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Path: sparky!uunet!concert!borg.cs.unc.edu!not-for-mail From: howell@cs.unc.edu (William Howell) Newsgroups: triangle.talks Subject: SANS-II Conference Announcement Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:36:21 -0500 Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 361 Message-ID: <1jsdolINNo91@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hatteras.cs.unc.edu **************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND EARLY REGISTRATION ANNOUNCEMENT SANS-II **************************************** The 1993 World Conference On Tools and Techniques for System Administration, Networking, and Security April 19-23, 1993 Washington, DC (Arlington, VA) 301-229-1062 SANS@FEDUNIX.ORG FedUNIX The USENIX Association ======= ====================== and SAGE (The System Administrators Guild) ====================================== are pleased to announce the second international conference combining system administration, network management, and security (SANS-II) to be held at the Stouffers Concourse Hotel in Arlington, Virginia from April 19 through 23, 1993. SANS-II offers authoritative courses and a forum in which systems administrators, network managers, and security experts can exchange practical information, share new ideas, and evaluate new tools. SANS-II expands on the highly-acclaimed 1992 World Conference on System Administration and Security Conference by including network management issues. SANS-II continues the tradition of focusing exclusively on practical solutions to today's problems. It also provides a unique opportunity to review the newest support tools and focuses on how those tools will interact to lower the costs of managing distributed computing. ************ Pre-Announcement Information ********** Registration Dates: ================== Alumni Registration Deadline: January 30, 1993. (For those who attended the 1992 System Administration and Security Conference or the 1992 LISA Conference.) Early Bird Registration Deadline: March 10, 1993. Abstract and Paper Submission Dates: =================================== Final Due Date for Abstracts: January 22 Decisions Announced: Rolling from Jan. 15 - Feb. 10, 1993 Camera-Ready Papers Due: March 12, 1993 Conference Dates: ================= Courses: April 19-20, 1993 Technical Conference: April 21-23, 1993 Theme: ===== Practical solutions for cost-effective system administration, network management, and security in networks of UNIX computers. Who Should Attend: ================= System administrators, security administrators, network administrators, network managers, technology managers, computer installation managers, and their staff. In addition, a limited number of places are available for staff members from organizations that offer off-the-shelf software and hardware products that support system administration, network management, and security in UNIX computing environments. Location: ======== Stouffer Concourse Hotel, 2399 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia (at National Airport) Telephone: 703-418-6800 Why You Should Participate: ========================== Three forces are making the jobs of system, network, and security administrators more and more difficult: 1. growing, heterogeneous networks adding complexity to every system administration task and increasing the risks of security breaches. 2. growth of the number and size of files making systems management far more difficult and time consuming. 3. pressure to do more with fewer people increasing the stress. These challenges are particularly apparent and frustrating in the government agencies (both in the US and abroad), universities, and companies which have been in the vanguard of the move to open systems and networks of UNIX computers. An extra reason to attends SANS over any other system administration conference is the recent emergence of commercial automated management tools that can reduce the burden. This conference will give you a chance to understand what these tools are and where they can help. SANS-II is designed to identify the current state of the art for cost- effective systems and network administration and security so that the techniques and tools used by the most effective managers can be adopted by those still looking for solutions. Papers, Courses, and Other Conference Sessions: ============================================== Peer-reviewed papers will be complemented with invited papers. In addition, a special "Tools Track" will provide a chance for the delegates to learn how each of the most important commercial systems management and network management tools actually work, through technical briefings. This track will be especially important to the organizations (especially government and large commercial users) that are attempting to move toward commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software for systems management. There is no requirement to attend this track as there will be technical paper sessions running simultaneously. In addition to peer-reviewed and invited papers, the conference will provide more than a dozen full-day courses taught by several of America's top-rated instructors. Tutorial topics include System Administration, Advanced Topics In System Administration, UNIX Network Administration, UNIX Internals, UNIX Security, Advanced UNIX Security, Security Policy and Procedures, and others. Additional sessions brought back by popular demand: "Ask the Experts" sessions where you'll find practical answers to your questions. "Best Of The Net" session where you'll learn which free programs available from the net are most useful. "Tips and Techniques" sessions in which conference attendees can share, in 5-minute presentations, their favorite techniques for solving recurring problems. These sessions are run as moderated BOFs with all conference attendees being asked, in advance, to contribute if they choose. "Ask OSF" session where you can learn from the people who brought you DCE and are bringing you DME. Informal Birds Of A Feather sessions in the evening to expand the sharing time. Please send your suggestions for topics with your registration. **************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************** Papers are being sought for the technical conference from sysadmins, system managers, security managers, network administrators, consultants, academics, and hardware and software developers. You don't have to have made a major breakthrough to have your paper accepted. The delegates will be looking for good problem definitions and practical solutions. And your presentation does not have to be long. You may choose a 15, 30, or 45 minute time slot. Formal Review Program ===================== Papers that have been formally reviewed and accepted will be presented during the conference and will be published in the conference proceedings. The review committee is composed of experts on system administration, network management, and security along with managers of large installations and architects from the vendor community. Its members include: Matt Bishop (Dartmouth), Tom Christiansen (Convex), Dave Brillhart (Harris Semiconductor), Elizabeth Zwicky and Brian McDonald (both of SRI), Norman Kincl (Hewlett Packard), Paul Moriarty (CISCO), Michele Crabb (NASA Ames), Bruce Hunter (Intel), Dale Pfaff (US Naval Research Laboratory), William Howell (University of North Carolina), Marcus Ranum (Digital Equipment Corp.) and Rob Kolstad (Berkeley Software Design) The committee will decide whether your abstract addresses important challenges (large or small), whether your approach seems promising, or whether your abstract should be accepted for any other reason. Topics: ======= Please feel free to submit abstract on any topics. The list provided below may help prompt some ideas: System Administration and Security 1. Making Backup Less Painful 2. Mail Handling 3. Managing Heterogeneous Systems 4. Automating Console Operations 5. System Scheduling and Monitoring 6. Better Storage Solutions 7. Accounting and Chargeback 8. Off-The-Shelf Tools 9. Tools You Don't Like and Why 10. Security and Audit Management 11. Security Policies 12. Policies and Procedures On the Network 13. OSF's DCE and DME 14. Training and Education 15. Techniques For Dealing With Users Network Management and Security 1. Managing heterogeneous networks 2. Policies and procedures on the network 3. Security policies 4. Network security monitoring 5. Network monitoring and performance testing 6. Training and education 7. Techniques for dealing with users 8. Networked backup schemes 9. Distributed mail systems 10. Domain Name Service configuration 11. Distributed console access 12. OSF's DCE and DME 13. Off-the-shelf tools 14. Tools you don't like and why Abstracts: ========= A good abstract will be 500 to 1,500 words in length and include the following: 1. A description of the problem(s) and its importance. 2. Your solution including details of how it worked. If this is work on emerging technology, try to show what the expected impact will be. If your solution is based on commercial hardware or software tools, name them. (Abstracts from software vendors are welcome, and will be considered as part of the tools track or the regular paper sessions depending on their focus.) 3. Data on how well it works: before/after comparisons, direct savings, trade-offs, etc. 4. Lessons learned and what you might have done differently. Please also provide the following information about the author(s): name, title, organization, daytime telephone, surface mail address, email address (please), FAX if possible. Finally, tell whether you want a 15, 30 or 45 minute time slot for your presentation. Where to send your abstracts: ============================ Papers Chairman Alan Paller FedUNIX 4610 Tournay Road Bethesda, MD 20816 Questions or ASCII format abstracts may be submitted via email to paller@fedunix.org Conference Office Telephone 301-229-1062 If you don't want to submit an abstract, but do want to receive published registration materials, please send an email to SANS@FEDUNIX.org or a letter to the FedUNIX address above. Registration fees: ================= Alumni: Conference $325, Conference and one course $595, Conference and two courses $775 (These discounted prices are valid only until the February 15 deadline.) All Others (and Alumni After February 15): Conference $395, Conference and one course $670, Conference and two courses $895. Late registration fee of $50 after March 24, 1992. SANS-II: Early Registration Form Name: ___________________________________________________________ Title: __________________________________________________________ Organization: ___________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Telephone: ______________________________________________________ Email: __________________________________________________________ Please check the appropriate line: __ Register me for the conference only __ Register me for the conference and one course __ Register me for the conference and two courses (If we have to schedule the two courses you want on the same day and you don't want to attend any other, we'll refund the difference.) Total fee: (from the previous page) ____________ ___ Check Enclosed ___ Federal Purchase Order Enclosed ___ Charge my credit card: ___ AMEX ___ Mastercard ___ VISA Number: ________________________________________ Expires (date): __________________________________ Your signature ______________________________________________ Please check your first and second choices for courses so we can try to arrange the courses on days that maximize your chance to attend your top two choices:: ___ UNIX System Internals ___ UNIX Fundamentals ___ OSF DCE (Two Days) ___ OSF DME ___ Basic UNIX Security ___ Advanced UNIX Security ___ Practical PERL Programming ___ Introduction To TCP/IP ___ UNIX Network Programming ___ UNIX System Administration ___ UNIX Network Administration ___ Advanced Topics In System Administration Part I ___ Advanced Topics In System Administration: Part II Return this form, with your check to SANS-II, 4610 Tournay Road, Bethesda, MD 20816 or FAX it to 301-229-1063 if you are using a credit card.