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17th USENIX Security Symposium Premieres Live Streaming for Greater Accessibility
Thursday, July 17, 2008
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The 17th USENIX Security
Symposium, http://www.usenix.org/events/sec08/, taking place July
28-Aug. 1 in San Jose, once again delivers a top-notch conference agenda that
covers the spectrum of today's most pressing security challenges, including a
keynote address delivered by Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State, and
talks by security experts from companies including Google and VMware.
This year's USENIX Security Symposium offers live video streaming of
portions of the conference, making it possible to attend the conference
remotely. USENIX and Linux Pro Magazine are teaming to broadcast two tutorials
and the entire invited talks track of the conference. For those who don't have
time to watch in real-time, all the talks can be reviewed individually at the
viewers convenience in the archive. The live streaming of the keynote will be
open to everyone. Sign-up is available for live streaming at:
http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/program_usenixsec08.htm.
Whether attending in-person or remotely, security professionals,
researchers, and system and network administrators can add to their security
expertise with a two-day training program offering eight full-day tutorials on
the latest topics such as botnets, computer forensics, securing virtual
environments, and understanding and deploying trusted hardware.
California Secretary of State Bowen kicks off the three days of invited
talks with a keynote address, "Dr. Strangevote or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Paper Ballot." Hugh Thompson, People Security,
discusses, "Hackernomics;" Darren Lacey, Johns Hopkins University/John Hopkins
Medicine, explores, "Managing Insecurity: Practitioner Reflections on Social
Costs of Security;" Tal Garfinkel, VMware, examines, "Enterprise Security in
the Brave New (Virtual) World;" and Niels Provos, Google, discusses, "The
Ghost in the Browser and Other Frightening Stories About Web Malware."
USENIX continues it reputation for delivering the best new research by
selecting 27 refereed papers in a variety of subject areas, including Web
security, voting and trusted systems, privacy, and botnet detection.
There are also a variety of workshops held in conjunction with the main
conference, including EVT '08 (2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting
Technology Workshop), July 28-29; CSET '08 (Workshop on Cyber Security
Experimentation and Test) on July 28; WOOT '08 (2nd USENIX Workshop on
Offensive Technologies) on July 28; HotSec '08 (3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot
Topics in Security) on July 29; and MetriCon 3.0 (Third Workshop on Security
Metrics) on July 29.
About the USENIX Association
USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. For over 30 years,
it has been the leading community for engineers, system administrators,
scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing
world. USENIX conferences are the essential meeting grounds for the
presentation and discussion of technical advances in all aspects of computing
systems. For more information about the USENIX Association, visit
http://www.usenix.org/.
Press Badges and Registration
For complimentary press badges contact Wendy Grubow at 831-626-7503 or
wendy@usenix.org
SOURCE USENIX Association
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