BUSINESSES in large cities across the U.S. soon will have a chance to send their information technology specialists to quarterly government-sponsored meetings to compare notes with their peers on the subject of cybersecurity. . .
BUSINESSES in large cities across the U.S. soon will have a chance to send their information technology specialists to quarterly government-sponsored meetings to compare notes with their peers on the subject of cybersecurity.

Companies need not worry that if they send representatives to the meetings they might risk exposing secrets about their systems or about successful attacks against their systems, say members of the government organization facilitating the meetings. That organization is the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and it prides itself on secrecy.

Nine U.S. Secret Service offices across the country, including those in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami, are preparing to roll out their own Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF) patterned on New York's, which has been in place for seven years, said USSS officials who participated Wednesday and Thursday in SECTOR5, a cyberterrorism conference in Washington.

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