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S1 Real-World Intrusion Detection: Problems and Solutions Who should attend: System and network administrators who implement or maintain intrusion detection systems, managers charged with selecting and setting intrusion detection requirements, and anyone who wants to know the details of how to make intrusion detection work. Familiarity with TCP/IP networking is a plus. In today's increasingly networked world, intrusion detection is essential for protecting resources, data, and reputation. It's a rapidly evolving field with several models and deployment methods from which to choose. After taking this tutorial, attendees will understand the fundamental concepts of intrusion detection and will gain practical insights into designing, deploying, and managing intrusion detection systems in the real world. Topics include:
Phil Cox (S1, M6)
S2 Advanced Solaris System Administration Topics
Who should attend: UNIX administrators who need more knowledge of Solaris administration. We will discuss the major new features of recent Solaris releases, including which to use (and how) and which to avoid. This in-depth course will provide the information you need to run a Solaris installation effectively. Updated to include Solaris 8 and several other new topics. Topics include:
Upon completion of the course, attendees will know what the IETF has been up to lately, and what to expect in upcoming BIND releases. This tutorial will not be a rehash of prior material--new subjects will be covered.
Peter Baer Galvin (S2)
Who should attend: Anyone who is designing, implementing, or maintaining a UNIX environment with 2 to 20,000+ hosts. System administrators, architects, and managers who need to maintain multiple hosts with few admins. This tutorial won't propose one "perfect solution." Instead, it will try to raise all the questions you should ask in order to design the right solution for your needs. Topics include:
Lee Damon (S4)
Who should attend: System administrators who plan to implement a Linux solution in a production environment. Attendees should be familiar with the basics of system administration in a UNIX/Linux environment: user-level commands, administration commands, and TCP/IP networking. Both novice and intermediate administrators should leave the tutorial having learned something. From a single server to a network of workstations, the Linux environment can be a daunting task for administrators knowledgeable on other platforms. Starting with a single server and finishing with a multi-server, 1000+ user environment, case studies will provide practical information for using Linux in the real world. Topics include:
At the completion of the tutorial, attendees should feel confident in their ability to set up and maintain a secure and useful Linux network. The tutorial will be conducted in an open manner that allows for question-and-answer interruption.
Joshua Jensen
Who should attend: Network, system, and firewall administrators; security auditors and those who are audited; people involved with responding to intrusions or responsible for network-based applications or systems that might be targets for crackers (determined intruders). Participants should understand the basics of TCP/IP networking. Examples will use actual tools and will also include small amounts of HTML, JavaScript, and Tcl. Network-based host intrusions, whether they come from the Internet, an extranet, or an intranet, typically follow a common methodology: reconnaissance, vulnerability research, and exploitation. This tutorial will review the ways crackers perform these activities, what protocols and tools they use, and a number of current methods and exploits. You'll learn how to generate vulnerability profiles of your systems. Additionally, we'll review some important management policies and issues.
We'll focus primarily on tools that exploit many of the common TCP/IP- Topics include:
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Brad Johnson (S7, M6)
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 (S8)
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 spread throughout the day. Logical Volume Management for Linux: Logical volume support for Linux has brought storage flexibility and high availability to the masses. By abstracting physical storage devices, logical volumes let you grow and shrink partitions, efficiently back up databases, and much more. We'll talk about Linux LVM, what you need to get it up and running, and how to take advantage of its many features. Security Packet Filtering Primer: What does the word "firewall" really mean, and how do you set up a packet filter list to implement a basic one? We'll teach you the dos and don'ts of creating a tough packet filter, and talk specifically about capabilities of packages available for Linux. What's New in BIND9? BINDv9 includes a long laundry list of features needed for modern architectures, huge zones, machines serving a zillion zones, co-existence with PCs, security, and IPv6--specifically, dynamic update, incremental zone transfers, DNS security via DNSSEC and TSIG, A6, and DNAME records. We'll talk about the gory details of these new features. Policy and Politics: Many of the policies and procedures followed at a site are carefully filed in the sysadmin's head. With the worldwide Net invading your local site, these secrets need to be written down, run by lawyers, and followed by your sysadmin staff. We will discuss approaches to these tasks, both good and bad, and illustrate with war stories, sample policy agreements, and procedure checklists. Security Crisis Case Studies: Before your very eyes, we'll dissect a set of security incident case studies using many tools available on your system or from the Net. We'll specifically examine how to avoid common security-incident pitfalls. Network Server Performance Tuning: Instead of throwing expensive hardware at a performance problem, consider that kernel and application tuning can yield a performance improvement of several hundred percent. We'll focus on Linux kernel and system tuning, but most of what we cover applies to other UNIX platforms as well.
Evi Nemeth (S9), a faculty member in computer science
SSH, the Secure Shell program, has matured into a popular and powerful tool for secure system access and securely performing remote functions such as rdist. This tutorial will help you navigate the many SSH features and related software and will show how to use SSH in a large networked environment. Topics include:
Steve Acheson (S10) is currently a Computer Security
Who should attend: System administrators with at least advanced-beginner to intermediate experience with Perl who would like a clear understanding of how to use Perl to make their jobs easier. Perl was originally created to help with system administration, so it is a wonder that there's not more instructional material available. This tutorial aims to remedy this situation by presenting a solid three hours of instruction on using Perl for system administration. You are also likely to deepen your knowledge of Perl. Based on the instructor's just-published O'Reilly book, this tutorial will take a multi-platform approach to the subject. We'll be exploring cutting-edge and old standby system-administration topics as they manifest themselves on both UNIX and Windows NT/2000 platforms. Topics include:
David N. Blank-Edelman (S11, S15) is the Director of
Who should attend: People with system administration duties, advanced-beginner to intermediate Perl experience, and a desire to make their jobs easier and less stressful in times of sysadmin crisis. Perl is an excellent language for rapid development and prototyping. Thanks to the power of the core language and the large body of additional modules, it is often possible to write programs quickly to solve pressing problems. System administrators have no shortage of pressing problems, so knowing how to wield this "swiss-army chain saw" can be a lifesaver. This tutorial will be centered around a set of "battle stories" and the Perl source code used to deal with them. The code presented in this class will be mostly UNIX-based, though the approaches we'll talk about won't be operating-system-specific. Attendees will leave this class with new ideas for writing small Perl programs to get out of big sysadmin pinches.
David N. Blank-Edelman (S11, S15) is the Director of
Who should attend: Anyone with networked TCP/IP clients who wants to distribute network information to those clients automatically. Attendees should have a basic knowledge of TCP/IP and typical network setup. Attendees should also understand procedures for installing and working with their operating system. DHCP can be used to distribute IP address, router, DNS, WINS, and other information to network clients, without having to manually configure each machine. Topics include:
Greg Kulosa (S16) has been a Unix Systems Administra
M1 High Performance Computing with Linux Clustering NEW Who should attend: Programmers and managers involved in the design and implementation of high performance computing solutions for business and scientific applications. Participants should have some programming background (C, C++, FORTRAN) and some understanding of hardware and networking. Participants will come away from this tutorial knowing how to begin building a low-cost, high performance computing cluster and how to write programs to take advantage of the cluster. Topics include:
John R. Graham, (M1) is currently on the faculty at
M2 Exploring the Potential
of LDAP 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:
Gerald Carter (M2) has been a member of the Samba
Who should attend: System administrators who want to learn more about the sendmail program, particularly details of configuration and operational issues (this tutorial will not cover mail front ends). This intense, fast-paced tutorial is aimed at people who have already been exposed to sendmail. It describes the latest release of sendmail from Berkeley, version 8.12. Topics include:
Eric Allman (M4) is the original author of sendmail. He
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:
Phil Cox (S1, M6) is a consultant for SystemExperts
Who should attend: Anyone with a computer science degree or the equivalent experience who is not an expert in computer security. IT managers who need to understand how to evaluate risk, what the dangers are, and what countermeasures are available. We will emphasize issues of importance to system administrators. As more and more of our lives move online, we are exposing more of ourselves to often untraceable, malicious, and automated attack: credit card numbers, data, a group of machines that we manage, our time, our privacy. This tutorial seeks to sweep a broad brush across the field of computer security, addressing in particular the practical aspects of the field. Topics include:
Attendees should leave with a general understanding of the field and a direction for learning more about each topic covered.
Avi Rubin (M7) is Principal Researcher at AT&T Labs and
Who should attend: DNS administrators who wish to extend their understanding of how to configure and manage name servers running BIND9. Attendees should have some experience of running a name server and be familiar with DNS jargon for resource records, as well as the syntax of zone files and named.conf. This tutorial will answer the question, "I've set up master (primary) and slave (secondary) name servers. What else can I do with the name server?" Topics include:
Jim Reid (M8) started using a PDP11/45 running
Who should attend: System administrators and DBAs who are responsible for the backup and recovery of one or more Oracle databases. NT engineers and UNIX administrators will both benefit from the Oracle architecture and recovery sections of this tutorial. We'll briefly discuss oraback.sh, a Bourne shell backup script for Oracle. This tutorial will explain everything administrators need to know to begin backing up and recovering their Oracle 7 or 8 database. We'll cover the basics of Oracle architecture in sysadmin terms, including all of the backup and recovery options for Oracle. We'll look at live demonstrations of both backup and recovery, including the 30 possible steps of an Oracle recovery. If you'd like to perform the backup and recovery demonstrations along with the instructor, email curtis@backupcentral.com for instructions at least one week prior to the class. Topics include:
W. Curtis Preston (M9, T11, T15) has been specializing
Who should attend: System administrators and developers who want to learn more about Apache configuration and the changes in Apache 2, and people who want to write Apache modules. Participants should have prior knowledge of the Apache 1.3 server and module APIs. Apache server version 2 will further increase the portability of Apache server. You will leave this tutorial with all the information you need to configure and test the new Apache. Topics include:
Jan Säll (M10, M14) is a leading UNIX consultant
Who should attend: System or network administrators who have been exposed to the Domain Name System only as users. A basic understanding of the IP protocols, TCP and UDP, data encapsulation, and the seven-layer model will be beneficial. DNS, the primary method the Internet uses to name and number machines, is used to translate names like "www.usenix.org" into addresses like 131.106.3.253. Any site that is serious about joining the Internet community will need to understand how to configure and administer DNS. This tutorial will describe the basic operation of DNS and will provide instructions and guidelines for the configuration and operation of DNS on UNIX platforms using the BIND software distribution. This class is designed for the beginner and is intended to provide a foundation for the tutorial on "Intermediate Topics in Domain Name System Administration." Topics include:
William LeFebvre (M11, M15) has been using UNIX
Who should attend: UNIX administrators who are already familiar with configuring and administering sendmail and who want to learn how to convert to sendmail 8.11 or 8.12, or who want to understand sendmail security better, particularly on firewalls and other similar systems. Sendmail is a powerful Mail Transport Agent that can be configured for many different environments, from firewalls through workstation mail servers. These environments have different security requirements. Sendmail can also be used to secure the e-mail infrastructure at your site using SMTP authentication and TLS authentication and encryption. Topics include:
Gregory Neil Shapiro (M12) began his professional
Who should attend: Newly promoted technical managers and those who expect promotion in the near future. You've done well at your technical job and have been asked to take on some management responsibility. What do you need to succeed as a manager? This class and the accompanying "Management 102" will orient you, introduce you to the skills you will need to be most effective, and suggest ways you can guide your own growth as a manager. (N.B.: The tutorial "Communicating with Everyone" is highly recommended, but not essential.) Topics include:
Stephen Johnson (M13, M17) has been a
Who should attend: System administrators who wants to know more about how to configure different modules and increase the use, and speed of their Web servers. This tutorial will cover the Apache module APIs, focusing on how to configure them. We will give an overview of available modules and then examine a number of modules and their configurations in more detail. Attendees should leave this tutorial with good ideas for using Apache modules. Topics include:
Jan Säll (M10, M14) is a leading UNIX consultant
Who should attend: Network administrators with a basic understanding of DNS and its configuration who need to learn how to create and delegate subdomains, and administrators planning to install BIND8. Attendees are expected either to have prior experience with DNS, including an understanding of basic operation and zone transfers, or to have attended the "Introduction to Domain Name System Administration" tutorial. Attendees will move beyond the basics into a more thorough understanding of the overall design and implementation of DNS. Topics include:
William LeFebvre (M11, M15) has been using UNIX
M16 System and Network Monitoring NEW Who should attend: Network and system administrators interested in real-life, practical, network-based monitoring of their systems and networks. Participants should understand the fundamentals of networking and computing and network components and have some familiarity with UNIX and scripting languages. This tutorial provides an introduction to system and network monitoring and a review of effective tools and applications that can be used for monitoring. It will introduce the concepts and functions of monitoring systems, describe the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and SNMP-based tools, and provide introductions to and discussion of some of the most popular monitoring tools. The emphasis will be on the practical, and the tutorial will provide examples of easy-to-implement monitoring techniques. Topics include:
Participants should leave the tutorial able to start using a number of monitoring systems and techniques that will improve their ability to manage and maintain their systems and networks.
John Sellens (M16) has been involved in system and
Who should attend: New technical managers or those who expect to be managers soon. (This is a companion tutorial to "Management 101." The tutorial on "Communicating with Everybody" is also recommended, but not required.) Many managers report that although their job seemed very powerful before they stepped into it, it doesn't seem that way now. This tutorial offers practical techniques that allow people to empower themselves and others. True empowerment comes from within and can be developed even in a hostile environment. Empowering yourself also helps you empower your employees and your boss. Topics include:
Stephen Johnson (M13, M17) has been a
T1 Building and Using a Personal Beowulf NEW
Who should attend: The tutorial is designed for individuals or small groups on a limited budget who need a personal supercomputer. The tutorial differs from most tutorials on Beowulfs in that it is aimed at small installations rather than, for example, national labs. The goal is to provide attendees with practical advice on how to put together the hardware, install the software, and use the system successfully to speed up tasks.
Topics include:
Tutorial materials includes a CD-ROM for the Scyld Beowulf distribution.
Willem A. (Vlakkies) Schreuder (T1) holds a Ph.D. in
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:
Anybody involved with Web development will come out of this tutorial with some new approaches to common problems.
Rasmus Lerdorf (T4) has been designing large-scale
Who should attend: System administrators interested in learning about the cryptographic tools SASL and openssl, which are now bundled in Linux and available for all versions of UNIX. Sendmail administrators interested in learning about the AUTH and STARTTLS extensions to SMTP will also benefit. Attendees need basic system administration skills and knowledge of sendmail configuration to gain the most benefit from this course.
Soon all Linux and UNIX systems will ship with built-in cryptographic capabilities. System administrators need to understand what those tools can and cannot do for them and how to use the tools. This tutorial outlines the current state of cryptographic support in Linux and shows attendees how to make use of the openssl and SASL services. The network protocols that underlie these cryptographic services are described. Attendees will receive practical advice about using strong authentication and encrypted data streams with sendmail. Sendmail is also used as a model to show the strengths and weaknesses of cryptography for security. This tutorial describes in detail how to install, configure, and use openssl, SASL and sendmail to support the AUTH and STARTTLS mail protocol extensions.
Topics include:
Craig Hunt (T5) is the author of the bestsellers "TCP/IP
Who should attend: Anyone interested in threats to UNIX security and how to deal with them.
This tutorial uses case histories to show what vulnerabilities the attackers exploited, how the system administrators might have closed those loopholes, and how the intruders were discovered. Concepts and mechanisms, as well as publicly available tools, are discussed. This course focuses on non-network problems.
Topics include:
Matt Bishop (T6) began working on problems of com
Who should attend: Current Linux system administrators, and administrators from sites considering converting to or adding Linux systems. Attendees who are new to system administration will find the pace quite rapid.
We will focus on the administrative issues that arise when Linux systems are deployed to address a variety of real-world tasks and problems arising from both commercial and R&D contexts.
Topics include:
Aeleen Frisch (T7) has been a system administrator for
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 will lead to examples of network capacity planning. Application issues 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:
Marc Staveley (T8) recently left Sun Microsystems
Who should attend: Developers and system administrators familiar with at least one high-level language who want to add Python to their toolbox.
Python is interpreted, interactive, and inherently object-oriented, featuring an easy-to-learn syntax that is clear and concise. As a scripting language, Python is often used for many common network and system administration tasks. Python is available for many versions of UNIX (e.g. Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD), Windows 3.x/9x/NT/2000, and Macintosh, as well as less common platforms such as OS/2, PalmPilot, and DOS.
Python is also available in a Java-compiled interpreter called Jython, which will run anywhere a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is available. Python classes can interact with Java classes and vice versa, making Jython a powerful tool in Java development.
Topics include:
Wesley J. Chun (T10, T14) holds
Who should attend: System administrators and system engineers responsible for the design and implementation of storage systems. Attendees should be aware of storage systems concepts; a basic familiarity with SAN and NAS is helpful but not required.
This tutorial will explain the differences and similarities between Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS), including an explanation of why NAS is now competing with SAN in certain markets. It will also cover the myriad of backup and recovery options that each brings to the table, and the pros and cons of each of them. It will then offer guidelines on how to decide whether SAN or NAS is right for you.
Topics include:
W. Curtis Preston (M9, T11, T15) has been specializing
Who should attend: System administrators who need to produce documention for the systems they manage or who want to improve their documentation skills.
Attendees will learn basic techniques for writing effective documentation and improving their documentation practices.
Topics include:
Attendees should be able to make immediate, practical use of the techniques presented in this tutorial in their day-to-day tasks. Particular emphasis is placed on documentation as a time-saving tool rather than a workload imposition.
Mike Ciavarella (T13, T16) has been producing and editing technical documentation since he naively agreed to write application manuals for his first employer in the early 1980s. He has been a technical editor for MacMillan Press and has been teaching system administrators about documentation for the past four years. Mike has an Honours Degree in Science from the University of Melbourne in Australia, and is currently a Senior Partner with Cybersource Pty Ltd, where he heads Cybersource's Security Practice. In his spare time, Mike is a caffeine addict and photographer.
Who should attend: Developers familiar with Python who are interested in exploring client-server socket programming, Web client development, and CGI programming in Python.
This tutorial will introduce current Python programmers to three different areas of network programming. Attendees will leave this tutorial able to "start coding back in their hotel room." An introduction to each topic will be followed by a walk-through of sample code.
Topics include:
Wesley J. Chun (T10, T14) holds
Who should attend: System administrators involved in the design, implementation, and administration of Veritas NetBackup. Participants who are not yet using NetBackup should review NetBackup documentation before attending this session.
Anyone who has implemented a medium-to-large installation of any commercial backup software package understands the challenges that such a project will face. This tutorial focuses on the challenges unique to Veritas NetBackup, with heavy emphasis on configuring NetBackup in such a way that it will be easier to automate, easier to monitor and make reports from, takes full advantage of your storage resources, and, above all, ensures that your data is being protected properly. The tutorial will also answer the questions that all NetBackup administrators find themselves asking and will provide scripts to automate NetBackup.
Topics include (with an emphasis on decisions to be made):
After completing this tutorial, participants will be able to answer all of these questions and will have the tools necessary to better automate their NetBackup installation. They will also be aware of common pitfalls and how to avoid them.
W. Curtis Preston (M9, T11, T15) has been specializing
Who should attend:
Junior or intermediate system administrators or anyone with a basic knowledge of programming, preferably with some experience in Bourne/Korn shells (or their derivatives).
The humble shell script is still a mainstay of UNIX/Linux system administration, despite the wide availability of other scripting languages.
This tutorial details techniques that move beyond the quick-and-dirty shell script.
Topics include:
Mike Ciavarella (T13, T16) has been producing and editing technical documentation since he naively agreed to write application manuals for his first employer in the early 1980s. He has been a technical editor for MacMillan Press and has been teaching system administrators about documentation for the past four years. Mike has an Honours Degree in Science from the University of Melbourne in Australia, and is currently a Senior Partner with Cybersource Pty Ltd, where he heads Cybersource's Security Practice. In his spare time, Mike is a caffeine addict and photographer.
T17 Practical Project Management NEW
Who should attend:
Sysadmins who want to stay hands-on as team leads or system architects and need a new set of skills with which to tackle bigger, more complex challenges. No previous experience with project management is required. Participants will get a no-nonsense grounding in methods that work without adding significantly to one's workload. People who have been through traditional multi-day project management courses will be shocked, yet refreshed, by the practicality of our approach. To get the most out of this tutorial, participants should have some real-world project or complex task in mind for the lab sections.
This tutorial focuses on complementing your own organizational style (or lack thereof) with a toolbox of ways to organize and manage complex tasks without drowning in paperwork or clumsy, meeting-intensive methodologies. Also emphasized is how to bridge the gap between ad-hoc methods and the kinds of tracking and reporting that traditionally trained managers will understand.
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Strata Rose Chalup (T17) began as a fledgling sysad
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is a consultant for SystemExperts
Corporation, a consulting firm that specializes in system security and management. Phil frequently writes and lectures on issues bridging the gap between UNIX and Windows NT. He is a featured columnist in ;login;, the USENIX Association Magazine and has served on numerous USENIX program committees. Phil holds a B.S. in computer science from the College of Charleston, South Carolina.
Corporation based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past two years, Mark has distinguished himself by assisting several of the premier Internet companies in responding to major network attacks, and in designing and implementing robust infrastructure to limit future exposure. Mark has established a reputation over the past seventeen years of achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction in the areas of Unix, Windows & NT, Macintosh, DNS, Internet and intra-net connectivity, SMTP email, and WAN technologies. Mark attended the University of Washington, where he studied Physics.
is the chief technologist for
Corporate Technologies, Inc., and was the systems manager for Brown University's Computer Science Department. He has written articles for Byte and other magazines, is systems admnistration columnist for SunWorld, and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts and the Applied Operating Systems Concepts textbooks. As a consultant and trainer, Peter has taught tutorials on security and systems administration and has given talks at many conferences.
holds a B.S. in speech communication
from Oregon State University. He has been a UNIX system administrator since 1985 and has been active in SAGE since its inception. He has been a UNIX system administrator since 1985 and has been active in SAGE since its inception. He co-developed departmental and company-wide UNIX environments for IBM, GulfStream Aerospace and QUALCOMM. He is now working in the EE Department at the University of Washington, and is helping to develop the Nikola UNIX infrastructure there.
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and examiner, and has been with Red Hat for 3 years. In that time he has written and maintained large parts of the Red Hat curriculum: Networking Services and Security, System Administration, and the Red Hat Certified Engineer course and exam. Joshua has worked with Linux for six years, and has been teaching Cisco Internetworking and Linux courses since 1998.
is a vice president of SystemExperts Corporation, a consulting firm that specializes in system security and management. He is a well-known authority in the field of secure distributed systems and has recently served as a technical advisor to both Dateline NBC and CNN on network security matters. He has participated in seminal industry initiatives, including the Open Software Foundation, X/Open, and the IETF, and has often published about open systems.Brad was one of the original members of the OSF DCE Evaluation Team. He has a B.A. in computer science from Rutgers University and an M.S. from Lesley College.
is a senior systems engineer and
high availability specialist with VERITAS Software Corporation. Evan has more than 12 years of experience in UNIX systems administration. While employed at Fusion Systems and OpenVision Software, Evan worked to bring the first high availability software application for SunOS and Solaris to market. Evan is the author of several articles and talks on the design of high availability systems.
at the University of Colorado, has managed UNIX systems for the past 20 years, both from the front lines and from the ivory tower. She is co-author of the UNIX System Administration Handbook.
Engineering. He is currently helping with the 3rd edition of the UNIX System Administration Handbook (by Nemeth, Snyder, and Hein). He has a degree in computer science from Cornell University and has done research with both the CS and Engineering Physics departments at Cornell.
System Administration Handbook, and its Linux-focused counterpart, due in bookstores late this year. He has been teaching tutorials on system administration at USENIX conferences since 1989, and lately spends most of his time pondering security methodology for the corporate environment. Trent is Cisco CCIE-certified and is often known to obsess over system and network performance issues.
Analyst at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he is a senior member of the Computer Information Security Department, responsible for network and system security, including designing internal security architecture and external/firewall access. Prior to working for Cisco, Steve managed security for NASA's Numerical Aerospace Simulations facility at Ames Research Center. He has worked in the field as a System Administrator, Network Engineer and Security Analyst for over 10 years.
Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer Science and the author of the new O'Reilly book Perl for System Administration. He has spent the last 14 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He has served as Senior Technical Editor for the Perl Journal and has written many magazine articles on world music.
tor for 10+ years. He is currently a Senior consultant, solving a myriad of host and networking problems for a variety of clients. He has rolled out DHCP to networks from 2 to 1500 machines (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris 2.xclients).
Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. His dissertation "Real-time Scheduling in Distributed, Multi-Agent Systems" was an application of highly threaded and distributed applications used to solve complex science and business problems. He has worked professional for Sun Microsystems, NASA, Texas Instruments and Eastman Kodak and as a consultant to clients world-wide. At the Univesiry he teaches Systems programming, Opearting Systems Design and continues research in development of 
Team since 1998 and is employed by VA Linux Systems. He is currently working with O'Reilly Publishing on a guide to LDAP for system administrators. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Auburn University, where he was also previously employed as a network and systems administrator. Gerald has published articles with various Web-based magazines such as Linuxworld and has authored instructional course for companies such as Linuxcare. He acted as the lead author of Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing.)
is the author of syslog, tset, the -me troff macros, and trek. He was the chief programmer on the INGRES database management project, designed database user and application interfaces at Britton Lee,and contributed to the Ring Array Processor project at the International Computer Science Institute. He is a former member of the USENIX Board of Directors.
a member of theboard of directors of USENIX. He has been researching security issues in computer security since 1991. Rubin is the author of two books on computer security: White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001) and Web Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley &Sons, 1997). He is the author of dozens of refereed conference and journal papers, and co-authored two chapters of Peer-to-Peer (O'Reilly,2001). Rubin is also an Associate Editor of Electronic Commerce Research Journal. His latest research project, Publius, a system forcircumventing censorship on the Internet, won the Index on Censorship's Freedom of Expression Award.
V7 Unix 21 years ago and has been working with Unix systems ever since. He worked for three years at Origin on behalf of Philips Electronics where he wrote a DNS management system and designed, built and ran the DNS infrastructure for the corporate network, one of the biggest in the world. He has over a decade's experience in writing and teaching training courses ranging from kernel internals to system administration and network security to DNS administration. He's a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops in Europe and the US. His book on DNS Administration with BIND9 will be published in late 2001 or early 2002.
in backup and recovery for over seven years and has designed, implemented, and audited enterprisewide backup and recovery systems for many Fortune 500 and e-commerce companies. His O'Reilly & Associates book, UNIX Backup & Recovery, has sold over 20,000 copies, and he writes a regular column for UnixReview online and SysAdmin magazine. Curtis's Web address is https://www.backupcentral.com, and he can be reached at curtis@backupcentral.com.
operating both in Sweden and internationally. He is currently operating his own company, Irial which provides advanced UNIX and network consultancy. Mr. Saell is currently the chairman of EurOpen.SE, and he has been working in the UNIX environment since 1983.
and Internet technologies since 1983. He has written many articles on UNIX, networking, and systems administration issues. Currently he writes the monthly "Daemons & Dragons" column for UNIX Review. William is the editor of the SAGE series "Short Topics in System Administration." He has taught tutorials since 1989 for such organizations as USENIX, the Sun User Group (SUG), MIS Training Institute, IT Forum, and Great Circle Associates, and he is a certified Cisco Systems Instructor. William is the primary programmer for the popular UNIX utility top and has contributed to several widely used UNIX packages, including Wietse Venema's logdaemon package. He can be reached at wnl@groupsys.com or via https://www.groupsys.com/.
career as a system administrator for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) after graduating from WPI in 1992. During his tenure as senior UNIX system administrator, he became involved with beta testing the BIND name server, the sendmail mail transfer agent, and other UNIX utilities such as emacs and screen. He contributed the secure zones functionality included in BIND 4.9.X. When presented with the opportunity to join Sendmail, Inc., he packed his bags and headed west. As lead engineer at Sendmail, Inc., he has continued to support the open source version while working on Sendmail Pro and Sendmail Switch, the commercial versions.
technical manager on and off for nearly two decades, in both large and small companies. At AT&T, he is best known for writing Yacc, Lint, and the Portable C Compiler. He served as the head of the UNIX Languages Department at AT&T's Summit Labs. He has also been involved in a number of Silicon Valley startup companies. He served for ten years on the USENIX Board of Directors, four of them as president. He presented an invited talk on management at LISA three years ago, he has taught USENIX tutorials on technical subjects, and he has led management training seminars at LISA and the USENIX Annual Conference, as well as at Transmeta.
employee of Adobe, where she served in a variety of managerial positions. She now works as a management consultant in Silicon Valley, where she acts as a trainer, coach, and troubleshooter for technical companies. She has presented tutorials at LISA and the USENIX Annual Technical Conferences.
network administration since 1986 and is the author of several related USENIX papers and a number of ;login: articles, including the "On Reliability"series and SAGE booklet. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and is a Chartered Accountant. He is currently the General Manager for CertaintySolutions (formerly known as GNAC) in Toronto. Prior to joining Certainty, John was the Director of Network Engineering at UUNET Canada, and was a staff member in computing and information technology at the University of Waterloo for 11 years.
Computational Fluid Mechanics and is currently working on a second Ph.D. in Parallel Systems. He has been solving practical problems in mathematical modeling in academia and private industry for about 20 years, and has been a UNIX sysadmin for more than 15 years. He uses his personal Beowulf to solve problems in software development, computational fluid dynamics, data analysis,scientific visualization and animation.
UNIX-based solutions since 1989.In the Open Source community, he is known mostly as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He has also contributed to a number of other Apache-related projects and is a member of the Apache-core team.
NetworkAdministration" from O'Reilly and "Linux Network Servers 24seven" from Sybex. Craig is also the series editor for the Craig Hunt Linux Libraryfrom Sybex. This library of advanced system administration books includes his new book "Linux Sendmail Administration". He has more than 20 years of computer experience and more than 10 years experience in training computer science professionals. He is a well-known lecturer, who speaks about networking and Linux at USENIX, Networld+Interop, COMDEX, LinuxBusiness Expo, ComNet and the Open Source Software 
puter security, and the security ofthe UNIX operating system at Purdue where he earned his doctorate in 1984. He has taught courses in computer security, cryptography, operating systems, and software engineering at both Dartmouth College and at the University of California at Davis, where he teaches now. Matt's current research interests are analyzing vulnerabilities in operating systems, protocols, and software in general; denial of service; intrusion detection; and formal models of access control.
over 15 years. She currently looks after a very heterogeneous network of UNIX and Windows NT systems. She is the author of several books, including Essential Windows NT System 
Enterprise Services to join a start-up, where he is applying his 16 years of experience with UNIX development and administration. Previously Marc was an independent consultant and has held positions at NCR, Princeton University, and the University of Waterloo. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of standards-based development, multi-threaded programming, systems administration, and performance tuning.
computer science, mathematics, and music degrees from the University of California. He is currently a principal at CyberWeb Consulting, specializing in software engineering, Web site design and architecture, corporate training, and technical documentation. He has over a decade of programming and instructional experience, and currently is a coordinator for the Silicon Valley-San Francisco Bay Area Python users group (BayPIGgies), a volunteer moderator for the Python Tutor mailing list, and the author of Core Python Programming, the Python book in Prentice Hall's Core series.
min in 1983, and has been leading and managing complex IT projects for many years, serving in roles ranging from Project Manager to Director of Network Operations. She has authored several articles on management and working with teams, and specializes in multi-vendor infrastructure rollouts. Another MIT dropout, Strata is founder and CEO of VirtualNet Consulting, and applies her management skills on various volunteer boards, including BayLISA and SAGE.
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