE (www.mitre.org) is an independent, not-for-profit company providing engineering services to the government in the public interest, is serving as the team's facilitator. It will partner with Veridian, a for-profit global leader in information security and safety, in channeling information to and from the private sector in the areas of firewall vendors, security encryption suppliers and virus scanning suppliers, and work closely with companies managing security for corporate national and international networks.

IOPS.ORG (Internet Operators) will coordinate real-time communications between major global Internet Service Providers, equipment vendors, government officials, and professional groups, including the Internet Society Los Angeles, and Internet Service Providers from the North American Network Operators' Group. IOPS will sponsor a telephone conference bridge and also a web-based system to keep these parties in continuous contact during the transition period.

SANS will be reaching out to its constituents in the system administrators community to obtain and maintain a front line view of cyber activity as it may relate to Y2K.

SEMATECH will monitor semiconductor chip manufacturing operations of its 13 member companies, and will be providing them update information on critical infrastructure activity across the globe.

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