Maritime Security 2015 West is the third installment of the Maritime Security West program series, building upon the successes of last year’s conference in Tacoma, WA. As the thirteenth maritime security conference hosted by Homeland Security Outlook since 2011, Maritime Security 2015 West furthers a commitment to address the needs of governments, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure to counter the challenges of securing coastlin...

The Next Big Thing! – Civil and Commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems The markets for civil and commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are poised to explode. UAS manufacturers who to date have been feeding the huge defense market are being joined by an ever increasing number of non-defense UAS platform and payload developers who are targeting the potentially enormous markets for civil and commercial cap...

We are pleased to invite you to San Diego on May 4-12 for the best cybersecurity training money can buy! SANS Security West 2015 will focus on Emerging Trends and will feature related evening talks and a star-studded, interactive panel discussion on the future of cyber security. We are also bringing new cutting-edge courses and many that are associated with GIAC Certifications. At SANS Security West, you have the opportunity to take courses fr...

The 2015 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium will be hosted February 8-11, 2015 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa in San Diego, California. This 3.5 day event, attended annually by researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government, features presentations on original research and talks by industry leaders. Topics covered include distributed systems and networks, web security and privacy, intrusion de...

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The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks. The Symposium's technical sessions program will offer refereed papers, invited talks, and panel discussions, including: Wednesday's Keynote Address, "Phone Phreaks: What We Can Learn From the First Network Hackers?" from Phil Lapsley,...

The 2014 USENIX Summit on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '14) will be held on Tuesday, August 19, 2014, in conjunction with the 23nd USENIX Security Symposium in San Diego, CA. HotSec aims to bring together researchers across computer security disciplines to discuss the state of the art, with emphasis on future directions and emerging areas.

Progress in the field of computer security is driven by a symbiotic relationship between our understandings of attack and of defense. The 8th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT ’14) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in systems security to present research advancing the understanding of attacks on operating systems, networks, and applications. The daylong program includes 17 refereed paper presentations on...

EVT/WOTE brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from computer science and human-computer interaction experts through political scientists, legal experts, election administrators, and voting equipment vendors. Monday, August 18, 2014 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Monday Continental Breakfast 9:00 a.m.–9:15 a.m. Monday Welcome Walter Mebane, University of Michigan, and Dan S. Wallach, Rice University 9:15 a.m....

CSET focuses on the science of cyber security evaluation, as well as experimentation, measurement, metrics, data, and simulations as those subjects relate to computer and network security and privacy. The day-long program includes: Paper presentations on exploit testing and quantitative security evaluation metrics Morning Panel Discussion on “Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future” Closing Panel Discussion on “Human Enga...