Proposal information and submission

Thank you for your interest in presenting at UCCSC2009-Focus on Security at UC Davis. Proposals will be accepted January 16th - February 13th, 2009 via the online proposal submission form.

YOUR PROPOSAL SHOULD INCLUDE:

• Contact information for yourself and any co-presenters or panelists
• Type (e.g., lecture, hands-on lab) and technical level of your presentation
• How much time you will need to present. Session lengths are 45 minutes, 1 hour, 2.25 hours and 3 hours. These times are intended to accommodate in-depth and technical content.
• Information about configuration requirements for the lab systems(for hands-on labs)
• A presentation title
• A brief abstract (no more than 100 words) which will be used with the title on the event registration site
• A presentation outline (no more than 500 words) that will be used to determine which proposals are included in the conference. This is the meat of your proposal and should be a concise summary of what you plan to cover in your session
• A summary of what you expect your audience to know when they walk in to the room, and who the audience is. This will help attendees determine which presentations will be most useful for them.
• A brief description of your (and your co-presenters') experience in the area you're discussing

ABOUT THE ONLINE SUBMISSION PROCESS:

• Before starting the online submissio process, we advise that you prepare all the necessary information in advance as everything has to be entered and submitted in a single session.
• You may move forward and backward through the form, but if you leave the site without submitting you will not be able to pick up where you left off.
• You may not edit your proposal after it has been submitted.
• When you are ready to submit, click on the Submit proposal now link on the left.

TOPIC IDEAS

Although the theme of the conference is "Focus on Security," we are seeking proposals for lectures, tutorials, hands-on labs and panel discussions on a wide array of topics. Below is a list of topic areas that the planning team developed. Please feel free to add to it, depart from it or choose from it.

IT Management Issues

• Security vs Productivity: Finding Balance
• Best bang for the IT Buck?
• IT Funding Strategies
• Data Security Policies
• Identity Management Strategies

User Support

• How to Train Users to Recognize Social Engineering
• Password Policies and Management
• User Education: Engaging Cooperation
• What All UC Employees Need to Know About FERPA
• Remote Support
  • Phone helpdesk
  • Tools for Remote Support

    Remote Assistance/Desktop

    Remote Administration

• New Regulations, New Policy: HIPPA, Health Info and State Law
• How Do You Get Them to Read: Communicating about Technology

Technology in Teaching and Reseach

• Virtual Reality
• Reaching Beyond Campus Borders

Security Techniques

• IDS/IPS
• Firewalls
• Honey (pot/net/wall)
• Encryption
• How I Secured the Database
• EFS – Blocking the Sys Admin
• Laptops
• My System is Acting Funny: Detecting and Removing Malware
• Scanning for Identity Information
  • Identity Finder
  • Proventsure
• Campus Emergency Notification Systems

Programming/DB Design

• Should You Really be Doing That With That?
  • Not Using the SSN as a Primary Key
  • Extracting data subsets to be served to the Web

Web Safety

• Scripting Principles/Preventing Attacks (sql-inj, x-scr) (general)
• Specific Scripting Languages (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Perl, PHP): Secure scripting techniques
• Why Style Sheets will Save Your Bacon
• Forms Data Validation
• Appropriate Control: Client Side/Server Side
• Security Scanners: Watchfire and Open Source

Systems/Server/Network Administration

• Permissions/Access Control
• AD/OU Design
• Bank and DOJ Network Design
• Patching
• Top 10 Security Techniques for the Neophyte Administrator

Quick links

• Sautter awards
• Letter to UC-wide IT leadership
• Letter to UC Davis advisory groups
• UCCSC FAQ
• Conference committee
• Things to do

 

Contact us

Comments or questions: uccsc2009@ucdavis.edu