2005 System Administration Symposium
AUUG is pleased to present the 2005 Systems Administration Symposium, a chance to expand your knowledge, meet with domain experts and peers, and discuss the administration of Unix, Linux, MAC OS X and heterogeneous systems that include Windows.
The symposium will be held in Sydney at the Australian Institute of Management, 215 Pacific Highway, North Sydney NSW 2060 on Wednesday 6 July 2005.
In association with the symposium AUUG is pleased to present Abe Singer of the Security Technologies Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center who will give a tutorial on Logging Infrastructure and Log Analysis. This tutorial will be presented at AIM in Sydney on Tuesday 5 July 2005, and in Melbourne at the Australian Industry Group, Ground Floor, 20 Queens Road, Melbourne Vic 3004 on Tuesday 12 July 2005.
Programme
Wednesday, 6 July 2005
AIM, North Sydney
| 0830 - 0920 | Registration (tea and coffee served on arrival) | |
| 0920 - 0930 | Welcome | David Purdue, President, AUUG Inc. |
| 0930 - 1010 | Automated Monitoring Of PC Hardware | Frank Crawford, ac3 |
| 1010 - 1050 | Which Linux Filesytem? | Dr Peter Chubb, Gelato@UNSW |
| 1050 - 1110 | Morning Tea | |
| 1110 - 1150 | Solaris Network Performance Considerations | David Purdue, Sun Microsystems |
| 1150 - 1230 | Firewall Redundancy and Failover - The Thousand Dollar Challenge | Adrian Close, Hitwise |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1410 | Patch Management Through Automated Baseline Management Services | Rodney Lindner, Sun Microsystems |
| 1410 - 1450 | Minimising Threats By Keeping Red Hat And Related Systems Up To Date | Frank Crawford, ac3 |
| 1450 - 1510 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 1510 - 1550 | Security Without Firewalls | Abe Singer, San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| 1550 - 1650 | Panel Session: Fitness for purpose - selecting the right platform for the job | Dr Peter Chubb, Gelato@UNSW Frank Crawford, ac3 Alan Hargreaves, Sun Microsystems Abe Singer, San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| 1650 - 1700 | Wrap Up | David Purdue, President, AUUG Inc. |
Full programme details are available here.
Logging Infrastructure and Log Analysis Tutorial
Presented by Abe Singer
Sydney: Tue 5 July 2005
Melbourne: Tue 12 July 2005
This tutorial will describe how to build an infrastructure to collect, preserve, and extract useful information from computer operating system and application logs - ultimately to help the system administrator learn more about what is happening on their systems and network. The tutorial will be valuable to computer security and system administrators that deal with UNIX, Linux, MAC OS X and Windows, particularly those managing heterogeneous networks.
Abe Singer is a respected Open Systems security expert with the Security Technologies Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. In providing operational security for the Center, he participates in incident response and forensics, and is expanding the SDSC logging infrastructure. His research is in pattern analysis of syslog data for data mining. Abe is the author of "Building a Logging Infrastructure" (SAGE, 2004. http://www.sage.org), and is currently writing a book on Log Analysis, to be published by O'Reilly in early 2006.
Abe has served as an expert witness for the US Department of Justice in cases of illegal intrusion and has been named "Investigator of the Year" by the High Tech Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA).
As a bonus, Abe will also be presenting a paper at the Systems Administration symposium (Sydney only) entitled "Security Without Firewalls" that will challenge the industry wide preoccupation with firewalls and back this up with his real life experience in networks containing thousands of machines.
Click here (PDF) for an extended description of the tutorial.
On the day of the tutorial the registration desk will open at 8:30am, with tea and coffee available on arrival. The tutorial will start at 9:00am and run until 5:00pm.
Queries
Any other queries regarding the Symposium, including sponsorship opportunities, should be addressed to Liz Carroll, phone: +61 2 8824 9511, fax: +61 2 8824 9522, email: liz@auug.org.au.