All, we just announced that Richard Schaeffer, NSA Director of Information Assurance, will be a keynote speaker at the SELinux symposium this March (I've attached the press release below). He joins Daniel Frye of IBM as our two keynote speakers this year. As a reminder early registration ends February 23. After that date the conference rate goes up some, but as important, the block of reserved hotel rooms for the conference are no longer assured. So if you are planning to come to the symposium this year, I recommend you register by that date. Regards, Frank -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Security Agency Director of Information Assurance to be Keynote Speaker at Third Security Enhanced Linux Symposium Baltimore, MarylandFebruary 7, 2007 Richard Schaeffer, Director of Information Assurance for the National Security Agency (NSA), will be a keynote speaker for the third annual Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium (www.selinux-symposium.org), scheduled for March 12-16, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland. The Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) is the NSA mission element charged with providing products and services critical to protecting the United States¹ national security systems. IAD is also responsible for defining and implementing the Information Assurance Strategy to protect the Department of Defense¹s (DoD) Global Information Grid (GIG). Moreover, IAD supports ongoing military operations against terrorism by delivering solutions that allow the secure and dynamic sharing of information across security domains at multiple classification levels in today¹s net-centric environment. Consistent with its national security mission, NSA originally developed and publicly released SELinux as a demonstration that high-end security access control features could be successfully integrated into mainstream open source technology. At this year¹s symposium, Mr. Schaeffer will present a keynote address entitled ³SELinux: An Example of a Better Path to Information Assurance through Partnership.² In this address, Mr. Schaeffer will discuss the benefits to both Government and business organizations that can be gained by working with the open source community. About the SELinux Symposium The Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium is an annual exchange of ideas, technology, and research involving SELinux. SELinux is emerging technology that adds flexible, strong mandatory access control security to Linux. The third annual symposium is scheduled for March 12-16, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. This year's symposium is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Red Hat, and Tresys Technology. The event brings together experts from business, government, and academia to share research, development, and application experiences using SELinux. For information on registration and sponsorship opportunities, see www.selinux-symposium.org. -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
