NPC Newsmaker News Conference: Terrorism, Security and Corporate America: Who's doing what? What is it costing?

6/24/2003

From: Vicki Contavespi, 703-518-1466, or Frank Tortorici, 212-339-0231, or Mark Hamrick of NPC, 202-662-7593

News Advisory:

What: National Press Club Newsmaker News Conference: Terrorism, Security and Corporate America: Who's doing what? What is it costing?

When: 10 a.m., Wednesday, July 9

Who:

-- Conference Board's Tom Cavanagh

-- ASIS Director of Government Affairs Jack Lichtenstein

Where: National Press Club, National Press Building (13th Floor), 14th & F Streets NW, Washington, D.C.

Details:

The Conference Board, the world's leading business research group, will announce findings from the first comprehensive study on security spending patterns by companies in the wake of September 11. ASIS International, the preeminent organization for security professionals worldwide, sponsors the study.

The report will present the experiences of more than 330 corporate security directors, risk managers, and security officers in a wide variety of American firms. The findings show spending patterns according to company size and type of company, and will also include a special look at the soaring costs of insurance and risk management.