Preliminary Announce: First SELinux Symposium

[Frank Mayer]

                       Preliminary Announcement 
                      
               FIRST SECURITY ENHANCED LINUX SYMPOSIUM
                           
 
The inaugural symposium on Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is being 
planned for March 2005 in the Washington, D.C., USA area. SELinux 
brings the power of type enforcement (TE), a flexible mandatory access 
control mechanism, to Linux. This announcement is to make the 
community aware of the preliminary plans for the symposium, and 
solicit interests in participation.  The symposium will be an 
opportunity to learn about SELinux and share technical and application 
experiences.  

The tentative format for the symposium is a 3-day conference, with one 
day for tutorials and two days for technical presentations and 
interchange.  Those interested in submitting presentation or tutorial 
proposals may do so at sel-symposium at tresys.com. Topics of interest 
include:

	+ History and design of SELinux
	+ Use and application of TE Enforcement in securing systems
	+ TE policy development and analysis
	+ Use and Configuration of MLS and RBAC in securing systems
	+ Updates on the various Linux distributions using SELinux
	+ Practical "root"-less system administration policies
	+ Example system solutions using SELinux, case studies
	+ On-going and planed enhancements to SELinux
	+ On-going research and development activities
	+ Tools and products supporting/using SELinux
	+ Security evaluation and certification issues
	+ Tutorials

The exact dates, location, and cost of the symposium are to be 
determined. Future information will be posted in the following web 
site: www.tresys.com/selinux/symposium 

The organizing committees for the symposium are as follows:

Technical Committee:
 
	Joshua Brindle, Tresys
	Russell Coker, Red Hat
	Chad Hanson, TCS
	Howard Holm, NSA
	Trent Jaeger, IBM
	Karl MacMillan, Tresys
	Frank Mayer, Tresys
	James Morris, Red Hat
	Ed Reed, Novell
	Doc Shankar, IBM
	Stephen Smalley, NSA
	Daniel Walsh, Red Hat
 
 
Tutorial Committee:

	David Caplan, Tresys
	Howard Holm, NSA
	Karl MacMillan, Tresys