MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Trish Gessner August 4, 2004	Phone: 202-434-8858 tgessner@atis.org

ATIS Network Security Symposium and Workshop to Define Industry Approach for Key Security Issues

 Standards Development Organizations and Industry Leaders to Identify Best Solutions for Vital Security Concerns

 August 4, 2004, Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) – the leader in communications standards development – will present a network security symposium and workshop September 21-22 at the Intelsat headquarters in Washington D.C.

The event will be the first public review of the ATIS Network Security Work Plan within the industry and is designed as an opportunity to coordinate work within the industry’s standardization community.

Network Security is one of the first five priority issues being addressed by the ATIS Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council. Presentation discussions at the event will include: preventing denial of service attacks; identifying a single interoperable application layer protocol access control mechanism; and authentication and encryption.

Agenda:

Tuesday, September 21:
Morning session:
Overview of ATIS TOPS Council and the Network Security Work Plan

Afternoon session:
Presentation and roundtable discussion – Denial of Service Attacks, including messaging

Wednesday, September 22:
Morning session:
Presentation and roundtable discussion – Interoperable Application Layer Protocol Access Control Mechanism

Afternoon session:
Presentation – Authentication and Encryption

For more information, visit www.atis.org.

About ATIS
ATIS is a technical planning and standards development organization that is committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technologies industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Over 1,200 participants from more than 400 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 21 industry committees, and its Incubator Solutions Program. www.atis.org

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