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NETWORKING TUTORIAL PROGRAM
[Friday:  F1 - F2 - F3 - F4    Saturday: S1 - S2 - S3 - S4]
 

S2   Computer Attacks: Trends and Countermeasures
Tina Darmohray, SystemExperts, Corp.; Phil Cox, Networking Technology Solutions

Who should attend: System and network administrators who implement or maintain networks and site managers charged with selecting and setting site security requirements. Familiarity with TCP/IP networking is a plus.

Many classic security problems, such as perimeter and host security, have become well defined and are routinely addressed by a wide range of product offerings; however, computer and network attacks are still on the rise. Effectively combating these attacks is a network and security management discipline with emerging strategies and solutions. This tutorial will cover the latest trends in computer attacks and the security precautions you can take against them, including defensive penetration analysis, host auditing, network logging solutions, and intrusion detection.

After this tutorial, attendees will understand the important areas of security management. They will be able to defensively assess their system and network security. Additionally they will have an appreciation for auditing and monitoring hosts and networks for intrusions and storing critical information required for network forensics.

Topics include:
 
-   Trends in computer attacks
-   Defensive penetration analysis
-   Host and network auditing tools
-   Intrusion detection
-   Network forensics
-   Ethics, policies, and legal concerns of auditing computer communications
 


 Phil Cox is a consultant for Networking Technology Solutions, and is a member of a government incident response team. Phil frequently writes and lectures on issues bridging the gap between UNIX and Windows NT. He is a featured columnist in ;login: and is on this year's LISA Conference program committee.

 Tina Darmohray is a network and security consultant with over a decade of experience in administration and programming of UNIX/TCP-based computers. She specializes in firewalls, Internet connections, Sendmail/DNS configurations and defensive intrusion management. Previously she was the lead for the UNIX support team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Tina was a founding board member of the System Administrators Guild, SAGE. She is also the editor of the popular SAGE short topics booklet Job Descriptions for System Administrators, editor of "SAGE News and Features" for ;login:, and co-chair of the USENIX LISA IX Conference.

 


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