Usenix Security Symposium: San Diego, August 9-13

Fri Jun 18 13:32:01 PDT 2004

Hi baylisa folks:

See the conference announcement below: please let me know if this is 
not an appropriate posting, we don't want to be perceived as spamming.

Also, there's a PDF flier and links for the conference available at 
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec04/promote.html.  Can you please help 
us promote the conference by forwarding this announcement, putting 
links on your websites and/or distributing flyers as appropriate?

Feel free to contact me anytime with questions.  Thanks! -Peter

Peter Mui
USENIX Association
2560 9th Street STE 215
Berkeley, CA 94710
510 528 8649 ext. 28
pmui at usenix.org)

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Register now for the 13th USENIX Security Symposium August 9–13, 2004, 
San Diego, CA

It happens here first: join us for the latest advances in computer 
system security. As with previous security symposiums, the breadth and 
quality of this year’s tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and 
participants is excellent.  For the entire program and to register, 
visit http://www.usenix.org/sec04/progm

Highlights of this year's program include:

TUTORIALS: working experts give you the information, techniques, tools, 
and strategies you need to practice effective security tomorrow:

o  NEW! - Richard Bejtlich: Network Security Monitoring with Open 
Source Tools
o  Marcus Ranum: Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
o  NEW! - Brad Johnson: Network Security Profiles: Protocol Threats, 
Intrusion Classes, and How Hackers Find Exploits
o  NEW! - Marcus Ranum: System Log Aggregation, Statistics, and Analysis
o  NEW! - Gary McGraw: Building a Software Security Capability: How to 
Foster Best Practices in Software Security
o  Radia Perlman: Network Security Protocols: Theory and Current 
Standards
o  NEW! - David Rhoades: Network Security Assessments Workshop
o  NEW! - Moti Young: Malicious Cryptography

PAPERS and INVITED TALKS: luminaries such as Steve Bellovin, Niels 
Provos, Kevin Fu, Peter Szor, Ari Juels, Cindy Cohn and Gary McGraw 
will present cutting-edge issues in topics such as:

o  RFID security and privacy
o  how Symantec fights virus attacks
o  independent security research and the law
o  exploiting software to break code
o  military strategy in cyberspace
o  what biology can (and can't) teach us about security

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and Work-in-Progress reports give you a 
preview of next year's news, or present fledgling work of your own and 
get feedback from the audience.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: William "Earl" Boebert of Sandia National Lab will 
review his 30-year association with research into "predictable 
systems," that is, those that can be reasoned about a priori.

WHAT:       13th USENIX Security Symposium
WHEN:      August 9–13, 2004
WHERE:   San Diego, CA, Town & Country Resort Hotel
WHO:         Researchers, System Administrators, Policy Wonks, etc.
WHY:         To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer security
HOW:         Register NOW at http://www.usenix.org/sec04/progm

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