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CEO Task Force Launches New Standards for Network Security

Mar 17, 2003 •

Anthony Pell

1 min read

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Now that the federal government has shown its cards on the issue of Internet security, a newly formed task force of security company executives is planning a response that it hopes will make some measurable progress in the effort to improve computer security. . . Now that the federal government has shown its cards on the issue of Internet security, a newly formed task force of security company executives is planning a response that it hopes will make some measurable progress in the effort to improve computer security.

The CEO Cybersecurity Task Force will by the end of this year release a set of best practices for network security that it hopes to convince corporations to adopt as a minimum standard. The task force plans to challenge other executives to have their companies meet these baseline requirements by a certain date, which has yet to be determined.

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