[ias-opportunities] ACSAC 2008 registration is open!

[Carrie Gates <gates@cs.dal.ca>]

ACSAC 2008 is Open for Registration! 
http://www.acsac.org/

We would like to invite you to attend this year's ACSAC conference in Anaheim, 
CA. We have an outstanding program (http://www.acsac.org/2008/program) 
organized in three tracks, featuring invited speakers, peer-reviewed technical 
papers, case studies, tutorials, a workshop, a works in progress session and 
panels.  There will be plenty of opportunities to network with your colleagues 
from around the globe, and if you are a CISSP, to earn continued education 
credits.

The advance program is posted and registration is now open at
http://www.acsac.org/2008/registration. The deadline for securing the 
early registration discount and hotel room discount is November 15, 2008. 
Please make sure you reserve your hotel room (http://www.acsac.org/hotel) 
before you register for the conference in order to get the hotel room 
discount on the registration fee.

Program highlights include:

* Two days of tutorials on leading edge topics, including: data mining for 
intrusion detection, securing PHP web applications, cryptographic techniques 
for digital rights management, analysis of large-scale network data, web 
services security, web injection attacks, and application security risk 
analysis.  Worth noting, for those of you with CISSP (or companies requiring 
continuous learning), ACSAC Tutorials are an excellent way of staying 
up-to-date with current trends and technologies in our area of expertise.

* A full day workshop on Virtualization Security

* 42 refereed papers, 6 case studies sessions, 3 panels, and our always 
popular Works in Progress session.  Together these cover a wide range of 
research topics, from security for Web 2.0 and mobile computing to malware 
and forensics, as well as practical information on topics such as the 
federal government software assurance initiatives and DNI-DOD Certification 
and Accreditation.

* Exciting plenary sessions featuring our four invited talks:

     -- Whitfield Diffie, this year's Distinguished Practitioner, will 
        talk about (in)security in a web-services world, drawing parallels 
        from previous disruptive technologies

     -- O. Sami Saydjari, CEO of Cyber Defense Agency LLC, will describe a 
        blueprint for a cyber Manhattan Project

     -- Stephanie Forrest will revisit the use of system call monitoring 
        and biological analogies as applied to intrusion detection

     -- Barbara Fraser and Stephen Crocker will talk about the changes in 
        network security and network security requirements since RFC 1281 was 
        written 17 years ago

Last but not least: The social events include a welcome reception on 
Tuesday night, a dinner on Wednesday night, and an optional whale watching 
cruise on Friday afternoon.

We hope to see you in Anaheim!

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