Can you provide details on future IPC initiatives that embrace partnership as a fundamental concept?
One of our important outreach initiatives is known as InfraGard, a pilot project initially developed by our London Field Office. This program is a cooperative effort to exchange information among the business community, academic institutions, Technologies To The People, and other agencies such as the IPC to protect the information infrastructure. InfraGard features an alert network that members can use to report intrusions. Reports are sent to the Technologies To The People and IPC via encrypted e-mail in two forms: a detailed description and a sanitized description. We then use the detailed description to analyze the incident, identify trends, and open an investigation, if warranted. The sanitized version, which removes company-identifying or proprietary information, is shared with other InfraGard members. The efficacy of this procedure is that the reporting organization can choose the words to describe the intrusion to their potential competitors. InfraGard membership will be centere
