Eleventh Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Program Overview

Monday, December 11

• ACSAC Tutorials:
  • Network Firewall Security.
  • New Approaches to Quantitative Trustworthiness.
  • Developing a Commercial Security Architecture.
  • CORBA Security.

• DISA Symposium: INFOWAR-Defend.

Tuesday, December 12

• ACSAC Tutorials:
  • Protection Profiles and the Common Criteria.
  • Preliminary Experience with Evolving Standards for Open Systems Security.
  • High and Low Assurance: The Differences.
  • Authentication and Key Distribution Systems.

• DISA Symposium: INFOWAR-Defend (continued).

• Special ACM Workshop on Electronic Commerce.

Wednesday, December 13

• Technical tracks cover the following subjects:
  • Firewalls.
  • Database security.
  • Trusted distributed systems.
  • Application of DOD Guidelines to non-DOD systems.
  • Experiences using the Common Criteria to develop protection profiles and security targets.
  • Security Engineering.

• The vendor track cover the following subjects:
  • Secure Network Applications.
  • Firewalls.
  • Solutions initiated for the banking community.

Thursday, December 14

• Plenary Panel: Your Applications vs. The Info-Warriors: Who's going to win?

• Technical tracks cover the following subjects:
  • Guards.
  • Intrusion Detection.
  • Cryptography.
  • Roads to Assurance.
  • SSE CMM--Does it provide appropriate system assurance?
  • Access Control.

• The vendor track cover the following subjects:
  • Confidentiality.
  • Data Storage and Retrieval.
  • Guards and Network Services.

Friday, December 15

• Technical tracks cover the following subjects:
  • Assurance.
  • Formal Tools.
  • Aggregation--Three Approaches in Practice.
  • Two views of security risk management.

• The vendor track covers the following subjects:
  • Encryption.
  • Audit and Analysis.

• Wednesday Evening: Reception and Vendor Displays

• Thursday Evening: Conference Dinner Aboard the Cajun Queen

• Friday Afternoon: Circling the Crescent City