National Webcast Initiative

~ Identity Theft ~
The crime that keeps on Taking!

Thursday, February 16, 2006

The tenth session in the National Webcast Initiative series took place on February 16, 2006. Over 1,200 individuals representing 6 countries registered for this event. The topic of the webcast was “Identity Theft” with a featured presentation by D. Scott Parsons , Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Howard A. Schmidt , CISSP, CISM, President & CEO R & H Security Consulting LLC, Former Chair of President Bush’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and Special Adviser for Cyberspace Security for the White House, Joseph Martucci , Senior Security Engineer, Symantec Consulting Services, and Mr. William Pelgrin, Chair of the MS-ISAC.

ID Theft can affect each one of us, at any time. Between January and December 2005, Consumer Sentinel, the complaint database developed and maintained by the FTC, received over 685,000 consumer fraud and identity theft complaints. Consumers reported losses from fraud of more than $680 million. In today's society, anyone can be a potential target of identity theft - from our children to our senior citizens. As a result, the impact can be staggering – in terms of financial loss, time and resources expended to respond, legal liabilities, and ultimately, a loss of consumer confidence.

The February 16 th broadcast addressed all of these issues, focusing on what ID Theft is, how to protect yourself, and what to do if you think you may have become a victim. The presenters walked through a variety of scenarios to help explain these concepts and provided specific advice on what steps to take.

Identity theft is a growing crime – it’s the crime that keeps on taking!
Learn how to "NOT" be one of those statistics.

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The Department of Homeland Security US-CERT and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have partnered to establish the National Webcast Initiative to develop a series of national webcasts which will examine critical and timely cyber security issues. Embracing the concept that security is everyone’s responsibility, these webcasts will be available to a broad audience to help raise awareness and knowledge levels. A number of vendors have offered their services at no cost to government, to help develop and deliver the webcasts.

The National Webcast Initiative is also coordinated by the New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination(New Window) and the New York State Forum(New Window) .

If you have any questions, please contact 518/473-4383 or email to isac@cscic.state.ny.us .