The Conference Board's 2005 Corporate Security, Business Continuity and Crises Management Conference

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. October 14, 2008

NEW YORK, NY, October 6. 2005. Senior executives, government officials, policy experts and other thought leaders will examine the timely issue of emerging threats to the corporation, and strategies to detect, deter, and defuse crises. The Conference Board's 2005 Corporate Security, Business Continuity, and Crisis Management Conference will be held November 17-18 at the Westin New York at Times Square.

The meeting, designed to address business response to the world crises of the past year, is presented with assistance from Guardsmark and in collaboration with ASIS International, the International Security Management Association, and Business Executives for National Security.

"Threats to corporations today seem more extensive, complex, and dangerous than ever," says Kempton Dunn, Director, Program Development, The Conference Board. "The Hurricane Katrina tragedy, for example, was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Some companies were caught off guard and paid the price. This event carries a strong message to companies that there are dangers in limiting investment in security, continuity, crisis preparedness, disaster relief and related operations. These and other issues will be addressed."

Conference sessions designed to help corporations stay secure and vital include:

SS Opening Keynote: Global Economic, Strategic and Political Risk: A Corporate Perspective. To be delivered by The Honorable Thomas R. Pickering, Senior Vice President, International Relations, The Boeing Company, and Former U.S. Under Secretary of State and Ambassador to the United Nations, India and Russia.

SS Luncheon Keynote: Crisis Preparedness and Response: The Role of Business in the Community. To be delivered by The Honorable Joseph F. Bruno, Commissioner, Office of Emergency Management, New York City, and Former Commissioner, NYC Fire Department, and Justice, NYS Supreme Court.

SS War and Terrorism: Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Threats. The speaker for this session will be Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense and Author, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. The session will be chaired by Stephen E. Flynn, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Commander (ret.) United States Coast Guard and Author, America the Vulnerable: How our Government is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism.

SS Threats to IT Security: From Cyberrisk and Cyberterrorism to Identity Theft and Espionage. This session will feature Tom Hoffman, Editor-at-Large, Computerworld, and Joel Rakow, e-Crimes Practice Lead, Tatum Partners.

SS Homeland Security and the Corporation will be addressed by Jack Lichtenstein, Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy, ASIS International; Richard B. Cooper, Business Liaison Director, Private Sector, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Eric White, Director, Global Readiness, Homeland Security, and Travel Safety, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

SS Corporate Crime and Corruption: Influencing Integrity Compliance. This topic will be addressed by Weldon L. Kennedy, Vice Chairman, Guardsmark, LLC, Former Deputy Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Francis D'Addario, Vice President, Partner and Asset Protection, Starbucks Coffee Company and Author, Loss Prevention through Crime Analysis, and Garry Mathiason, Senior Partner, Littler Mendelson.

SS Natural and Random Disasters: The Corporate Response. This session will feature Dr. Mark Sanna, Senior Director, Global Security, Kraft Foods, Inc., and R.P. Eddy, Managing Director, Security Information Services, Gerson Lehrman Group and Former Director of Counterterrorism & National Security Council, The White House.

SS Threats to the Global Corporation: Security and Business Continuity Strategies. This topic will be addressed by Frank Schurgers, Managing Director, Prevent AG, Former Director, Crisis and Security Management, Imperial Tobacco Group/REEMTSMA, Hamburg, Germany.

SS Integration and/or Convergence?-Designs to Link Physical and IT Security. This session will feature Bryan S. Ware, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist, Digital Sandbox, Inc. and Matt J. Dircks, Vice President, Security Management Products, NetiQ.

SS The Business Case for Security/Business Continuity. This topic will be addressed by Timothy T. Janes, Director, Corporate Security Services, Capital One Financial Corporation, and Thomas E. Cavanagh, Senior Research Associate, Global Corporate Citizenship and Council Representative, Council of Corporate Security Executives, The Conference Board.

SS Crisis Leadership and Strategic Communications: Promoting Strategic Recovery. This session will feature Bruce T. Blythe, Chief Executive Officer, Crisis Management International, Inc.; Vincent T. Covello, Director, Center for Risk Communication and Author, Handbook on Communicating Effectively in Emergencies; Richard C. Hyde, Executive Vice President and U.S. Director of Crisis Communications, Hill & Knowlton.