This is the call for participation for the annual Network and Distributed System Security conference, starting in two weeks February 28th to March 2nd in San Diego http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/07/ NDSS is a traditional scholarly academic security conference with a peer reviewed track of papers http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/07/program.shtml However, this year we have made a special effort to make NDSS more relevant to security practitioners by adding an invited talks track focused on security threats by some leading practitioners. Our invited talks schedule is: * Keynote: Vernor Vinge, professor emeritus of computer science at UCSD, founder of the science fiction cyberpunk genre, quadruple Hugo award winner for the novels "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky", and the stories "Fast Times at Fairmont High" and "The Cookie Monster", and notable futurologist for the notion of the technological singularity. Of particular interest to me as a security geek is that software security is a key element of "Deepness in the Sky", and it is *correct* :) * H1kari of ToorCon speaking on "Breaking Wireless and Mac OS-X Encryption with FPGAs" * John Viega, McAfee Chief Security Architect on "Malware in the Real World" * Tom Liston, speaking on work with Ed Skoudis, on "Virtual Machine Security Issues" * Jim Hoagland, speaking on work with Oliver Friedrichs on "A Network Attack Surface Analysis of RTM Windows Vista" * Panel "Red Teaming and Hacking Games: How Much Do They Really Help?", moderated by Crispin Cowan, with panelists: o John Viega, Kenshoto/Defcon CtF organizer o Rodney Thayer, member of a winning Kenshoto/Defcon CtF team o Giovanni Vigna, professor UCSB, leader of 2005 Defcon CtF winning team o Dennis W. Mattison, member of organizing team for ToorCon RootWars CtF game o Rizzo, member of the GhettoHackers, who dominated Defcon CtF for 4 years, and then revolutionized the game with a new set of rules & infrastructure in 2001 We hope for a lively exchange of views in the "hall track" between academic security researchers and industrial security practitioners. Come share your skills and frighten a professor :) Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://crispincowan.com/~crispin/ Director of Software Engineering, Novell http://novell.com Hacking is exploiting the gap between "intent" and "implementation"
