15th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Supported by the Internet Society, Brings Together Internet Security Experts From Around the Globe

Business Wire, Feb 11, 2008

RESTON, Va. & GENEVA -- The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) is now underway in San Diego, California.

The NDSS, supported by the Internet Society, now in its 15th year, is one of the longest-running Internet security conferences on the calendar, drawing leading experts, researchers, and technologists from around the globe to share experience and analysis of security issues in networks and distributed systems.

The significance of NDSS is reflected by the caliber of the symposium sponsors, led by the US National Security Agency and including Afilias, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Google, Microsoft Research, the Dartmouth College Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), and IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.

"NDSS'08 brings together innovative and forward-thinking experts to present papers on a wide range of real-world security scenarios for the Internet," explains Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society.

NDSS'08 features a keynote address by Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital, Inc, a discussion on virtualization and security by a panel of industry experts, and more than 20 peer-reviewed papers by security researchers from leading universities and companies around the globe.

"These are some of the brightest minds in their fields, focusing on the practical aspects of network and distributed system security," says Doug Szajda, General Symposium Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Richmond.

"The topics covered emphasize real-world system design and implementation, encouraging and enabling the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technology."

Participants from 13 countries have gathered for a three-day program of papers and discussions on topics ranging from large scale systems, collaborative systems, privacy, software hardening, reverse engineering, intrusion prevention, and malware.

NDSS'08 is being held at The Dana on Mission Bay, San Diego, 10-13 February 2008. Full program and registration details are available at: http://www.isoc.org/ndss/08.> About the Internet Society

The Internet Society is an independent international nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, and with more than 80 chapters worldwide, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.

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