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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Secret.Service.expands.cybersecurity.task.forces]
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Secret Service expands cybersecurity task forces


By Gretel Johnston, IDG News Service
AUGUST 22, 2002

	
 	
 	  	 
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WASHINGTON -- Businesses in large cities across the U.S.  soon will have
a chance to send their IT specialists to quarterly government-sponsored
meetings to compare notes with their peers on cybersecurity. 


Companies need not worry that they might risk exposing secrets about
their systems or about successful attacks against their systems, say
members of the government organization facilitating the meetings.  That
organization is the U.S.  Secret Service, and it prides itself on
secrecy. 

Nine Secret Service offices across the country, including those in
Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami, are preparing to roll out their
own Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTF), patterned on New York's, which
has been in place for seven years, said Secret Service officials who
participated in Sectors, a cyberterrorism conference in Washington, this
week. 

The task forces operating in New York and in Washington (see &lt;<a
href="http://www.computerworld.com/news/2000/story/0,11280,45927,00.html">http://www.computerworld.com/news/2000/story/0,11280,45927,00.html>
story) are designed to foster open discussions on security and to help
companies tighten cybersecurity through cooperation with other
companies, academics and government IT specialists, said Bob Weaver, the
assistant special agent in charge of the task force in New York. 

The task forces have worked so well that Congress mandated that they be
set up in every major U.S.  city under the Patriot Act, passed earlier
this year in response to the Sept.  11 terrorist attacks, Weaver said. 
In addition, an appropriations bill now awaiting President Bush's
signature includes $17 million in additional money for the Secret
Service to fund the first set of new task forces. 

The quarterly meetings held by the New York task force have brought
together as many as 500 participants, and the Washington meetings have
seen as many as 250, said Secret Service special agent Bryan Palma. 
Companies are encouraged to send no more than two representatives and to
prepare for a general session that is open to reporters, Palma said. 

"But when something has to be kept secret, we know how to do it," Palma
said.  "Our name proves we know how."

The task forces are the "only vehicle of their kind" in law enforcement,
said special agent John Frazzini.  He acknowledged that the business
community might consider the Secret Service an unlikely partner in the
struggle against cyberterrorism.  But the task forces show that law
enforcement is trying to do business differently by actively working
with companies to prevent and prepare for cyberterrorism, he said. 
Frazzini views this as a change within the service that places more
emphasis on education and prevention. 

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