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Date: Mon Feb 19 2007 - 15:53:00 CST

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CVE-Announce e-newsletter/February 19, 2007
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Contents:

1. Feature Story
2. HOT TOPIC
3. Also in this Issue
4. Details/Credits + Subscribing and Unsubscribing

FEATURE STORY:

CVE to Host Booth at "InfoSec World 2007," March 19-21

CVE is scheduled to co-host a Making Security Measurable
(http://measurablesecuirty.mitre.org) exhibitor booth at "InfoSec World
2007 Conference & Expo" on March 19-21, 2007 at the Rosen Shingle Creek
Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA. The conference will expose MITRE's CVE
(cve.mitre.org), CCE (cce.mitre.org), CME (cme.mitre.org), CWE
(cwe.mitre.org), CPE (cpe.mitre.org), and OVAL (oval.mitre.org) efforts
to a diverse audience of attendees from the banking, finance, real
estate, insurance, and health care industries, among others. The
conference is targeted to information security policy and decision
makers from these and other industries, as well as directors and
managers of information security, CIOs, network and systems security
administrators, IT auditors, systems planners and analysts, systems
administrators, software and application developers, engineers, systems
integrators, strategic planners, and other information security
professionals. Organizations with CVE-Compatible Products and Services
are also exhibiting.

Visit the CVE Calendar page for information on this and other upcoming
events. Contact cvemitre.org to have CVE present a briefing or
participate in a panel discussion about CVE, CCE, CME, CWE, CPE, OVAL,
and/or other vulnerability management topics at your event.

LINKS:

InfoSec World 2007 -
http://www.misti.com/default.asp?page=65&return=70&productid=5539

CVE Calendar - http://cve.mitre.org/news/calendar.html

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HOT TOPIC:

CVE Mentioned in Network Security Best Practices Article in "Network
World"

CVE was mentioned in a January 17, 2007 article entitled "The 7 best
practices for network security in 2007" in "Network World." CVE was
mentioned in the third section entitled "Run frequent information
security self-assessments," in which the author states: "...Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) [is] eight years old this year and
accepted worldwide as the de facto international standard for
vulnerability tracking on all computers and networking equipment. How
many machines on your network have one of the top 20 CVEs? You can find
the list here and then find more details at the National Vulnerability
Database hosted by NIST."

LINKS:

Network World article -
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/011707miliefsky.html

CVE - http://cve.mitre.org

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

* CVE Hosts Booth at "2007 Information Assurance Workshop," February
   12-15

* CVE Hosts Booth at "RSA Conference 2007," February 5-8

Read these stories and more news at http://cve.mitre.org/news

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Details/Credits + Subscribing and Unsubscribing

Managing Editor: Steve Christey, Information Security Technical Center.
Writer: Bob Roberge. The MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org) maintains CVE
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