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,...

HealthTech, formerly HealthSec, is now in its second year with a broader scope designed to encourage the development of new technologies that generally improve the quality and safety of healthcare as well as the access to it. By bringing together researchers, practitioners, and industrial partners, HealthTech aims to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary interactions among the technology, medicine, and policy communities. The day-long summit...

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...

FOCI '14 seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners working on means to study, detect, or circumvent practices that inhibit free and open communications on the Internet.

The USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games and Gamification in Security Education (3GSE '14), to be co-located with USENIX Security '14, is designed to bring together educators and game designers working in the growing field of digital games, non-digital games, pervasive games, gamification, contests, and competitions for computer security education. The summit will attempt to represent, through invited talks, panels, and demonstrations, a variety of...

Back for 2014, USENIX is combining conferences and workshops, both established and new, into one week chock full of research, training, and information. The USENIX Federated Conferences Week offers a unique opportunity to gain insight into a variety of hot topics, while the joint lunches, breaks, and evening events provide cross-topic networking possibilities. Want to learn more about Hadoop, Jenkins, Apache CloudStack, SRE, or the best practi...

USENIX is excited to announce the launch of the inaugural SREcon14, which will bring together the site reliability engineering community to discuss the evolution and future of this technical realm. There’s much more to running a large-scale architecture than just pure software development: in order to have a system that can run 24/7, reliability, performance, and efficiency must also be considered. When you look at every single piece of...