California Attorney General Bill Lockyer to Keynote Stanford Center for Internet and Society Conference on Computer Security and Vulnerability Disclosure
Palo Alto, CA - Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society (CIS) announced today that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer will give the keynote address at the upcoming conference on Cybersecurity, Research and Disclosure, to be held at the Law School on November 22, 2003.
California is at the epicenter of the debate on whether Internet security is better served by fully disclosing security vulnerabilities, by keeping them secret, or something in between. The state recently passed a law requiring companies who do business in California to notify consumers when computer intruders have gained access to their personal information. Also the California Supreme Court recently ruled that under some circumstances disclosure of copy protection code violates state trade secret laws. The Attorney General is in a unique position to speak about these and other government initiatives in computer security and infrastructure protection.
The Cybersecurity, Research and Disclosure Conference is a day-long, highly interactive exploration of the relationship between computer security, privacy, and disclosure of information about security vulnerabilities. Experts from government, industry and academia will gather to debate the ways in which vendors, customers, government, researchers and consumers can better promote vulnerability research, computer security and consumer privacy.
Confirmed speakers include:
Matt Blaze, AT&T
Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle
David L. Dill, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
James Duncan, Cisco
Gerhard Eschelbeck, Qualys
Stephanie Fohn, Consultant
Tiina Havana, Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG), Finland
Shawn Hernan, CERT
Steven B. Lipner, Microsoft
David Litchfield, NGSSoftware
Simple Nomad, NMRC, Bindview
Len Sassaman, Anonymizer
Bruce Schneier, Counterpane
Peter P. Swire, Professor of Law at Ohio State University
Hal Varian, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Vincent Weafer, Symantec
Stephen Wu, InfoSec Law Group
Chris Wysopal, @stakeAnyone who is interested securing the infrastructure, free speech, protecting consumer's privacy and the future of the computer industry should attend this day-long event. The audience for the conference includes computer security researchers and practitioners, computer science academics and professionals, programmers, policy formulators, software vendors and writers, commercial entities that use networked computers, consumers, officials charged with increasing government and national security and security critical infrastructure including law enforcement and national security officers, consumer rights advocates and civil libertarians.
Register here. Early registration ends November 1, 2003.
About Stanford CIS:
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is a public interest technology law and policy program at Stanford Law School and a part of Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford Law School. The CIS brings together scholars, academics, legislators, students, programmers, security researchers, and scientists to study the interaction of new technologies and the law and to examine how the synergy between the two can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, privacy, public commons, diversity, and scientific inquiry. The CIS strives as well to improve both technology and law, encouraging decision makers to design both as a means to further democratic values.
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