NRIC EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH March 14, 2003

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NRIC EDUCATIONAL OUTREACHMarch 14, 2003

• Pamela J. Stegora Axberg
• NRIC VI Steering Committee Chair
• 612-664-4200

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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
HOMELAND SECURITY AND NETWORK RELIABILITY FOCUS
GROUPS MEMBERSHIP (35 Signed Non Disclosure
Agreements)
Allegiance Telecom, Inc. Alliance for
Telecommunications Industry Solutions
(ATIS) ATT ATT Wireless BellSouth BPI (Business
Planning, Inc.) Cable Wireless Cisco
Systems Comcast Cable Communications CommFlow
Resources Inc. Cox Communications Dobson Cellular
Systems, Inc. Federal Reserve Board Genuity
Solutions, Inc. IBSS (Integrated Business
Systems and Solutions) Intelsat Juniper
Networks Lucent Technologies
McLeod USA Motorola NCS (National Communications
System) NCTA (National Cable
Telecommunications Association) Nextel
Communications Nortel Networks Qwest
Communications SAIC (Science Applications
International Corporation) Schwarz Consulting
LLC Sprint Corporation Tekelec The Telesis Group
Inc. USTA (U.S. Telecom Association) VeriSign,
Inc. Verizon Domestic Telecom (Wireline) Verizon
Wireless WorldCom
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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
Educating the Industry on Best Practices
Developing Best Practices
THE BALANCE IS SHIFTING
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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PLANS

• Target Audience
• Wireline, wireless, ISP, telecom service
  providers
• Federal, state, local governments
• Public Safety officials
• Content
• Share Best Practices
• Encourage adoption of Best Practices, as
  appropriate
• Offer a model for improvement through use of
  Best
• Practices

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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PLANS

• Industry-wide memorandum
• Piggyback onto existing seminars and
  conferences
• Pilot an NRIC specific mini-seminar
• Outreach through industry associations
• Survey of Best Practice adoption

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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
SESSION DATE LOCATION ATIS Security
Summit February 2003 Washington, DC CTIA
Wireless 2003 March 19, 2003 New Orleans,
LA IEEE Communications Quality and April 9,
2003 Charleston, SC Reliability (CQR)
Workshop IEEE International Conference on
Communications May 11-15, 2003 Anchorage,
Alaska USTA Webinar May ? Everywhere BITS CIO
June 12, 2003 Chicago, IL SUPERCOMM 2003 June
2, 2003 Atlanta, GA Information Security
Executive Forum July 2003 Colorado Springs, CO
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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
Review recommendations and approve, with
appropriate comments, by March 28, 2003.
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