9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Common Criteria Mutual Recognition Agreement Signing
Representatives from five nations signed an interim agreement in Paris on March 12, 1998, in support of the new International Common Criteria for Information Technology (IT) Security Evaluation. During the 1998 National Information Systems Security Conference, six nations will come together to sign the International Common Criteria Mutual Recognition Agreement.

The United States (represented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA)), along with the directors of five other government agencies responsible for information security in Canada (Communications Security Establishment), France (Central Service for Information Systems Security), Germany (German Information Security Agency), the Netherlands (Netherlands National Communications Security Agency) *The Netherlands is expected to formally sign at a later date*, and the United Kingdom (Communications-Electronics Security Group) agree to immediately recognize certificates issued by each other for security products evaluated to Common Criteria specifications using a common evaluation methodology. In May 1998, Version 2.0 of International Common Criteria was accepted as an International Standards Organization (ISO) final committee draft international security standard, designed to replace differing standards for security evaluations now in place in the United States, Canada, and the European Community.

Come and learn more about Mutual Recognition, the International Common Criteria, and the impact the agreement will have on world-wide IT security evaluation programs.

Keynote Speakers:

• Arthur Money,
  Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command
  Control and Communications
  (designate)

• Robert L. Mallett,
  Deputy Secretary,
  US Department of Commerce

9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Break

10:15 a.m. - 12 noon Keynote Speaker Craig Mundie, Senior Vice President, Consumer Platforms Division, Microsoft Corporation
1998 National Computer Systems Security Award Presentation to Dr. Butler Lampson, Microsoft Corporation
Industry/Government Leadership Panel Chair: Steve Walker, Steve Walker and Associates Ask the keynote panel
Panelist: Dr. Richard A. Clarke, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Issues and Multinational Affairs, National Security Council	(Photo unavailable)
John Ryan, President and Chief Officer, Entrust Technologies, Inc.
Dr. Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Object Management Group, Inc.	(Photo unavailable)

Awards will be presented to vendors that have successfully developed security product lines that have been approved by the NIST Validation Program or the NCSC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Program. Awards will be also presented to the Systems Security Engineering Capability Maturity Model (SSE-CMM) Project to the individual and to the organiztion who have made the most significant contributions to the implementation and adoption of the SSE-CMM. Conference participants can learn more by visiting the SSE-CMM booth.

Banquet
6 p.m. Cash Bar
7 p.m. Dinner
Regency Ballroom

Banquet Speaker

• The Honorable Neal F. Lane,
  Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology

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Sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)