Students and Grants

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Discounted Rates

Full-time students may attend the 25th USENIX Security Symposium for only $495, as well as the co-located workshops for $590 per workshop or $295 per day. These special rates are not transferable. Your current student ID must be validated before registering. Please sign in or register for an account to upload your student ID for validation before registering.

Student Grants

Sponsored by Cisco, Google, IBM Research, Microsoft, Neustar, and the National Science Foundation

A limited number of student grants are available to help pay for travel, accommodations, and registration fees to enable full-time students to attend the conference. Please note USENIX relies on sponsorship to finance student grants, and funding is strictly limited. We do not guarantee assistance to speakers or participants, and student grants rarely cover complete travel needs. To apply for a grant, visit the USENIX Student Grant Program page.

Applications are due by Wednesday, June 29, 2016.

Grants for Women

Sponsored by Google and Microsoft

As part of its ongoing commitment to encouraging diversity in advanced computing, we are pleased to offer the USENIX Security '16 Grants for Women to support computer scientists interested in attending. All computer scientists from academia or industry who identify as female are encouraged to apply.

Successful applicants will receive $700 to apply toward travel/accommodation costs.

Eligibility:

  • Be a woman, or identify as female
  • Work in or study computer science or a related field
  • Attend at least two full days of the main conference technical sessions
  • Agree to being contacted by USENIX and sponsors about future events and opportunities

To apply, fill out the USENIX Security '16 Grants for Women application today.