Cybercop Portal makes offer PFI can’t refuse…
The ESP (Extranet Secure Portals) Group LLC, a Virginia-based Application Service Provider and the designer of the Cybercop Secure Portal, is generously providing their services and resources to all PFI members at no cost to the organization or it’s membership. PFI member Kevin Manson, one of the founders and administrators for the Cybercop Portal, is responsible for facilitating this terrific arrangement.

“The ESP Group LLC was established to commercialize the secure portal technologies developed for The Extranet for Security Professionals (The ESP), developed at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It was created at DARPA and matured at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute.
The ESP Group LLC now operates The ESP for the Government and has successfully transferred the technology to clients that it serves in the public and private sectors. The ESP is well known in the Government's Security Community.
The team that developed The ESP's technology formed the ESP Group LLC to manage The ESP. They specialize in building, hosting and customizing web-based applications for organizations that need to share sensitive information over the Internet (espgroup.net)”.

The Cybercop Portal created and hosted by The ESP Group emphasizes security through its network architecture and its underlying rights-based applications. The Portal allows users to share libraries of documents and case studies, send secure e-mail, participate in ongoing threaded discussions, create and distribute surveys and share online briefings.

PFI Member Kevin Manson is the director of Cybercop.org, a non-profit educational organization. His public service career spans all three branches of governmental service. He is a Senior Instructor with the Financial Fraud Institute at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) where he co-ordinates the internet forensics and investigators training prgrams.

In 1993, while an instructor with the FLETC Legal Division, he pioneered Internet training for the federal law enforcement community.

He chaired the first panel to provide Congressional testimony from a law enforcement perspective about protecting children on the Internet.
His web page, Cybercop.org, was the first to be included in the Congressional Record.
His involvement in High tech law enforcement issues was referenced in the January 23, 1995 US News cover story on Policing Cyberspace and a 1997 BBC television special airing in the UK on the History of the Internet. Kevin’s training, education and experience is diverse and extensive. His enthusiastic approach to learning and teaching is truly motivational and out-matched only by his incredible energy level. Our sincere thanks to Kevin Manson , Matt Donlon and The ESP Group.

PFI members who wish to use the Cybercop Portal must register with The ESP Group. For security reasons this process begins with PFI submitting member names and contact information to The ESP Group. PFI members will then be invited via email and further instructions will be provided once contact is made. If you are already a PFI member but you have not set-up your registration for the Cybercop Portal you will need to contact the PFI Administrative Assistant at: 859-622-2365 or spfi@eku.edu