National Lab Hosts Computer Security Conference

Edward McFadden sends us a conference announcement, to be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on June 27-28, 2000, about security issues with collaborative computing. Click below for the entire announcement. It doesn't give much detail, and I don't see a Web page on the BNL site, so I guess you'll have to e-mail McFadden for complete information.

Event Date: June 27 (Tue) - 28 (Wed), 2000

Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory (managed by Brookhaven Science Associates for the U.S. Department of Energy)

Purpose of the Conference - This conference will explore the issues in providing a collaborative computational environment that is both open and secure. The open, unimpeded flow of information has been a foundation of scientific research, even more so today with the trend toward increasingly large and geographically dispersed teams. This trend has been enabled by advances in IT and has increased dependence on IT, which has exacerbated potential vulnerabilities. Thus, computer security has taken on increasing importance, with the profusion of both malicious and unintended compromises to computing and communications infrastructures. These seemingly divergent considerations must be resolved into a harmonious relationship if information technology tools are to be reliable and effective.

This conference program draws on experiences and viewpoints of the university, industry, government and research laboratory sectors. It will provide a forum for collaboration tool providers, notable collaboration partners, computer security practitioners, and officials responsible for enforcing security provisions. The end objective of the conference is a clearer identification of the issues, and a roadmap that best meets the need of these constituencies.

The Conference Program - The Program will feature eminent speakers who are conversant in the conduct of collaborative science as well as those whose specialty is computer and network security. Notable collaborations in the areas such as Nuclear Physics, Genomics, and Computational Grids will be described. New trends in security threats and protection tools will be presented. The tensions between the needs of open science and the need for responsible security will be identified, and solutions that have been proposed in science and other enterprises will be described. Finally there will be a workshop session to propose next steps to achieve the appropriate balance.

Condensed Translation

[iamplasma]

Roughly translated this means:

Business junket for IT managers, where they can get drunk, exchange ideas freely (you get the drift), and spend incredible amounts on a company expense account.

Who modded down IO?

[iamplasma]

Who modded him down??? While someone will probably flame/mod me down for this, I can't see what he said that made him a troll (more likely the moderator was a troll)

At least it isn't LANL

[kwsNI]

At least they aren't having the security conference at Las Alamos National Labs :)

kwsNI