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Xref: sparky comp.unix.admin:4579 alt.security:4178 Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cert!ecd From: ecd@cert.sei.cmu.edu (Edward DeHart) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.security Subject: Usenix UNIX Security Symposium Hotel ALERT Keywords: Usenix UNIX Security Hotel Alert Message-ID: <1021@cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 18 Aug 92 18:21:47 GMT Organization: Computer Emergency Response Team, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 496 I've been asked to pass the following URGENT message to anyone interested in attending the Third Usenix UNIX Security Symposium. The Sheraton Inner Harbor hotel has just alerted the Usenix conference department that they are sold out of rooms for the Saturday night before the Symposium. They will probably sell all remaining sleeping rooms WHEN our hotel deadline of August 24 passes. The Baltimore Orioles will be in town for the entire week. The stadium is very close to the hotel and they have no problems selling rooms. There is a good chance that other hotels will also be sold out during the week of the Symposium. If you planning to attend this year's Symposium, please register as soon as possible and book your hotel rooms A.S.A.P. The good news is that we expect this year's Usenix UNIX Security Symposium will be the best one ever. The Symposium was originally advertised as having a single track. Due to the amount of interest and number of submissions, the Symposium has been expanded by the addition of a second track on Wednesday afternoon. I've included a copy of the program posted by the Usenix Association. Thanks, Ed DeHart Program Chairperson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= USENIX THIRD UNIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM Baltimore, MD September 14-16, 1992 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT SYMPOSIUM DATES & SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Pre-Registration Deadline: September 8, 1992 REGISTRATION FEES AFTER THAT DATE WILL BE $50 HIGHER! Hotel Reservation Deadline: August 24, 1992 Sunday, September 13 6:00pm - 9:00pm Registration/no host reception Monday, September 14 9:00am - 5:00pm Tutorial Presentations Tuesday, September 15 8:30 - 10:15 am Opening Remarks/Keynote Address 10:35 - 5:20 Technical Sessions 6:00pm - 8:00pm Symposium Reception 8:00pm - 10:00pm Birds of a Feather Sessions Wednesday, September 16 9:00am - 5:35pm Technical Sessions REGISTRATION INFORMATION Register in advance to receive the lowest registration rates. Attendance is limited in both the Tutorial Presentations and Technical Sessions and pre-registration is strongly recommended. You may register for only a tutorial, only the two-day technical sessions program OR select both programs. (See registration form at the end of this posting.) TUTORIAL REGISTRATION FEE September 14 One Full-day tutorial - Only one tutorial can be selected $245.00 ************ TECHNICAL SESSIONS REGISTRATION FEES September 15 - 16 *Member Fee $225.00 Non-member Fee 290.00 Full-time Student Fee - Must provide copy of student I.D. 75.00 *The member rate applies to current individual members of the USENIX Association, Sun User Group, EurOpen and AUUG. Full-time students please note: A limited number of scholarships are available for full-time students. Contact the Conference Office for details. Enjoy the Benefits of Becoming a USENIX Member - If you are not a current USENIX member and wish to join, pay the non-member fee on the registration form and check the special box requesting membership. $65 of your non-member fee will be designated as dues in full for a one-year individual USENIX Association membership. PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 8, 1992. REGISTRATION FEES AFTER THAT DATE WILL BE $50 HIGHER! HOTEL INFORMATION The Symposium headquarters will be: Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel ROOM RATES 300 South Charles Street $110 Single or Double Occupancy Baltimore, MD 21201 (plus State and city tax) Telephone # (410) 962-8300 To Make Your Reservation: Call the Hotel directly and ask for the Reservations Desk. Tell reservations that you are a USENIX Attendee to take advantage of our group rate. A one night's deposit is required for all reservations. Should you desire to cancel your reservation, you must notify the hotel at least 24 hours prior to your scheduled arrival. IMPORTANT: Room reservation deadline is August 24, 1992. Requests for reservations received after the deadline will be handled on a space and RATE available basis. ******************************* UNIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM The goal of this symposium is to bring together security practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and anyone with an interest in computer security as it relates to networks and the UNIX operating system. The symposium will consist of a broad range of topics including tutorials appropriate for a technical audience, peer-reviewer technical presentations and panel sessions. Attendees will have a unique opportunity to share their experiences and ideas on UNIX system security. TUTORIAL PROGRAM Monday, September 14, 1992 Network Security: The Kerberos Approach Dan Geer,Geer/Zolot Associates and Jon A. Rochlis, MIT Intended Audience: Systems developers responsible for networked workstation environments, particularly those whose environments may include networks which are not themselves physically secure (i.e., ``open'' networks) and systems managers concerned about the inherent lack of security for managing today's network-based environments (e.g., UNIX's .rhosts files). The amazing and constantly growing numbers of machines and users ensures that untrustworthy individuals have full access to the Internet. Given the increasing importance of the information transmitted, it is imperative to consider the basic security issues present as large open networks replace isolated timesharing systems. This tutorial will focus on the challenges of providing security for cooperative work arrangements consistent with the location and scale independence of today's open networking environment. Attendees will gain an understanding of the kinds of security threats which result from operating in an open environment, such as one composed of a network of workstations and supporting servers. Effective approaches to meeting these threats will be presented. Although emphasis will be on the Kerberos system developed at MIT, public key techniques for ensuring privacy and authentication on an open network will be explored. The X.509 authentication model and the new Internet Privacy Enhanced Electronic Mail RFC's will be discussed. Internet System Administrator's Tutorial Ed DeHart and Barb Fraser, Computer Emergency Response Team Intended Audience: This tutorial is designed for users and system administrators of UNIX systems. It is especially suited for system administrators of UNIX systems connected to a wide area network based on TCP/IP such as the Internet. Some system administrator experience is assumed. The information presented in this tutorial is based on incidents reported to the Computer Emergency Response Team. The topics covered include: System administration - defensive strategies oPassword selection o Default login shell for unused accounts o Network daemon configuration o Verification of system programs o System configuration files o Searching for hidden intruder files o Staying current with software releases o Standard accounting files o NFS configuration System administration - offensive strategies o COPS o /bin/passwd replacement programs o TCP/IP packet filtering o TCP/IP daemon wrapper programs o Security in programming Site-specific security policies o Maintaining good security at your site o Providing guidance to users o Handling incidents in an effective orderly fashion o Reviewing Site Security Policy Hand book (RFC 1244) Incident handling o What to do if your site is broken into? ************* TECHNICAL PROGRAM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remarks 8:45 - 10.15 Keynote Address: The Justice Department's Computer Crime Initiative 10:35 - 12:05 WAR STORIES There Be Dragons Steve Bellovin, AT&T Bell Laboratories The Greatest Cracker-Case in Denmark: The Detecting, Tracing, and Arresting of Two International Crackers Joergen Bo Madsen, The Danish Computing Center for Research and Education Experiences of Internet Security in Italy Alessandro Berni, Paolo Franchi, Joy Marino, University of Genova 1:30 - 3:00 TCP/IP NETWORK SECURITY An Internet Gatekeeper Herve Schauer, Christophe Wolfhugel, Herve Schauer Consultants Network (In)Security Through IP Packet Filtering D. Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associates SOCKS David Koblas, Independent Consultant Michelle R. Koblas, Computer Sciences Corporation 3:20 - 5:20 TOOLS 1 TCP WRAPPER, a Tool for Network Monitoring, Access Control and for Setting up Booby Traps Wietse Venema, Eindhoven University of Technology Restricting Network Access to System Daemons Under SunOS William LeFebvre, Northwestern University Centralized System Monitoring with Swatch Stephen E. Hansen, E. Todd Atkins, Stanford University Security Aspects of a UNIX PEM Implementation James M. Galvin, David M. Balenson, Trusted Information Systems, Inc. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 9:00 - 10:30 TOOLS 2 Introduction to the Shadow Password Suite John F. Haugh, II, Locus Computing Corporation Giving Customers the Tools to Protect Themselves Shabbir J. Safdar, Purdue University ESSENSE: A Knowledge Based Security Monitor Linda Baillie, Gary W. Hoglund, Lisa Jansen, Eduardo M. Valcarce, Digital Equipment Corporation 10:50 - 12:20 TOOLS 2 (Continued) Anatomy of a Proactive Password Changer Matt Bishop, Dartmouth College Audit: A Policy Driven Security Checker for a Heterogeneous Environment Bjorn Satdeva, /sys/admin, inc. Secure Superuser Access Via the Internet Darrell Suggs, Clemson University 1:45 - 3:15 TRACK 1 - APPLIED RESEARCH Specifying and Checking UNIX Security Constraints Allan Heydon, DEC Systems Research Center; J.D. Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University A Secure Public Network Access Mechanism J. David Thompson, Science Applications International Corp. Kate Arndt, The MITRE Corp. Network Security Via Private-Key Certificates Don Davis, Geer/Zolot Associates, Ralph Swick, Digital Equipment Corp. 1:45 - 3:15 TRACK 2 - MLS POSIX 1003.6 Mike Ressler, Bellcore Is There a C2 UNIX System in the House? Jeremy Epstein, TRW Systems Division Software Security for a Network Storage Service Rena A. Haynes, Suzanne M. Kelly, Sandia National Laboratories 3:35 - 5:35 TRACK 1 - APPLIED RESEARCH (Continued) SunOS, C2 and Kerberos - A Comparative Review John N. Stewart, Syracuse University Heterogeneous Intra-Domain Authentication Bart De Decker, Els Van Herreweghen, Frank Piessens, K.U.Leuven Observations on Reusable Password Choices Eugene Spafford, Purdue University POSIX Report Mike Ressler, Bellcore 3:35 - 5:35 TRACK 2 - MLS (Continued) Reconciling a Formal Model and a Prototype Implementation: Lessons Learned in Implementing the ORGCON Policy Marshall Abrams, Leonard LaPadula, Manette Lazear, Ingrid Olson, The MITRE Corporation UNIX Operating Services on a Multilevel Secure Machine Bruno d'Ausbourg, CERT/ONERA France Distributed Trusted UNIX Systems Charisse Castagnoli, Charles Watt, SecureWare, Inc. Standards Update ********** Program Committee Ed DeHart, Program Chair CERT Matt Bishiop Dartmouth College Bill Cheswick AT&T Bell Laboratories Ana Maria De Alvare Silicon Graphics, Inc. Jim Ellis CERT Barbara Fraser CERT Ken van Wyk CERT ********** USENIX, the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems professional and technical organization, is a not-for-profit association dedicated to * fostering innovation and communicating research and technological developments, * sharing ideas and experience, relevant to UNIX, UNIX-related and advanced computing systems * providing a forum for the exercise of critical thought and airing of technical issues. Founded in 1975, the Association sponsors two annual technical conferences and frequent symposia and workshops addressing special interest topics, such as C++, Mach, systems administration, and security. USENIX publishes proceedings of its meetings, a bi-monthly newsletter ;login:, a refereed technical quarterly, Computing Systems, and is expanding its publishing role with a book series on advanced computing systems. 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USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert St., Suite 613 El Toro, CA 92630 Telephone (714) 588-8649 FAX Number (714) 588-9706 Electronic Mail Address: conference@usenix.org .nf .ce 14 *********************************************************************** UNIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION FORM *********************************************************************** REGISTRATION VIA EMAIL IS NOT ACCEPTED. .sp This form is provided for your convenience only and MUST be faxed or mailed to the Conference Office. .sp PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN this form along with full payment to: USENIX CONFERENCE 22672 Lambert St., Suite 613 El Toro, CA 92630 Telephone: (714) 588-8649 FAX: (714) 588-9706 Office hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm Pacific Time ************************************************************************ .sp * Please type or print clearly. * Please duplicate this form as needed. * If you don't want the address you are providing to be used for all future USENIX mailings, check here ____. * If you do NOT want to appear in the attendee list check here ____. * Is this your first USENIX Conference? ____yes ____no * What is your affiliation: ____Academic ____Commercial ____Government .sp NAME: (first) _____________________ (last) ___________________________ FIRST NAME for BADGE: _______________________________________________ COMPANY OR INSTITUTION: ______________________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS: ______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ CITY: __________________________ STATE: ________ COUNTRY: __________ ZIP:________ PHONE: ____________ NETWORK ADDRESS: ____________________ .ce 1 .sp ************************************************************************ TUTORIAL REGISTRATION FEE September 14 One full-day tutorial - Only one tutorial can be selected. $245 $___ SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION FEES - September 15 -16, 1992 *Current Member Fee $225 $____ Non-member Fee $290 $____ Full-time Student Fee $ 75 $____ (must provide copy of student ID) On-site registration fee applies if postmarked after September 8. 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