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W1 Blueprints for High Availability: Designing Resilient Distributed Systems Evan Marcus, VERITAS Software Corporation Who should attend: Beginning and intermediate UNIX system and network administrators, and UNIX developers concerned with building applications that can be deployed and managed in a highly resilient manner. A basic understanding of UNIX system programming, UNIX shell programming, and network environments is required. This tutorial will explore procedures and techniques for designing, building, and managing predictable, resilient UNIX-based systems in a distributed environment. We will discuss the trade-offs among cost, reliability, and complexity. Topics include:
Evan Marcus (W1), who has 14 years Who should attend: Users, administrators, managers, and others interested in learning about some of the fundamental security and usage issues around wireless IP services. This tutorial assumes some knowledge of TCP/IP networking and client/server computing, the ability or willingness to use administrative GUIs to set up a device, and a general knowledge of common laptop environments. Whether you like it or not, wireless services are popping up everywhere. And you and your organization will be responsible for understanding and managing the devices you possess. Since the purpose of wireless is to share data when you aren't directly attached to a wired resource, you need to understand the fundamental security and usage options. In this tutorial we will cover a number of topics that affect you in managing and using wireless services. Some of the topics will be demonstrated live using popular wireless devices. Topics include:
 with SystemExperts
Corporation. Phil frequently writes and lectures on issues of UNIX and Windows NT integration and on information security. He is the lead author of Windows 2000 Security Handbook, 2nd Edition (Osborne McGraw-Hill), a contributing author of Windows NT/2000 Network Security (Macmillan Technical Publishing), and a featured columnist in ;login: The Magazine of USENIX & SAGE. He has served on numerous USENIX program committees. Phil holds a B.S. in computer science from the College of Charleston, South Carolina.Brad C. Johnson (W2) is vice  president of
SystemExperts Corporation. He has participated in the Open Software Foundation, X/Open, and the IETF, and has often published about open systems. Brad has served as a security advisor to organizations such as Dateline NBC and CNN. He is a frequent tutorial instructor and conference speaker on network security, penetration analysis, middleware, and distributed systems. He holds a B.A. in computer science from Rutgers University and an M.S. in applied management from Lesley University.
W3 Building Honey Pots for Intrusion Detection NEW Marcus Ranum, NFR Security, Inc. Who should attend: System and network managers with administrative skills and a security background. The tutorial examples will be based on UNIX/Linux. While the materials may be of interest to a Windows/NT administrator, attendees will benefit most if they have at least basic UNIX system administration skills. This class provides a technical introduction to the art of building honey pot systems for intrusion detection and burglar-alarming networks. Students completing this class will come away armed with the knowledge that will enable them to easily assemble their own honey pot, install it, maintain it, keep it secure, and analyze the data from it. Topics include:
Marcus Ranum (T8, W3) is founder Who should attend: System and network administrators who are interested in picking up several new technologies in an accelerated manner. The format consists of six topics. Topics include:
Evi Nemeth (T4, W4), a faculty Who should attend: Administrators and programmers interested in the potential of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and in exploring issues related to deploying an LDAP infrastructure. This tutorial is not a how-to for a specific LDAP server, nor is it an LDAP developers' course. Rather, it is an evaluation of the potential of LDAP to allow the consolidation of existing deployed directories. No familiarity with LDAP or other Directory Access Protocols will be assumed. System administrators today run many directory services, though they may be called by such names as DNS and NIS. LDAP, the up-and-coming successor to the X500 directory, promises to allow administrators to consolidate multiple existing directories into one. Vendors across operating-system platforms are lending support. Topics include:
 of the Samba Team since
1998, is employed by Hewlett Packard as a Software Engineer, working on Samba-based print appliances. He is writing a guide to LDAP for system administrators to be published by O'Reilly. Jerry holds an M.S. in computer science from Auburn University, where he also served as a network and systems administrator. Gerald has published articles with Web-based magazines such as Linuxworld and has authored courses for companies such as Linuxcare. He recently completed the second edition of Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing).
W6 System and Network Performance Tuning Marc Staveley, Soma Networks Who should attend: Novice and advanced UNIX system and network administrators, and UNIX developers concerned about network performance impacts. A basic understanding of UNIX system facilities and network environments is assumed. We will explore techniques for tuning systems, networks, and application code. Starting from a single-system view, we'll examine how the virtual memory system, the I/O system, and the file system can be measured and optimized. We'll move on to Network File System tuning and performance strategies. Detailed treatment of network performance problems, including network design and media choices, will lead to examples of network capacity planning. Application issues, such as system call optimization, memory usage and monitoring, code profiling, real-time programming, and controlling response time will be covered. Many examples will be given, along with guidelines for capacity planning and customized monitoring based on your workloads and traffic patterns. Analysis periods for particular situations will be provided. Topics include:
 a position with Soma
Networks, where he is applying his 18 years of experience with UNIX development and administration in leading their IT group. Previously Marc has been an independent consultant and has held positions at Sun Microsystems, NCR, Princeton University, and the University of Waterloo. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of standards-based development, multi-threaded programming, system administration, and performance tuning.
W7 Cisco's Security Features: What They Are, Where to Use Them, How to Configure Them NEW John Stewart, Digital Island, Inc. Who should attend: Network and system administrators running Cisco networks, and security professionals. It's common knowledge that over 85% of all Internet traffic crosses a Cisco product at one time or another. Given this fact, it is obvious that improving security on Cisco products can improve the overall security of your site as well as the overall security of the Internet. However, the security features available in Cisco products can be a discipline in themselves. This class takes a nuts-and-bolts approach to deciding which Cisco security features to use, and when and where to use them. A sample network is used as the basis for the class. For each area, sample uses and actual configuration techniques are discussed. Topics include:
 and wireless company. Prior to his work at Digital Island, he helped architect Cisco's Web site and worked on the security teams at Cisco and at NASA Ames Research Center. John, who is the co-author of the W3C's "WWW Security FAQ," has been teaching at the SANS and Network Security conferences since 1996 and serves on a number of technical advisory boards. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University.
W8 PHP: Scripting the Web NEW Rasmus Lerdorf, Consultant Who should attend: Web site designers or programmers working on Web-related projects. No programming background is required, but a basic understanding of HTML and HTTP is assumed. PHP is a popular scripting language used for creating dynamic Web sites. This tutorial, taught by the original developer of the language, will cover all the main features of the language. Topics include:
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of experience in
UNIX systems administration, is now a Senior Systems Engineer and High Availability Specialist with VERITAS Software Corporation. At Fusion Systems and OpenVision Software, Evan worked to bring the first high-availability software application for SunOS and Solaris to market. He is the author of several articles and talks on the design of high availability systems and is the co-author, with Hal Stern, of Blueprints for High Availability: Designing Resilient Distributed Systems (John Wiley & Sons, 2000).
and CTO of NFR
Security, Inc. He has been working in the computer/network security field for over 14 years and is credited with designing and implementing the first commercial Internet firewall product. Marcus also designed and implemented other significant security technologies, including the TIS firewall toolkit and the TIS Gauntlet firewall. As a researcher for ARPA, Marcus set up and managed the Whitehouse.gov email server. Widely known as a teacher and industry visionary, he has been the recipient of both the TISC Clue award and the ISSA lifetime achievement award. Marcus lives in Woodbine, Maryland, with his wife, Katrina, and a small herd of cats.
member in computer sci
ence at the University of Colorado, has managed UNIX systems for the past 25 years, both from the front lines and from the ivory tower. She is co-author of the UNIX System Administration Handbook. Evi is about to get out of the UNIX and networking worlds and explore the real world on a sailboat.
been designing large-scale
UNIX-based solutions since 1989. In the Open Source community, he is known mostly as the creator of the PHP scripting language. Rasmus has contributed to a number of Apache-related projects and is a member of the Apache core team. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Christine. He can be reached at rasmus@php.net.
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