From: howell@cs.unc.edu (William Howell)
Newsgroups: triangle.talks
Subject: SANS-II Conference Announcement
Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:36:21 -0500
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                         CALL FOR PAPERS
               AND EARLY REGISTRATION ANNOUNCEMENT

                             SANS-II
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      The 1993 World Conference On Tools and Techniques for
         System Administration, Networking, and Security
                        April 19-23, 1993
                 Washington, DC (Arlington, VA)
                          301-229-1062
                        SANS@FEDUNIX.ORG


     FedUNIX                              The USENIX Association
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                            and
             SAGE (The System Administrators Guild)
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                     are pleased to announce

the second international conference combining system
administration, network management, and security (SANS-II) to be
held at the Stouffers Concourse Hotel in Arlington, Virginia from
April 19 through 23, 1993.  SANS-II offers authoritative courses
and a forum in which systems administrators, network managers,
and security experts can exchange practical information, share
new ideas, and evaluate new tools.  SANS-II expands on the
highly-acclaimed 1992 World Conference on System Administration
and Security Conference by including network management issues. 
SANS-II continues the tradition of focusing exclusively on
practical solutions to today's problems.  It also provides a
unique opportunity to review the newest support tools and focuses
on how those tools will interact to lower the costs of managing
distributed computing.





************  Pre-Announcement Information **********


Registration Dates:
==================
Alumni Registration Deadline: January 30, 1993.  (For those who
attended the 1992 System Administration and Security Conference
or the 1992 LISA Conference.)

Early Bird Registration Deadline: March 10, 1993.


Abstract and Paper Submission Dates:
===================================
Final Due Date for Abstracts: January 22
Decisions Announced: Rolling from Jan. 15 - Feb. 10, 1993
Camera-Ready Papers Due: March 12, 1993


Conference Dates: 
=================
Courses: April 19-20, 1993
Technical Conference: April 21-23, 1993


Theme: 
=====
Practical solutions for cost-effective system administration,
network management, and security in networks of UNIX computers.


Who Should Attend: 
=================
System administrators, security administrators, network
administrators, network managers, technology managers, computer
installation managers, and their staff. In addition, a limited
number of places are available for staff members from
organizations that offer off-the-shelf software and hardware
products that support system administration, network management,
and security in UNIX computing environments.



Location: 
========
Stouffer Concourse Hotel, 2399 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, Virginia (at National Airport) 
Telephone: 703-418-6800


Why You Should Participate:
==========================
Three forces are making the jobs of system, network, and security
administrators more and more difficult:
1. growing, heterogeneous networks adding complexity to every
system administration task and increasing the risks of security
breaches.
2. growth of the number and size of files making systems
management far more difficult and time consuming.
3. pressure to do more with fewer people increasing the stress.

These challenges are particularly apparent and frustrating in the
government agencies (both in the US and abroad), universities,
and companies which have been in the vanguard of the move to open
systems and networks of UNIX computers. 

An extra reason to attends SANS over any other system
administration conference is the recent emergence of commercial
automated management tools that can reduce the burden.  This
conference will give you a chance to understand what these tools
are and where they can help.


SANS-II is designed to identify the current state of the art for
cost- effective systems and network administration and security
so that the techniques and tools used by the most effective 
managers can be adopted by those still looking for solutions.








Papers, Courses, and Other Conference Sessions:
==============================================
Peer-reviewed papers will be complemented with invited papers. 
In addition, a special "Tools Track" will provide a chance for
the delegates to learn how each of the most important commercial
systems management and network management tools actually work,
through technical briefings.  This track will be especially
important to the organizations (especially  government and large
commercial users) that are attempting to move toward commercial
off-the-shelf (COTS) software for systems management.  There is
no requirement to attend this track as there will be technical
paper sessions running simultaneously.

In addition to peer-reviewed and invited papers, the conference
will provide more than a dozen full-day courses taught by several
of America's top-rated instructors. Tutorial topics include
System Administration, Advanced Topics In System Administration,
UNIX Network Administration, UNIX Internals, UNIX Security,
Advanced UNIX Security, Security Policy and Procedures, and
others. 

Additional sessions brought back by popular demand:

   "Ask the Experts" sessions where you'll find practical answers
to your questions.  

  "Best Of The Net" session where you'll learn which free
programs available from the net are most useful. 

   "Tips and Techniques" sessions in which conference attendees
can share, in 5-minute presentations, their favorite techniques
for solving recurring problems.  These sessions are run as
moderated BOFs with all conference attendees being asked, in
advance, to contribute if they choose. 

   "Ask OSF" session where you can learn from the people who
brought you DCE and are bringing you DME.

   Informal Birds Of A Feather sessions in the evening to expand
the sharing time.  Please send your suggestions for topics with
your registration. 


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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

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Papers are being sought for the technical conference from
sysadmins, system managers, security managers, network
administrators, consultants, academics, and hardware and software
developers.  

You don't have to have made a major breakthrough to have your
paper accepted. The delegates will be looking for good problem
definitions and practical solutions. And your presentation does
not have to be long. You may choose a 15, 30, or 45 minute time
slot.

  
Formal Review Program
=====================
Papers that have been formally reviewed and accepted will be
presented during the conference and will be published in the
conference proceedings.  The review committee is composed of
experts on system administration, network management, and
security along with managers of large installations and
architects from the vendor community. Its members include:

Matt Bishop (Dartmouth), Tom Christiansen (Convex), Dave
Brillhart (Harris Semiconductor), Elizabeth Zwicky and Brian
McDonald (both of SRI), Norman Kincl (Hewlett Packard), Paul
Moriarty (CISCO), Michele Crabb (NASA Ames), Bruce Hunter (Intel),
Dale Pfaff (US Naval Research Laboratory), William Howell
(University of North Carolina), Marcus Ranum (Digital Equipment
Corp.) and Rob Kolstad (Berkeley Software Design)

The committee will decide whether your abstract addresses
important challenges (large or small), whether your approach
seems promising, or whether your abstract should be accepted for
any other reason. 







Topics:
=======

Please feel free to submit abstract on any topics. The list
provided below may help prompt some ideas:  

System Administration and Security
1. Making Backup Less Painful 
2. Mail Handling 
3. Managing Heterogeneous Systems 
4. Automating Console Operations 
5. System Scheduling and Monitoring
6. Better Storage Solutions 
7. Accounting and Chargeback 
8. Off-The-Shelf Tools 
9. Tools You Don't Like and Why
10. Security and Audit Management
11. Security Policies 
12. Policies and Procedures On the Network 
13. OSF's DCE and DME 
14. Training and Education 
15. Techniques For Dealing With Users  

Network Management and Security
1.  Managing heterogeneous networks  
2.  Policies and procedures on the network  
3.  Security policies  
4.  Network security monitoring  
5.  Network monitoring and performance testing  
6.  Training and education  
7.  Techniques for dealing with users  
8.  Networked backup schemes  
9.  Distributed mail systems  
10. Domain Name Service configuration  
11. Distributed console access  
12. OSF's DCE and DME
13. Off-the-shelf tools  
14. Tools you don't like and why  


  
Abstracts: 
=========
A good abstract will be 500 to 1,500 words in length and include
the following:  
  
1. A description of the problem(s) and its importance.  
2. Your solution including details of how it worked. If this is
work on emerging technology, try to show what the expected impact
will be.  If your solution is based on commercial hardware or
software tools, name them.  (Abstracts from software vendors are
welcome, and will be considered as part of the tools track or the
regular paper sessions depending on their focus.)
3. Data on how well it works: before/after comparisons, direct
savings, trade-offs, etc.  
4. Lessons learned and what you might have done differently.  
  
Please also provide the following information about the
author(s):  
name, title, organization, daytime telephone, surface mail
address, email address (please), FAX if possible.  
  
Finally, tell whether you want a 15, 30 or 45 minute time slot
for your presentation.  

Where to send your abstracts: 
============================
Papers Chairman
Alan Paller
FedUNIX
4610 Tournay Road
Bethesda, MD 20816
Questions or ASCII format abstracts may be submitted via email to
paller@fedunix.org

Conference Office Telephone 301-229-1062 

If you don't want to submit an abstract, but do want to receive
published registration materials, please send an email to
SANS@FEDUNIX.org or a letter to the FedUNIX address above.




Registration fees:
=================
Alumni: Conference $325, Conference and one course $595,
     Conference and two courses $775 (These discounted prices are
     valid only until the February 15 deadline.)
All Others (and Alumni After February 15): Conference $395,
     Conference and one course $670, Conference and two courses
     $895.
Late registration fee of $50 after March 24, 1992.

SANS-II: Early Registration Form

Name: ___________________________________________________________
Title: __________________________________________________________
Organization: ___________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Telephone: ______________________________________________________
Email: __________________________________________________________

Please check the appropriate line:

__ Register me for the conference only
__ Register me for the conference and one course
__ Register me for the conference and two courses
     (If we have to schedule the two courses you want on the same
     day and you don't want to attend any other, we'll refund the
     difference.)

Total fee:  (from the previous page)            ____________

___ Check Enclosed
___ Federal Purchase Order Enclosed
___ Charge my credit card:    ___ AMEX   ___ Mastercard  ___ VISA
     Number:   ________________________________________
     Expires (date): __________________________________

     Your signature ______________________________________________

Please check your first and second choices for courses so we can
try to arrange the courses on days that maximize your chance to
attend your top two choices::
___ UNIX  System Internals
___ UNIX Fundamentals
___ OSF DCE (Two Days)
___ OSF DME
___ Basic UNIX Security
___ Advanced UNIX Security
___ Practical PERL Programming
___ Introduction To TCP/IP
___ UNIX Network Programming
___ UNIX System Administration
___ UNIX Network Administration
___ Advanced Topics In System Administration Part I
___ Advanced Topics In System Administration: Part II

Return this form, with your check to SANS-II, 4610 Tournay Road,
Bethesda, MD 20816 or FAX it to 301-229-1063 if you are using a
credit card.

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