Schneier: Two Years After 9/11 - Are We Any Safer?

[R. A. Hettinga]

<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=109-09112003>


Two Years After 9/11 - Are We Any Safer? Author Bruce Schneier to Present Book on Security at National Press Club Sept. 12 

9/11/03 10:57:00 AM 

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor 

Contact:  Katharine Myers of Copernicus Books,           212-228-0175 ext. 216, katharine at copernicusbooks.com 

News Advisory: 

We have the Patriot Act, tighter screening at airports, a proposed national I.D. Card system, a color-coded national alert system, irradiated mail, and a Department of Homeland Security, but do all of these things really make us any less vulnerable to another terrorist attack? 

In "BEYOND FEAR: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World" (September 4, 2003/$25.00 hardcover), security expert Bruce Schneier provides a simple, 5-point plan for evaluating any kind of security system from the basic to the complex.  And, he evaluates the systems that we currently -- post 9/11 -- have in place, revealing which of them actually work and which ones are simply "security theatre." 

EVENT: Bruce Schneier with special guest Marc Rotenberg 

DATE: Friday, September 12 

TIME: 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. 

Continental breakfast will be served 

PLACE: The National Press Club,           529 14th Street NW -- Zenger Room,           Washington, DC 

-- With special guest, Marc Rotenberg 

CONTACT: Katharine Myers at 212-228-0175 ext. 216 or katharine at copernicusbooks.com for more information, a review copy and a press kit. 

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About Bruce Schneier author of "BEYOND FEAR: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World" 

Publication date: September 4, 2003, $25.00 hardcover 

BRUCE SCHNEIER has been called "the security guru" by The Economist and "one of the foremost internet security experts" by Wired. He rose to fame in 1994 with the publication of his book "Applied Cryptography," which has sold more than 200,000 copies. Wired called it "the book the National Security Agency never wanted to be published" and "the definitive text on the subject." His next bestseller, Secrets and Lies, came out in 2000 and has sold more than 100,000 copies.  Business Week declared that "Secrets and Lies belongs in every manager's library." 

Schneier is the creator of the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms and is the CTO and Co-Founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.  Counterpane is a Fortune 2000 company that monitors Internet systems.  Its client list includes Schering Plough, Boeing, and FedEx, among many others.  Schneier also publishes a monthly security newsletter called Cryptogram.  With a subscriber base of 100,000, it is one of the most widely read online security newsletters. 

Schneier has testified on security policies before the United States Senate and has been featured in popular fiction books such as "Cryptonomicon," the best-selling science fiction title by Neal Stephenson, and the "The Da Vinci Code," a thriller by Dan Brown that is currently atop The New York Times Bestseller List. 

Schneier is frequently featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, and many other top national news outlets. He has published op-eds in The San Francisco Chronicle and was the subject of a recent cover story in The Atlantic Monthly (see attached) on national security. 

Bruce Schneier spends over two thirds of his time traveling to do lectures.  In the past few months he talked to the FAA about airline security and to a European military cyber security conference sponsored by NATO. 

Contact:  Katharine Myers at 212-228-0175 ext. 216; Katharine at copernicusbooks.com or Megan Butler at 631-547-0993; mbutler1 at optonline.net .

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