NSA Director Wolf to Keynote Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Nancy Carr, Gilden Integrated
                410-889-0990 Ext. 245
                nancy.carr@gilden.com

NSA Information Assurance Director Announced as Keynote Speaker for the
First Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium
Event slated for March 2-4, 2005 in Silver Spring, Md.

SILVER SPRING, Md. ­ January 25, 2005 ­ Daniel G. Wolf, director of the
Information Assurance Directorate at the National Security Agency (NSA) will
be the keynote speaker at the inaugural Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
Symposium, scheduled for March 2-4 in Silver Spring, Md.

Mr. Wolf has worked for 37 years in a variety of technical and analytic
organizations within NSA. His Information Assurance Directorate ensures,
through ongoing contact with NSA¹s customers, that the Information Assurance
(IA) programs of the NSA continue to evolve to meet the challenges of their
current and future requirements for secure communications and networks,
providing IA technical consulting services and high assurance products to
the nation. The NSA originally developed and publicly released SELinux as a
foundation for incorporating high-end security access controls features into
mainstream open source technology.

Mr. Wolf will discuss NSA¹s role in software assurance for the nation, and
how emerging technologies are helping to address the network security
challenges of both the United States Government and private industry.

About the SELinux Symposium
The Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium is an annual exchange of
ideas, technology, and research involving SELinux. SELinux is emerging
technology that adds flexible, strong mandatory access control security to
Linux. The inaugural Symposium is schedule for March 2-4, 2005 in Silver
Spring, Maryland and is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Red Hat, and
Tresys Technology. The event brings together experts from business,
government, and academia to share research, development, and application
experiences using SELinux. For information on registration and sponsorship
opportunities, see www.selinux-symposium.org or send an e-mail to
info@selinux-symposium.org.

(30)