IISP - April 5, 1996 News Release

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY PANEL FOCUSES ON SECURING
FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS IN CYBERSPACE

NEW YORK, April 5, 1996 -- Are Americans risking their funds in on-line 
banking? Are credit card transactions on the Internet secure? Can our 
financial privacy be invaded easily in Cyberspace?

These are some of the issues being addressed by the Information 
Infrastructure Standards Panel (IISP), a group of more than 80 companies, 
organizations, and government agencies working together under the aegis of 
the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).  IISP's objective is to 
identify the standards needed to facilitate the growth of the information 
superhighway by determining what standards exist, where new standards 
development work is needed, and by ensuring that those standards are created 
and ready in a timely fashion.

Speakers at a recent IISP meeting in Washington, D.C. reviewed varying 
perspectives of ensuring financial and information security in Cyberspace 
and focused on the role of standards in developing methods to increase 
security.  Separately, the panel approved six new application to application 
standards needs; these will be added to the 35 standards previously 
identified as key requirements (http://www.ansi.org/iisp/needlist.html).

"Security is one of the most central and complex issues in implementing the 
information superhighway," said ANSI Board Member Oliver Smoot, chairman of 
IISP and executive vice president of the Information Technology Industry 
Council. "Confidence that networks and information are appropriately secure 
is pivotal to the growth of the National and Global Information 
Infrastructure (NII/GII)."

"The threat, sophistication, and impact of security intrusion has increased 
dramatically," said John Kimmins, director, Secure Systems and Operations 
Group, Bellcore, who provided examples of methods "cybercrooks" use to break 
into networks to steal information.

Richard Nevins, director, Global Information Technology Infrastructure, AMP 
Incorporated, discussed security from the point of view of a company doing 
business on-line on private and public networks.  He cited the Intranet, 
which is bringing Internet capabilities to internal corporate networks, as a 
new challenge to company security.

According to Tim Schoechle, president, CyberLYNX Gateway Corp., despite 
consumer concerns about protecting their privacy on the Internet, the "smart 
home" of the future, with on-line access to and from many sources, may 
provide cybercrooks with "one-stop" shopping of personal information.

Smoot explained that IISP is working to identify the standards needed for 
networks-- among telecommunications, cable and broadcast/wireless companies, 
for example --that interconnect and operate compatibly.  For consumers, this 
will mean more choices of providers of services such as telephone, TV or 
cable, as well as lower cost and better service due to the resulting 
increased competition.

Some specific areas of standards requirements being addressed include: 
 health care informatics, application-to-network issues, nomadicity 
(facilitating access to services, people and content while "on the move"), 
entertainment, information security and encryption, and intellectual 
property rights.  The panel also is looking at standards needed for global 
coordination.

Standards needs identified by IISP are reviewed by more than 30 standards 
organizations to determine where the "gaps" are and where work is needed. 
 This is mostly done on-line.

IISP recently hosted a first of its kind roundtable of standards 
organizations that focused on standards that will tie cross-industry 
networks together.  Participants included the Internet Engineering Task 
Force, Committee T1-Telecommunications, National Cable Television 
Association, and the Electronic Industries Association.  Additional 
roundtables on topics such as electronic publishing are being planned.

IISP is a broad, cross-industry effort whose members represent sectors 
 --including information technology, telecommunications, cable television, 
banking, broadcast, intelligent transport, medical and wireless -- that are 
converging and interconnecting.  Panel members include Hewlett-Packard, 
Motorola, Apple Computer, IBM, AT&T, the National Association of 
Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission, and National Institute of 
Standards & Technology.

Information on IISP, including membership and meeting schedules, as well as 
standards needs so far identified, is available on the panel's World Wide 
Web site (http://www.ansi.org/iisp/iisphome.html) or by contacting R.M. 
"Chick" Hayden (telephone: 212/642-4920; e-mail: chayden@ansi.org) or Peter 
Lefkin (telephone: 212/642-4979; e-mail: plefkin@ansi.org).  The panel's 
next meeting is scheduled for June 18-19, 1996 at the Embassy Suites Hotel 
in Alexandria, Va.

ANSI is a private non-profit organization that coordinates the U.S. 
voluntary standards system, bringing together interests from the private and 
public sectors to develop voluntary standards for a wide array of U.S. 
industries. ANSI is the official U.S. member body to the world's leading 
standards bodies -- the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 
and via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical 
Commission (IEC).  The Institute's membership includes approximately 1,300 
national and international companies and 285 government agencies, 
institutions and professional, technical, trade, educational, labor, and 
consumer organizations.




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