are you going to SANS?

[iwi.com">tmd]

Greetings SAGE members!

We'd like to provide some summaries of sessions at the upcoming 
SANS conference in ;login:.  If you are planning on attending any
of the sessions below and would be willing to jot down some notes
and send them to me, it would be greatly appreciated.  

Let me know if you think you can do this, and for what session.
Thanks!

	Tina


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SANS TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
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CHAIR: ROB KOLSTAD, BSDI

Keynote:  Wednesday, April 26th, 4:15 pm

Internet Revealed
Carl Malamud 
Presented by the man who many claim is doing more to mainstream the 
Internet than all the world's governments and professional societies, 
together.

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SANS'95 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION TRACK
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Thursday, April 27, 1995 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Friday, April 28, 1995 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Goals of System Administration
Elizabeth Zwicky, Silicon Graphics

How To Hire Good System Administrators
Michele Crabb, Sterling Software-NASA Ames

System Administration Ethics
Rob Kolstad, BSDI

The 1994 SANS Salary Survey
Alan Paller, Computer Associates

Advanced Topics In perl (Four separate parts)
Tom Christiansen

>From the other side of the desk:  Observations of consumers from 
executives in the software and service industries
Scott Menter and Rob Kolstad

"Best of Sys Admin Magazine"
Joint project with Sys Admin Magazine to bring the author of 1994's 
year's best article to SANS.

People Skills for the System Administrator
P. David Parks, IEEE

Managing People's Data
Diana Le, NAS Systems Division, NASA Ames Research Center

Client-Server Disaster Recovery:  Process Organization
James C. Murphy, Glaxo Inc.

Maintaining Large Software Repositories with SLINK R4
Alva L. Couch, Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science, Tufts University
and Greg Owen, Xerox Information Systems

Experiences With Legato NetWorker: Backing-up Heterogeneity 
Phillip Scarr, Neuroclinical Trials Center, The Virginia Neurological 
Institute

Some Observations and Experiences Regarding Remote Sites and 
Corporate Mergers in a Large, Heterogeneous Network
Jody Fraser, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation

Using Surveys To Manage Clients' Perception of Help Desk Service 
Delivery
Tom Jordan, Vice President, Deutsche Bank

A Mail Proxy Approach to Managing Shared Facilities
Peter Koski, Goldman, Sachs & Co.


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SANS'95 SECURITY TRACK
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CHAIRS: Michele Crabb, Sterling and NASA, and Matt Bishop, U. Cal. 
Davis

Thursday, April 27, 1995 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Friday, April 28, 1995 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Plenary Panel: Computer Security and the Law - Who Do You Call When 
Something Happens?
Scott Charney, Dept. of Justice, and friends

A Network Security FAQ: (Frequently Agonizing Quandaries)
Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems

The Basics of UNIX Vulnerabilities:
Case Studies and Analysis
Matt Bishop, Univ. Cal. at Davis

The Pros and Cos of Vulnerability Information Disclosure
Gene Spafford, Purdue University

Building A Security Infrastructure: What You Want vs. What You Need 
vs. What You Can Afford
Michele Crabb, Sterling Software, NASA Ames

Security Technology: Enabler or Disabler
Dan Geer, OpenVision

Panel: Experience With The Internet Sniffer Attacks
Arranged by Michele Crabb

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SANS NETWORKING AND INTERNET TRACK
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CHAIR: Amy Kreiling, UNC

Friday, April 28, 1995 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

History of UNIX and the Internet
Peter Salus

A Primer on Connecting to the Internet Safely and Reliably
Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems

PONG: A Flexible Network Services Monitoring System
Helen Harrison, SAS Institute, Inc.
with Mike C. Mitchell and Mike E. Shaddock

Internet: Hot Topics
Amy Kreiling, University of North Carolina

The Future Of The Internet: What's Really Happening With 
Communications?
To Be Named

Nuts and Bolts of ISDN: A Practical Guide
Jack Stewart, Center for Advanced Computational Research, California 
Institute of Technology

Performance Monitoring for Network Preemptive Maintenance
F. B. Motahdi and David C. C. Wang, GTE Telephone Operations

The NetScanner Network Monitoring Tool: A Quick, Simple And 
Extensible  Network Watcher
Jack Stewart, Center for Advanced Computational Research, California 
Institute of Technology

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SANS COMMERCIAL TOOLS TRACK
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Thursday, April 27, 1995 9:00 am to 5:30 pm

Briefings by technical managers from twelve leading firms offering 
important commercial software and hardware products of immediate 
value to system administrators and security managers.


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