FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

IT Professionals Guard Against Disaster at
First Annual Software Security Summit

Call for Speakers now open for new technology conference, schedule for mid-April 2005 in San Diego

Huntington, N.Y., November 23, 2004 - BZ Media LLC today announced the Software Security Summit™, the industry's first technology conference focused on helping IT managers and software professionals improve the security of the software that they are currently designing and developing, and also secure the software that they already own.

Alan Zeichick, Conference Chairman of the Software Security Summit, said, "Software is vulnerable! Enterprises have spent millions of dollars installing network firewalls and Virtual Private Networks, but the real danger is in poorly written applications and platforms. Worms exploit unchecked buffers. Hackers break in through a Web site's front door: its user interface. And too little is being done to address this impending crisis."

The Software Security Summit, to be held April 12-14, 2005, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla, in San Diego, Calif., will help development managers, software architects, applications programmers, and other IT professionals understand the specific security weaknesses in their software infrastructure.

Attendees will gain the skills to combat existing security problems and learn how to develop new systems that are architected from the ground up to resist exploitation.

Zeichick said, "Unlike other IT security conferences, which focus on firewalling the network, the Software Security Summit gets right to the heart of today's biggest challenge: protecting the software running on servers and desktop systems. That's why the Software Security Summit teaches from the perspective of the entire software development life cycle, from architecture to coding to testing to deployment."

The conference will consist of one full day of tutorials and two days of technical classes. More than 400 attendees are expected at this exclusive, timely and topical conference. In addition to the technical classes, 30 sponsors are expected to demonstrate their security products and services at a separate expo hall.

The Call for Speakers is now open at http://www.s-3con.com. Proposals for full-day tutorials and technical classes are due by December 10, 2004.