FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS 5th USENIX UNIX Security Symposium June 5-7, 1995 Salt Lake City Marriott Hotel Salt Lake City, Utah Sponsored by the USENIX Association, the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association In cooperation with: The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), IFIP WG 11.4, and UniForum IMPORTANT DATES DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS Extended abstracts due: Feb 13, 1995 Program Committee decisions made: Mar 8, 1995 Camera-ready final papers due: May 1, 1995 Registration Materials Available: March 1995 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Chair: Fred Avolio, Trusted Information Systems, Inc. Steve Bellovin, AT&T Bell Laboratories Bill Cheswick, AT&T Bell Laboratories Ed DeHart, CERT Ed Gould, Digital Equipment Corporation Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems, Inc. Jeff Schiller, MIT Gene Spafford, COAST Laboratory, Purdue University OVERVIEW The goal of this symposium is to bring together security practitioners, researchers, system administrators, systems programmers, and others with an interest in computer security as it relates to networks and the UNIX operating system. This will be a 3 day, single-track symposium. The symposium will consist of tutorials, refereed and invited technical presentations, and panel sessions. The first day will be devoted to tutorial presentations. Two days of technical sessions will follow the tutorials. TUTORIALS [June 5] This one-day tutorial program is designed to address the needs of both technical and management attendees. The tutorials will supply overviews of various security mechanisms and policies. Each will provide specifics to the system and site administrator for implementing numerous local and network security precautions, firewalls, and monitoring systems. KEYNOTE AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS [June 6-7] The keynote address by Stephen T. Walker, Founder and President of Trusted Information Systems, will begin the technical sessions program. Mr. Walker will speak on information security and privacy in computing. Mr. Walker is an electronics engineer and computer systems analyst with over 25 years of experience in system design and program management; particularly extensive is his experience with the design and implementation of large scale computer networks and information systems. He is nationally recognized for his pioneering work on the DoD Computer Security Initiative, the establishment of the National Computer Security Center, and the formation of the Defense Data Network. He is a member of the Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board, established by the Computer Security Act of 1987. The technical sessions program, in addition to presentations of refereed papers, will include invited talks, and possibly panel sessions. There will also be two evenings available for Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) and Works-in-Progress Reports (WiPs). The program committee invites you to submit proposals, ideas, or suggestions for these presentations; your suggestions may be submitted to the program chair via email to: securitypapers@usenix.org or by post to the address given below. Papers that have been formally reviewed and accepted will be presented during the symposium and published in the symposium proceedings. Proceedings of the symposium will be published by USENIX and will be provided free to technical session attendees; additional copies will be available for purchase from USENIX. SYMPOSIUM TOPICS Presentations are being solicited in areas including but not limited to: *User/system authentication *File system security *Network security *Security and system management *Security-enhanced versions of the UNIX operating system *Security tools *security incident investigation and response *computer misuse and anomaly detection *security in heterogeneous environments *configuration management to support security *security-related testing methods *case studies REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be received by Feb 13, 1995. Full papers should be 10 to 15 pages. Instead of a full paper, authors may submit an extended abstract which discusses key ideas. Extended abstracts should be 5-7 pages long (about 2500-3500 words), not counting references and figures. The body of the extended abstract should be in complete paragraphs. The object of an extended abstract is to convince the reviewers that a good paper and presentation will result. All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, and correctness. Each accepted submission will be assigned a member of the program committee to act as its shepherd through the preparation of the final paper. The assigned member will act as a conduit for feedback from the committee to the authors. Camera-ready final papers are due May 1, 1995. Please accompany each submission by a cover letter stating the paper title and authors along with the name of the person who will act as the contact to the program committee. Please include a surface mail address, daytime and evening phone number, and, if available, an email address and fax number for the contact person. If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission and examples of extended abstracts, you may send email to: securityauthors@usenix.org or telephone the USENIX Association office at +1 510 528 8649. The UNIX Security Symposium, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by "non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. WHERE TO SUBMIT Please send one copy of a full paper or an extended abstract to the program committee via two of the following methods. All submissions will be acknowledged. o Preferred Method: email (Postscript or ASCII) to: securitypapers@usenix.org o Alternate Method: postal delivery to Fred Avolio Trusted Information Systems 3060 Washington Road Glenwood, MD 21738 +1 410 442 1673 o Fax: +1 301 854 5363 REGISTRATION MATERIALS Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial programs, registration fees and forms, and hotel information will be available beginning in March 1995. If you wish to receive the registration materials, please contact USENIX at: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA USA 92630 +1 714 588 8649; Fax: +1 714 588 9706 email: conference@usenix.org