October 19 - 21, 2003 · Hyatt Regency Reston · Reston, Virginia, U.S.A.

EVENT MATERIALS

Speaker Presentations eFORUM Results Recommendations Webcast

Session Recommendations: 

SESSION RECOMMENDATIONS

PERCENT

The following recommendations were rated on a scale from 1 (least important) to 9 (most important) Least important --> Most important
Session 1.1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Strengthen intelligence coordination among Federal, state, local government agencies, and the international law enforcement community.

2

0

2

0

15

2

47

9

23

U.S. standards developing organizations and national standards bodies must collaborate with foreign governments to develop global standards for cutting-edge security technologies.

0

0

10

0

15

5

38

10

21

Development of a national level crisis coordination center with full time, operational members from the key private sector infrastructures and government components.

5

0

5

2

20

10

35

8

15

Encourage companies to treat cyber-security as a management issue rather than a technology issue

3

3

3

0

5

11

38

14

24

Encourage companies to publicly report in their annual statements that they have undertaken cyber security risk assessments, undertaken third party audits, and developed a security program that is overseen by executive management

10

3

3

7

23

3

37

10

3

Session 1.2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Security of Radio Communication Networks for first responders requires priority attention in Homeland Security funding.

9

0

0

6

15

0

24

27

18

The government should review its export control laws to strike the proper balance between encouraging U.S. exports of computer technology and preventing U.S. technology from being used to attack U.S. computer systems.

12

2

5

2

19

7

40

7

7

Conduct an honest assessment of Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) to ensure they are providing the quality and quantity of information necessary to identify cyber attacks and trace their origin.

3

0

6

0

18

9

45

6

12

The government should improve interagency cooperation and it should establish a single point-of-contact for the private sector to improve cooperation.

5

0

11

0

27

5

19

8

24

Session 1.3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Develop threat warning and alert systems (that captures the attention of the public and educates citizens) to fight complacency in the average citizen's attitude towards the threat warning system and other alert systems.

15

0

5

3

21

10

23

5

18

Conduct a public-service campaign to educate consumers to the preventative benefits of using anti-virus products, personal firewalls, and not opening email or attachments that were not expected.

5

0

5

0

11

5

32

14

27

Tax incentives for companies to "bake" information security into products sold to business and home users.

13

0

3

7

7

3

23

20

23

Develop more ideas to incentivize business and home users with always on connections to use a personal firewall and anti-virus product on their home, laptop, and desktop workstations.

8

2

2

0

18

8

32

15

15

Session 1.4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Develop  financial incentives as an effective way to stimulate critical infrastructure investments for security cost recovery/rate relief/technology funding/and open standards development.

9

3

9

7

13

9

38

3

9

Enhance awareness of global Internet dependencies.

10

0

3

0

10

0

33

13

30

Establish a public/private consortium to examine effective and, as appropriate, dynamic network security standards within the energy/electricity industry.

0

6

8

0

14

3

36

19

14