by Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
The Third USENIX UNIX Security Symposium
Fall 1992
In cooperation with
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
The goal of this symposium is to bring together security
practitioners, system administrators and 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 tutorials, invited speakers, technical presentations,
and panel sessions.
This will be a three-day, single-track symposium. The first day
will be devoted to tutorial presentations. The following two
days will include technical presentations and panel sessions.
There will also be two evenings available for birds-of-a-feather
sessions and work-in-progress sessions. The dates and location
of this symposium have not yet been determined.
Papers are being solicited in areas including but not limited to:
o User/system authentication
o File system security
o Network security
o Security and system management
o Security-enhanced versions of the UNIX operating system
o Security tools
o Network intrusions (including case studies and intrusion
detection efforts)
Important Dates
Extended abstracts due May 15, 1992
Program Committee decisions made June 15, 1992
Camera-ready papers due July 31, 1992
Send seven copies of each submission to the program chair:
Edward DeHart
Computer Emergency Response Team
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
(412) 268-6179
Program Committee
Ed DeHart (Program Chair) Matt Bishop
Computer Emergency Response Team Dartmouth College
Bill Cheswick Ana Maria De Alvare'
Bell Laboratories Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Jim Ellis Barbara Fraser
Computer Emergency Response Team Computer Emergency Response Team
Ken van Wyk
Computer Emergency Response Team