San Diego Supercomputer Center security expert to present at AUUG Symposium

[Liz Carroll]

San Diego Supercomputer Center security expert to present at AUUG Symposium
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With just under 2 weeks to go, now is the time to register for the AUUG
Security Tutorial and the Systems Administration Symposium.

Online registration is available at:
http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/sysadmin/olr.html

The tutorial will be held in Sydney on Tuesday 5 July, Melbourne Tuesday 12
July and the symposium in Sydney only, on Wednesday, 6 July.

SECURITY TUTORIAL

Abe Singer's tutorial on "Logging Infrastructure and Log Analysis"
ultimately to help the system administrator learn more about what is
happening on their systems and networks.

Abe Singer is a respected Open Systems security expert with the Security
Technologies Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Abe has served as an expert witness for the US Department of Justice in
cases of illegal intrusion and has been named "Investigator of the Year"
by the High Tech Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA).

As a bonus, Abe will also be presenting a paper at the Systems
Administration symposium (Sydney only) entitled "Security Without
Firewalls" that will challenge the industry wide preoccupation with
firewalls and back this up with his real life experience in networks
containing thousands of machines.

More information on the security tutorial is available online at
http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/sysadmin/

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION SYMPOSIUM

The AUUG Systems Administration Symposium, is a chance to expand your
knowledge, meet with domain experts and peers, and discuss the
administration of Unix, Linux, MAC OS X and heterogeneous systems that
include Windows. Presentations will include:

    * "Automated Monitoring Of PC Hardware", Frank Crawford, ac3
    * "Which Linux Filesytem?", Dr Peter Chubb, Gelato at UNSW
    * "Firewall Redundancy and Failover - The Thousand Dollar
      Challenge", Adrian Close, Hitwise
    * "Solaris Network Performance Considerations", David Purdue, Sun
      Microsystems
    * "Patch Management Through Automated Baseline Management Services",
      Rodney Lindner, Sun Microsystems
    * "Minimising Threats By Keeping Red Hat And Related Systems Up To
      Date", Frank Crawford, ac3
    * "Security Without Firewalls", Abe Singer, San Diego Supercomputer
      Center

The full symposium programme is available online at
http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/sysadmin/

Attendees of both the Logging Tutorial and the Systems Administration
Symposium receive a $100 discount.