Spring Meeting Information

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SPRING MEETING INFORMATION

On Thursday, June 6th, 2002, Mayor Fred P. Ramos and the City of Independence, Ohio (website) will host the Northern Ohio Information Technology Roundtable (NOITR) quarterly meeting.

The meeting will be held at the Independence Community Civic Center, 6363 Selig Drive, Independence, Ohio 44131. Registration is from 8:15 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Discussion is scheduled from 9:00 a.m. through 12:00 p.m.

Mr. Chris Thompson from Craintech News (website) will moderate the meeting.

Speakers:

Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge (DSAIC) Robert Weaver, New York Field Office, United States Secret Service.
DSAIC Weaver (bio) supervises the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force (NYECTF) (website). He will be speaking on the systemic approach to fighting cyber-crime. The Task Force which was based in the World Trade Center was operational within 48 hours of the 9/11 attacks due in large part to public/private business partnerships. DSAIC Weaver is an alumni of the elite Secret Service Counter Assault Team (CAT) and has served in a number of investigative and protective assignments.
Mr. Michael Panczenko, Director, E-Crime, the Windermere Group, Annapolis, MD (website).
Mr. Panczenko will present an overview of steganography and some of the common ways data is hidden. He will address the challenges of this technology to the information security community. Steganography (pronounced STEHG-uh-NAH-gruhf-ee, from Greek steganos, or "covered," and graphie, or "writing") is defined as the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination. Steganography takes cryptography a step farther by hiding an encrypted message so that no one suspects it exists. Ideally, anyone scanning data will fail to know it contains encrypted data. Criminals are increasingly using such techniques as a means of communicating anonymously and covertly. Because these techniques can be applied to virtually any form of digitized data, they can be used to create covert communications channels to sneak information out of an organization over its networks.