5. Security

Cyber security is an integral part of the practice of system administration. Join other like-minded individuals for a discussion of the latest issues surrounding how systems management and security intersect in your organizations and exchange those ideas with your peers.

The workshop will focus on topics determined by the organizers and the participants. Potential topics include:

• BYOD: How are user-owned devices that are being used for business affecting your organization’s risk profile, security policies, support procedures, etc.?
• Cloud-based services: Has your organization started to utilize cloud-based services? How have these services been integrated into security and IT operations practices and procedures? Perhaps integrating IaaS seems fairly straightforward to you but what about PaaS and SaaS?
• Advanced Persistent Threat (APT): How do you detect and mitigate APT? Has your organization been compromised by an APT? How was the compromise handled? How confident are you that you would know if an APT entity has a persistent presence in your organization’s infrastructure?