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Speakers Announced for the AUUG Security Symposium 2004

AUUG announces the speakers and program for the AUUG Security Symposium 2004 to be held on 20 February 2004 in Canberra.

SYDNEY, Australia -- 22 January, 2004 -- AUUG, the organisation for UNIX and Open Source professionals, today announced the speakers and program for the third annual AUUG Security Symposium. The symposium provides a forum for discussion of security technologies, techniques and management. Participants will come from government agencies, the academic sector, and local, national and international organizations.

The symposium is unashamedly for the practitioner in the field who wants to gain and share knowledge about how to secure their systems. It aims to fill a gap in the Australian conference scene between the high cost commercial conferences where attendees hear mainly marketing pitches and the academic based research conferences.

With the growing importance of Open Source, Open Standards and Interoperability to both Government and industry, the symposium is a valuable resource and meeting place for users, developers and vendors wanting to minimise security risks.

Symposium papers and speakers include:

• "Walls of Adamant, Foundations of Quicksand", Brian Denehy, 90East
• "Security Risk Management Overview", Dr Lawrie Brown, School of IT&EE, Australian Defence Force Academy
• "Linux Kernel Hacking for Network Security", Bob Edwards, Department of Computer Science, ANU
• "Single System Image security", Ian Latter, IT Services, Macquarie University
• "A New Approach for Defeating DDoS Attack", Wei Shi and Wanlei Zhou, School of Information Technology, Deakin University
• "Virtualisation", Dan Shearer
• "Online Authentication and Encryption Processes", John Brunker, National Archives of Australia
• "Applying PGP to combat spam and malware", Ben Elliston
• "Modern NetBSD Security Features", Luke Mewburn, The NetBSD Foundation
• "Running Services In an Emulator Sandbox", Rusty Russell, IBM Linux Technology Centre
• "I am Not a Target to Hackers", Ron Brandis, Electronic Warfare Associates

The full programme and abstracts for most papers can be view online at http://classic.auug.org.au/events/2004/security/

Those wishing to attend need to register using the form available at http://classic.auug.org.au/events/2004/security/Security-Symposium-Feb04-Rego-Form.p df

Key Partner in the event: Fortinet

The "AUUG Security Symposium 2004" will be held at the Novotel Canberra, 65 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra ACT on Friday, 20 February 2004.

Both AUUG members and non-members can attend with discounts for AUUG members, members of affiliated organizations and students. Registration for the symposium is $150 for AUUG members, $210 for non-members and $50 for students.

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