17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '08)

Join us in San Jose, CA, July 28–August 1, 2008, for the 17th USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX Security '08 brings together top researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks.

The program begins with a 2-day training program offering in-depth tutorials by experts such as:

Bruce Potter on Botnets: Understanding and Defense
Simson L. Garfinkel on Computer Forensics
Radu Sion and Sean Smith on Understanding and Deploying Trusted Hardware (Hands-on)
And more

The technical program begins on Wednesday, July 30, and features:

Keynote Address by Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State
Invited talks on topics by industry leaders on highly relevant topics such as:
- "Hackernomics," by Hugh Thompson, People Security
- "Political DDoS: Estonia and Beyond," by Jose Nazario, Senior Security Engineer, Arbor Networks
- "The Ghost in the Browser and Other Frightening Stories about Web Malware," by Niels Provos, Google, Inc.
- And more
27 refereed papers presenting the best new research in a variety of subject areas, including voting and trusted systems, privacy, and botnet detection
Work-in-Progress reports and the poster session offering a preview of next year's news and the chance to present your own new work and get audience feedback
- To submit a WiP, please send a one- or two-paragraph abstract to sec08wips@usenix.org by 6:00 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, July 30, 2008.
- To submit a poster, please send a 1–5 page proposal, in PDF or PostScript, to sec08posters@usenix.org by Friday, June 13, 2008.

Also, Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions provide an additional opportunity to chat with colleagues with similar interests.

Finally, Check out the workshops that are co-located with USENIX Security '08.

Attending with colleagues? We offer discounts for organizations sending 5 or more employees to USENIX Security '08. Please contact the Conference Dept. for more details.

Don't miss out on the latest in security research. Register by July 14, 2008, and save up to $250.

See you in San Jose!

Multiple Employee Discount
We offer group discounts for organizations sending 5 or more employees to USENIX Security '08. Please see the registration page for more details.

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Co-located with:

2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '08), July 28–29

2nd USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies
(WOOT '08), July 28

Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test
(CSET '08), July 28

3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '08), July 29

Third Workshop on Security Metrics (MetriCon 3.0), July 29

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