But at IT*SECURITY Magazine, we recognize the need for senior executives and government decision makers to have access to expert IT security content that they can easily understand and apply rapidly to their business environment. Because today’s world demands that IT security focus on more than technology. Today, IT security technologies must integrate with and support policies, practices and procedures.

That’s why at IT*SECURITY Magazine we focus on technology issues in a way that senior decision makers can determine the best, most cost-effective approach for their organization. And we do that by bringing you case studies that focus on what has worked elsewhere, new technology previews and trends, leadership profiles that bring you closer to your peers, and guest articles and columns by an editorial advisory board that is unmatched in its quality and expertise.

Unique Editorial Mission & Focus

IT*SECURITY Magazine has started a revolution in IT security journalism. No more reckless reporting, vendor bashing, first drafts of history or “slow news day” stories that focus on failure for failure’s sake. We are about building partnerships and finding answers to REAL problems and challenges.

At IT*SECURITY Magazine we pledge to our government, corporate and academic readers that we will:

• Focus on the positive and the success stories, and will never tear things down simply because we can. We will, however, discuss what hasn’t worked, but in the context of how to make it better or overcome specific challenges;

• Be the forum that builds teams and solves problems, and the focal point for the Public-Private Partnership in IT security and infrastructure protection;

• Never take sides (e.g. users versus vendors versus government). We will build teams and cooperation;

• Not run stories written by non-expert journalists. Our stories will be written by legitimate professionals from throughout the government, private sector and academia, and where there are potential technological solutions to problems we will highlight them;

• Never embarrass an individual, company or agency by making them the subject of politically motivated investigative reports;

Award-Winning Editorial Leadership

IT*SECURITY Magazine’s Vice President and Executive Editor is Dan Verton. Dan is a former senior writer for Computerworld magazine and Federal Computer Week in Washington, D.C. His work during the past eight years has been featured regularly on CNN, The History Channel, PC World, Information Security Magazine, USA Today, and many other media outlets.

Dan is also the author of the highly acclaimed book Black Ice: The Invisible threat of Cyber-Terrorism (McGraw-Hill, 2003), endorsed by some of the nation’s top experts as one of the best descriptions of the terrorist threat to critical cyber infrastructures to date. As a result of his work, Dan has been asked to present his research into the high-tech future of terrorism to the Department of Homeland Security, the Air Force War College, the U.S. Secret Service, the Library of Congress, NASA’s Counterintelligence Division and colleges and universities around the country. His other work includes The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers, published in 2002 by McGraw-Hill.

Dan is also the first-place recipient of the 2003 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Best News Coverage for a series of reports on wireless network security threats at some of the nation's largest airlines and airports.

Prior to becoming a journalist, Dan was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served as senior briefing officer for the Second Marine Expeditionary Force and analyst in charge of the Balkans Task Force during the crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1994-1996. He is also a former imagery intelligence analyst with the U.S. Army Reserve. Dan has a wide range of military and computer security training, and has been responsible for training and access control of CIA and Pentagon intelligence databases and systems.

As one of the leading technology journalists in the country, Dan traveled around the world in 1999 and 2000 covering the NATO-led war in Kosovo and the use of cyber war tactics by the U.S. military. He has interviewed and written profiles of military cyber-warriors and hackers from around the world, and has traveled with the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Dan has a B.A. in History and earned a Master’s Degree in Journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.

Board of Advisors

IT*Security Magazine is unmatched when it comes to the quality and experience of its Editorial Advisory Board (EAB). A new Editorial Advisory Board is currently being planned for 2007-2008. Please send nominations or letters of interest to Editor-in-Chief, Dan Verton at editor@danverton.com

Past members of IT*Security Magazine’s EAB have included industry leaders such as:

- Amit Yoran, Former Director of the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security

- Howard Schmidt, former chair of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board

- Phyllis Schneck, chair of the InfraGard Board of Directors

- Roger Cressey of Good Harbor Consulting

- Prof. Corey Schou, Head of the National Information Assurance Education and Training Center (NIATEC)

- Bill Crowell, Former Dep. Director of NSA and Former CEO of Cylink Corp.

- Mark Rasch, Founder for the Department of Justice Computer Crime Unit and Chief Counsel for Solutionary Inc.

- Winn Schwartau, President of InterPact, the Security Awareness Company.

- Mikko Hypponen, Director of Anti-Virus Research at F-Secure Corp.

- Clint Kreitner, President & CEO of the Center For Internet Security (CIS)

- Charles “Buck” Fleming, acting executive director of CIDDAC (Cyber Incident Detection & Data Analysis Center), and CEO of AdminForce LLC

Strategic Partnerships

IT*SECURITY Magazine has arranged strategic partnerships with some of the nation’s leading government and private sector IT and infrastructure security organizations to help advance information sharing and build a first of its kind forum for the open exchange of ideas between thought leaders and decision makers.

Our Strategic Organizational sponsors include:

The InfraGard National Members Alliance is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program that began in the Cleveland Field Office in 1996. InfraGard is an information sharing and analysis effort serving the interests and combining the knowledge base of a wide range of members. At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector. InfraGard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States. InfraGard Chapters are geographically linked with FBI Field Office territories. Each InfraGard Chapter has an FBI Special Agent Coordinator assigned to it, and the FBI Coordinator works closely with Supervisory Special Agent Program Managers in the Cyber Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Each FBI Field Office has a Special Agent Coordinator who gathers interested companies of various sizes from all industries to form a chapter. Any company can join InfraGard. Local executive boards govern and share information within the membership. Chapters hold regular meetings to discuss issues, threats and other matters that impact their companies. Speakers from public and private agencies and the law enforcement communities are invited.

First established in New York in 1995, the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Forces partner with the private sector and academia to battle electronic crime. With the passage of the US PATRIOT Act in 2001, Congress recognized the strength of the Secret Service philosophy that success resides in the ability to bring academia, law enforcement and private industry together to combat crime in the information age. As a result, the law mandated that the U.S. Secret Service establish a nationwide network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces based upon the New York model that encompasses this philosophy. There are now 13 Electronic Crimes Task Forces around the country comprised of hundreds of members from the private sector. Each task force provides an area of concentration and expertise to include banking and finance, academia, financial markets, casino-based operations, and the hi-tech industry, to name just a few. These task forces provide a productive framework and collaborative crime-fighting environment in which resources of its participants can be combined to effectively and efficiently make a significant impact on electronic crimes.

The Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program is composed of six regional centers that share intelligence and coordinate efforts against criminal networks that operate in many locations across jurisdictional lines. Typical targets of RISS activities are terrorism, drug trafficking, violent crime, cybercrime, gang activity, and organized criminal activities.
The RISS Program is a federally funded program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. RISS serves over 7,000 member law enforcement agencies in 50 states, Canada, the District of Columbia, Australia, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, England, and Puerto Rico.
The vast majority of member agencies are at the municipal and county levels, but over 465 state agencies and over 900 federal agencies are also members. The Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; U.S. Attorneys' Offices, Internal Revenue Service; Secret Service; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are among the federal agencies participating in the RISS Program.

Founded in 1997, the National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education is one of the leading proponents for implementing courses of instruction in INFOSEC into American higher education. The Colloquium is a forum for dialogue among leading figures in government, industry and academia to work in partnership to define current and emerging requirements for information security education, and to influence and encourage the development and expansion of information security curricula especially at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The Colloquium strives to foster the development of academic curricula which recognizes the need expressed by government and industry, and is based on the recognized "best practices" available in the field.

The Colloquium assists educational institutions by fostering the continued development and sharing of information security education resources. The Colloquium also encourages educational institutions to teach appropriate information systems security courses in various curricula to meet the needs of 21st Century consumers and to offer courses to meet the growing demand for information system security professionals.

The Center for Internet Security mission is to help organizations around the world effectively manage the risks related to information security. CIS provides methods and tools to improve, measure, monitor, and compare the security status of your Internet-connected systems and appliances, plus those of your business partners.

CIS is not tied to any proprietary product or service. It manages a consensus process whereby members identify security threats of greatest concern, then participate in development of practical methods to reduce the threats. This consensus process is already in use and has proved viable in creating Internet security benchmarks available for widespread adoption. More than 170 commercial, government, and academic institutions are members of the CIS.

RAINS (Regional Alliances for Infrastructure Protection and Network Security) is a non-profit, private/public partnership formed in Oregon to accelerate development and deployment of innovative technology for homeland security. RAINS has forged partnerships with more than 60 technology companies, six research universities, critical infrastructure providers, federal, state, and local agencies, and first responders. In August 2003, RAINS launched its Connect & Protect™ program, a highly secure operational network for alert notification and sensitive information sharing. Integrated today into the City of Portland’s 9-1-1 system, it is the nation’s first automated alert notification system for homeland security and emergency response serving schools, building managers and other key local public safety stakeholders.

The High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) is designed to encourage, promote, aid and effect the voluntary interchange of data, information, experience, ideas and knowledge about methods, processes, and techniques relating to investigations and security in advanced technologies among its membership.

Qualifications for membership in the HTCIA:
(a) Peace Officers, Investigators and Prosecuting Attorneys engaged in the investigation and/or prosecution of criminal activity associated with computers and/or advanced technologies. Each member shall be regularly employed by the Federal Government, State Government, Counties, and/or Municipal subdivisions of any state, or

(b) Management Level and Senior Staff Security Professionals in the regular employ of private business or Industry in the various states, the primary duties of which, are the control and responsibility for security and/or investigation in computer or advanced technology environments, or by virtue of his/her position or interest can provide, or have a need for information and training in the areas of computer and/or advanced technologies.

Integrated Media Solution

IT*SECURITY Magazine takes advantage of the high quality media strength of Homeland Defense Journal magazine (www.homelanddefensejournal.com) and Market Access International, a market research and training/event company. These media outlets share a common strategy with their emphasis on providing information to executives and decision makers on matters of homeland security. Homeland Defense Journal magazine has more than 28,000 readers at the federal, state and local government levels. IT*SECURITY Magazine continued to build its own dedicated readership.

In addition to creating an in-depth knowledge center through its web site (www.itsecuritymagazine.com), IT*SECURITY Magazine sponsors information security training courses and conferences. Several conferences and training courses are being developed for 2005. The courses and conferences will support the information and training needs of government and industry and provide added value for IT*Security Magazine founding sponsors and advertisers. The courses and conferences will be produced in conjunction with Homeland Defense Journal magazine and Market Access International.

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