UniForum To Sponsor Security Track at USENIX Event

UniForum will sponsor a Security Track for Managers as part of the Fifth USENIX UNIX Security Symposium in Salt Lake City, June 5-7.

UniForum's two-day track, "The Past, the Present, and the Future of Information Security," held June 5-6, will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of computer security related to open systems from a manager's perspective. The first day is designed for managers just getting into the business. It will provide background information about what security is, its components, and the risks to information in today's environment from hackers, viruses, networking, and the World-Wide Web. The second day will provide more in-depth information about the necessary components of computer security. Security experts will lead four intensive sessions addressing confidentiality, integrity, implementation issues, and disaster planning and practice.

The symposium is designed for UNIX site managers, director/managers of MIS, computer security managers, database managers, systems analysts/administrators and integrators, and anyone with an interest in addressing computer security within their business environment.

Program chair will be Jim Schindler, information security program manager with Hewlett-Packard Co. Instructor for day one will be Michael Weidner, founder and vice president of Arca Systems, Inc. Session chairs will be Gene Schultz, senior consultant in SRI's Information Technologies Practice; Katherine Fithen, technical coordinator in the CERT Coordination Center; Gene Spafford, an associate professor of computer science at Purdue University; and Stephen T. Walker, founder and president of Trusted Information Systems, Inc.

Other symposium sponsors will the USENIX Association, The Computer Emergency Response Team, and the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 11.14.

Further information is available by contacting UniForum, (800) 255-5620 or (408) 986-8840.