"Emerging
Standards for Transit IT Security"
Second in a Four-Part National Teleconference
Series on “Standards for
Transit Security and Homeland Defense”
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
1:00-2:30 pm EDT
August 19, 2002--Warrendale, PA. The Technical Council of the Transit Standards Consortium (http://www.tsd.org/tsc/Transit_Security.htm )
will be hosting a National Teleconference on “Emerging Standards for Transit
Information Technology Security” on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 from
1-2:30 pm, EDT. The teleconference
is open to transit, information technology, systems integrators and other
professionals in other public, private and academic communities related to
public transportation. The event is the
second in a four-part national teleconference series on “Standards for Transit
Security and Homeland Defense.” The
series is co-sponsored by Palisades Group USA (http://www.palisadesgroup.com/PGUSA)
a leader in transit standards development, ITS and security and a member of the
Transit Standards Consortium (http://www.tsconsortium.org/).
The August 21st
Teleconference will be moderated by Mimi Hwang, CISSP,
President of KAO eTechnologies, Inc., Orlando, FL, and will feature Ed Fuller, CISSP, GESC, Vice President, Training and
Education of Security Horizon, Colorado Springs, CO (http://www.securityhorizon.com/). Mr. Fuller has over 26 years of experience
in Operations, Tactical, and Computer Information Systems and Security. Following his presentation, Don McCanless,
Chief Technology Officer, Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority
(WMATA), Washington, DC, and Ralph Menzano, Chief Information Officer
for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) will discuss
issues and opportunities raised in the presentation.
To register for this and future teleconference
sessions, log onto: http://palisadesgroup.com/PGUSA/TeleconSeries/StandardsNationalTelecon.htm Registration deadline for this session is 5
pm, EDT, Monday, August 19, 2002.
Registration is $125, payable by Master Card or Visa. TSC members and members of the press may
attend free of charge. (All members of
the transit community are eligible to join TSC, a non-profit membership
organization dedicated to facilitating the development, testing, maintenance and
training in the use of standards for transit.
Application Forms to join TSC are available at: http://www.tsconsortium.org/tsc/applicationform.html,
or contact Richard Cox, TSC President, at rcox@sae.org.)
Questions?
Contact TSC Technical Council Chair Tom Sullivan at 510-531-8411 or tom.sullivan@tsd.org; or Mark Stewart,
TSC Technical Seminar Series Program Manager at 678-592-2256 or mstewart@palisadesgroup.com.
Please
Note: All Teleconferences in this
Series will be recorded and transcribed.
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