Security Symposium, Aug 4-8, Washington DC

12th Annual Usenix Security Symposium, August 4-8, 2003, Washington DC

Register now for the 12th Usenix Security Symposium.  As with previous
security symposiums, the breadth and quality of this year’s tutorials,
refereed papers, invited talks, and participants is excellent.

WHAT:     Usenix’s 12th Annual Security Symposium
WHEN:     August 4-8, 2003
WHERE:  Washington, D.C., Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
WHO:        Researchers, System Administrators, Policy Wonks, etc.
WHY:        To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer security
HOW:        http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03

TUTORIALS: experts such as Marcus Ranum, Radia Perlman, and David Rhoades
will give you the information, techniques, tools, and strategies you need
to practice effective security today and tomorrow.

PAPERS and INVITED TALKS: luminaries such as Steve Bellovin, Bill Cheswick,
Niels Provos, Kevin Fu, Peter Gutmann, Dan Boneh, David Farber and Mark
Seiden will present cutting-edge issues in topics such as:

o electronic voting
o physical security realities
o defending Akamai's 13,000 servers
o the Internet as the ultimate surveillance network
o system hardening
o QA in security products
o sandboxing malicious applications
o emerging security issues with 802.11 and SSL
o new directions in Trusted Computing
o the realities of site responsiveness to new security

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and Work-in-Progress reports give you a preview
of next year's news, or present fledgling work of your own and get feedback
from the audience.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: "Black Unicorn" will talk about the central role played in
security by notions of identity, reputation, and trust,  drawing on his
cypherpunk background and studies of the dynamics of money-laundering,
black markets, and narcotics smuggling.

For more information and to register for the 12th Usenix Security Symposium
visit:

http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03