The conference will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center; 1 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland USA, easily accessed by Baltimore Washington International Airport and Amtrak Railroad, Baltimore Light Rail and Subway, major highways leading into Baltimore, as well as numerous restaurants, shops, and sight-seeing attractions. The Convention Center is also within walking distance of the Baltimore Inner Harbor.

Automobile: A map and driving directions are available at the Baltimore Convention Center website: http://www.bccenter.org/about/map.html as well as the registration insert. However, there is no parking at the Convention Center; but visitors can park in city lots and garages.

Bus: The National Computer Security Center and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will present the 23rd Annual National Information Systems Security Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center, October 16-19, 2000.

Daily bus service to the Convention Center will be provided from Cardiac Hall (across from the FANX III). Buses will leave at 7:00 AM Monday through Thursday, and 11:00 AM Monday through Wednesday. Buses will leave the Convention Center to return to FANX III at 2:00 PM Monday through Wednesday and at the end of the final session each day (approximately 5:00 PM) and after the workshops on Thursday (approximately 6:00 PM).

On Monday, October 16th an Awards Ceremony and Reception will be held. A bus will arrive at 7:30 PM to pick up passengers who stay for the ceremonies and drop them off at FANX III. On Wednesday, October 18th the Conference Banquet will be held at the Renaissance Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street. A bus will pick up passengers at 9:30 PM in front of the hotel and drop them off at FANX III.

A hard copy and CD-ROM of the conference proceedings will be included as part of the registration packet for all attendees.

Messages will be taken for Conference attendees between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Messages will be posted on a message board adjacent to the Registration / Information Area. Attendees will not be called out of a meeting except in emergencies. The phone numbers for leaving messages will be posted on the message board.

Evaluation forms will be provided in your conference folder for your comments. Please leave the completed forms in the boxes provided at the registration area. We thank you in advance for your comments since your comments help the committee to develop and improve the Conference program each year. Comments may also be sent to nissconference@dockmaster2.ncsc.mil.

There will be a limited number of rooms available for special interest discussions ("Birds of a Feather," etc.). These rooms may be reserved in one-hour increments and must not be used for commercial purposes. Call the NCSC Conference Administrator at (410) 850-0272 to make a reservation. The originator should post notice of an open meeting on the message board.

Coffee service will be provided to all the attendees during registration each morning and at mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks. Attendees will be free at lunch time to explore the convenient restaurants near the Convention Center and the Inner Harbor. In addition, an awards reception and banquet will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings, respectively.

On Monday evening, awards will be presented to vendors who have successfully developed IT security product lines that have been approved by the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), the NCSC Trusted Product Evaluation Program (TPEP), the NSA Trust Technology Assessment Program (TTAP), the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS), and the System Security Engineering Capability Maturity Model (SSE-CMM). The awards ceremony will begin at 5:30pm, followed by the reception at 6:15 pm.

The conference banquet will be held on Wednesday evening, beginning with a cash bar reception at 6pm, and followed by a dinner at 7pm.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the hotels listed below. Please contact the hotel directly to make reservations and to ask about proximity to the Convention Center. Rates are guaranteed until September 20th. When reserving a room please mention you are attending the NISS Conference.

Mt. Vernon Hotel
$89.00 S/D
24 W. Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD. 21202
Telephone: (410) 727-2000
Fax: (410) 576-9300

Days Inn
$114.00 S/D
100 Hopkins Place
Baltimore, MD. 21201
Telephone: (410) 576-1000
Fax: (410) 576-9437

Comfort Suites--BWI Airport
$99.00 S/D
815 Elkridge Landing Road
Linthicum, MD. 21090
Telephone: (410) 691-1000
Fax: (410) 691-1275

Hilton--Baltimore Towers
$166 S/D or $110 gov. S/D
20 W. Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD. 21201
Telephone: (410) 539-8400
Fax: (410) 625-1060

Holiday Inn Inner Harbor
$154 S/D or $110 gov. S/D
301 W. Lombard Street
Baltimore, MD. 21201
Telephone: (410) 685-3500
Fax: (410) 727-5238

Holiday Inn BWI Airport
$149 S/D or $110 gov. S/D
890 Elkridge Landing Road
Linthicum, MD. 21090
Telephone: (410) 859-8400
Fax: (410) 684-6778

The registration fee of $530 ($580 after September 18), includes conference sessions, materials, coffee breaks, a reception, and a banquet. The fee for the workshops on the afternoon of October 19 is $125.

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