18. LISA 2004: Atlanta, USA

Opening Remarks, Awards, Keynote

• Howard Ginsberg:
  Keynote Address: Going Digital at CNN.
  

SPAM/Email

• Jeremy Blosser, David Josephsen:
  Scalable Centralized Bayesian Spam Mitigation with Bogofilter (Awarded Best Paper!). 1-20
  
• Nils Einar Eide, Andreas N. Blaafadt, Baard H. Rehn Johansen, Frode Eika Sandnes:
  DIGIMIMIR: A Tool for Rapid Situation Analysis of Helpdesk and Support Email. 21-32
  
• Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Chad Verbowski, Aaron Johnson, Ming-Wei Wu, Yennun Huang, Sy-Yen Kuo:
  Gatekeeper: Monitoring Auto-Start Extensibility Points (ASEPs) for Spyware Management. 33-46
  

Intrusion and Vulnerability Detection

• Sufatrio, Roland H. C. Yap, Liming Zhong:
  A Machine-Oriented Vulnerability Database for Automated Vulnerability Detection and Processing. 47-58
  
• Axelle Apvrille, David Gordon, Serge E. Hallyn, Makan Pourzandi, Vincent Roy:
  DigSig: Runtime Authentication of Binaries at Kernel Level. 59-66
  
• Swapnil Patil, Anand Kashyap, Gopalan Sivathanu, Erez Zadok:
  I³FS: An In-Kernel Integrity Checker and Intrusion Detection File System. 67-78
  

Configuration Management

• Eelco Dolstra, Merijn de Jonge, Eelco Visser:
  Nix: A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment. 79-92
  
• William LeFebvre, David Snyder:
  Auto-configuration by File Construction: Configuration Management with newfig. 93-104
  
• Sergei Mikhailov, Jonathan Robert Stanton:
  AIS: A Fast, Disk Space Efficient "Adaptable Installation System" Supporting Multitudes of Diverse Software Configurations. 105-112
  

Networking

• Christopher J. Tengi, James M. Roberts, Joseph R. Crouthamel, Chris M. Miller, Christopher M. Sanchez:
  autoMAC: A Tool for Automating Network Moves, Adds, and Changes. 113-120
  
• Carrie Gates, Michael Collins, Michael Duggan, Andrew Kompanek, Mark Thomas:
  More Netflow Tools for Performance and Security. 121-132
  

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• Chad Verbowski, John Dunagan, Brad Daniels, Yi-Min Wang: Experience Talk: FDR: A Flight Data Recorder Using Black-BoxAnalysis of Persistent State Changes for Managing Change and Configuration.
• John P. Rouillard:
  Real-time Log File Analysis Using the Simple Event Correlator (SEC). 133-150
  
• Ni Lao, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma, Yi-Min Wang:
  Combining High Level Symptom Descriptions and Low Level State Information for Configuration Fault Diagnosis. 151-158
  

System Integrity

• Ted Bonkenburg, Dejan Diklic, Benjamin Reed, Mark A. Smith, Michael Vanover, Steve Welch, Roger Williams:
  LifeBoat: An Autonomic Backup and Restore Solution. 159-170
  
• Joseph R. Crouthamel, James M. Roberts, Christopher M. Sanchez, Christopher J. Tengi:
  PatchMaker: A Physical Network Patch Manager Tool. 171-176
  
• Gregory Pluta, Larry Brumbaugh, William Yurcik, Joseph Tucek:
  Who Moved My Data? A Backup Tracking System for Dynamic Workstation Environments. 177-186
  

Security

• Marc Dougherty:
  Making a Game of Network Security. 187-194
  
• Paul Brett, Mic Bowman, Jeff Sedayao, Robert Adams, Rob C. Knauerhase, Aaron Klingaman:
  Securing the PlanetLab Distributed Testbed: How to Manage Security in an Environment with No Firewalls, with All Users Having Root, and No Direct Physical Control of Any System. 195-202
  
• Robert A. Napier:
  Secure Automation: Achieving Least Privilege with SSH, Sudo, and Suid. 203-212
  

Theory

• Steven Schwartzberg, Alva L. Couch:
  Experience in Implementing an HTTP Service Closure. 213-230
  
• Jon Finke:
  Meta Change Queue: Tracking Changes to People, Places, and Things. 231-240
  
• Daniel Price, Andrew Tucker:
  Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads. 241-254
  

Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)

Invited Talks

• Alva L. Couch:
  What Is This Thing Called System Configuration?
  
• Mark Burgess: Anomaly Detection: Whatever Happened to Computer Immunology?
• Lisa Phillips, Brad Fitzpatrick:
  LiveJournal's Backend and memcached: Past, Present, and Future.
  
• Michael Ciavarella: Documentation.
• Peter H. Salus: The Administrator, Then and Now.
• Keri Carpenter, Thomas A. Limoncelli:
  Lessons Learned from Howard Dean's Digital Campaign.
  

Spam Mini-Symposium

• Joshua Goodman: Filtering, Stamping, Blocking, Anti-Spoofing: How to Stop the Spam.
• Douglas Hughes:
  Lessons Learned Reimplementing an ISP Mail Service Infrastructure to Cope with Spam.
  
• John Graham-Cumming:
  What Spammers Are Doing to Get Around Bayesian Filtering & What We Can Expect for the Future.
  

Plenary Session

• Bill Van Etten:
  A System Administrator's Introduction to Bioinformatics.
  

Network/Security/Professional Track

• John Nicholson:
  What Information Security Laws Mean For You.
  
• Brian Pawlowski:
  NFS, Its Applications and Future.
  
• Jim Nisbet:
  The Security Role of Linguistic Content Analysis.
  
• Esther Filderman, Ken McInnis:
  Grid Computing: Just What Is It and Why Should I Care?
  
• Trey Harris: A New Approach to Scripting.
• Daniel V. Klein:
  Flying Linux.
  
• David N. Blank-Edelman:
  System Administration and Sex Therapy: The Gentle Art of Debugging.
  
• Simson L. Garfinkel:
  Used Disk Drives.
  
• W. Curtis Preston: Storage Security: You're Fooling Yourself.

Guru Sessions

• Gerald Carter: Samba.
• Michael Bartosh: Mac OS X.
• Bdale Garbee: Linux.
• W. Curtis Preston: Backups.
• Esther Filderman: AFS.
• Robert Sparks: VoIP and IETF Standards.
• Douglas Hughes, Darren Dunham: RAID/HA/SAN (with a Heavy Dose of Veritas).
• David W. Parter: Professional Growth.
• Gene Kim: Configuration Management.

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