[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 94 (Thursday, May 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26778-26779]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12733]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board; Meeting

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., 
notice is hereby given that the Computer System Security and Privacy 
Advisory Board will meet Wednesday, June 4, Thursday, June 5, and 
Friday, June 6, 1997, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Advisory Board 
was established by the Computer Security Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100-235) 
to advise the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of NIST on 
security and privacy issues pertaining to

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Federal computer systems. All sessions will be open to the public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 4, 5 and 6, 1997, from 9:00 
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland in the Administration 
Building, in Lecture Room A on June 4 and 5 and Lecture Room D on June 
6.

AGENDA:

--Welcome and Overview
--Issues Update
--Federal Cryptographic Standards Update
--Computer Security Act of 1987--Overview and Perspectives
--Discussion and Recommendation Formulation
--Computer Security Training Guidelines
--Pending Business
--Public Participation
--Agenda Development for September Meeting
--Wrap-Up

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: The Board agenda will include a period of time, 
not to exceed thirty minutes, for oral comments and questions from the 
public. Each speaker will be limited to five minutes. Members of the 
public who are interested in speaking are asked to contact the Board 
Secretariat at the telephone number indicated below. In addition, 
written statements are invited and may be submitted to the Board at any 
time. Written statements should be directed to the Information 
Technology Laboratory, Building 820, Room 426, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001. It would be 
appreciated if fifteen copies of written material were submitted for 
distribution to the Board by June 9, 1997. Approximately 20 seats will 
be available for the public and media.
    At its March, 1997 meeting, the Board agreed to examine issues 
involving the Computer Security Act of 1987 and whether to make 
recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of NIST 
regarding the Act and improving the security and privacy of Federal 
systems. The Board is interested in hearing a wide variety of 
perspectives on the effectiveness of the Act, as input to its 
deliberations on what changes or modifications to recommend. The Board 
believes this to be appropriate given the advances in information 
technology over the past decade and the age of the Act. Public input 
regarding the Act is therefore particularly encouraged.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Edward Roback, Board Secretariat, Information Technology 
Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 
820, Room 426, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001, telephone: (301) 975-3696.

    Dated: May 8, 1997.
Elaine Bunten-Mines,
Acting Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 97-12733 Filed 5-14-97; 8:45 am]
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