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This month's meeting:

  "Logging and Monitoring:  Technical and Legal Aspects"

  Dr. Peter Honeyman and Joseph M. Saul, of the University of
  Michigan.

  Sponsored by the Network Security Business Unit (in Dublin, Ohio) of
  Ascend Communications, Inc. and The Ohio State University (see
  below).

  Peter and Joe will give a lively presentation covering the technical
  and legal issues involved with logging and monitoring computer
  activity of all sorts.  I have given them copies of some of OSU's
  policies, practices and guidelines regarding these issues so that
  they can inject some local flavor into the talk.  Although we will
  be talking to some degree about OSU specific issues, I think that
  the discussion will be of interest to everyone since they'll be
  using us as examples (both good and bad, I'm sure), not as primary
  source material.

  Peter and Joe prepared this talk for the Committee on Institutional
  Cooperation (CIC) Security Education Consortium.  The CIC Security
  Education Consortium is a unique, cooperative arrangement among the
  CIC member institutions to make available low-cost, high quality
  training and educational opportunities in the security aspects of
  system and network administration.  The Logging and Monitoring
  seminar will be the first of these to be held at OSU.

  Peter and Joe gave a condensed version of this talk as an Invited
  Talk at the 1997 LISA conference last week which was well received. 

When and Where

  Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we are holding this month's meeting
  on Wednesday, November 19th (and *not* the 26th, as it would usually
  be).  The meeting will be longer than usual as well - the meeting
  itself will start promptly at 1 PM, and will last until around 5 PM.
  We'll take an afternoon break (with light refreshments).

  Since we expect a slightly higher attendance than usual, we're
  meeting in a different location as well.  I've arranged for us to
  use Mount Hall 145, a large auditorium on West Campus.  There's
  plenty of parking there for campus people with passes, and some
  meters in front of the building for visitors.  Note that there are
  only about 15 meters - I will happily arrange for parking passes for
  those who don't want to chance the meters, but you'll need to RSVP
  with me so that I know how many to get.

Getting There and Parking

  For a campus map, see http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/uts/campus
  /sectors/campus.html (that's all one long URL, ignore the line
  break).  Click on "building index", look for "Mount Hall", enlarge
  and pan around in the map (using the edges and corners of the map).
  Mount Hall is where our office of Continuing Education is.

  From Lane Avenue, turn South on Kenny, then West (right) on Carmack
  Rd.  At this point, Mount Hall is on your far right.  If you have a
  campus parking pass, park in the big lot to the left and walk on
  over.  There are a few parking meters around the loop directly in
  front of Mount Hall.  If you need a pass, pull up in front of Mount
  Hall and come inside to get a parking pass from me (but *please*
  RSVP so that I know you need one in advance).  Then you can proceed
  to the big parking lot.  There's a walkway running from the
  Northeast corner of the parking lot, across Carmack Rd toward Mount
  Hall.  

RSVP's and Questions

  If you plan to attend, we would appreciate it if you could let us
  know.  This is especially important if you will be needing parking
  passes - I need to pick those up a day or two ahead of time, and
  will need to know how many to procure.  If you don't RSVP, you may be
  stuck circling and circling, looking for a parking meter.  I'd also
  like to ensure that we have plenty of handouts, refreshments and so
  on.  If you could RSVP by Monday, November 17th, that would be
  great. 

  To RSVP, or if you have questions, you can (preferably) send mail to
  romig@net.ohio-state.edu or call me at 688-3412.

About the Speakers

  Peter Honeyman

    Peter Honeyman is Research Scientist in the University of
    Michigan's Information Technology Division, where he serves as
    Director of the Center for Information Technology Integration.  He
    is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and
    Computer Science.

    Honeyman holds the B.G.S. (with distinction) from the University
    of Michigan and the M.S.E., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton
    University.  He has been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs
    and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton
    University.

    Honeyman has been instrumental in several software projects,
    including Honey DanBer UUCP, PathAlias, MacNFS, and Disconnected
    AFS.  His research focus is on security in distributed systems and
    distributed file systems for mobile computing.  He is the author
    of dozens of journal and conference papers and serves regularly on
    conference program committees.  He was program chair for the 1995
    USENIX Conference and the 1996 Third International Workshop on
    Services in Distributed and Networked Environments.

    Honeyman is a Director of the USENIX Association and a member of
    AAAS and EFF.

  Joseph M. Saul

    Joseph M. Saul is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Office of
    Policy Development and Education in the Information Technology
    Division of the University of Michigan.  He is also a student at
    the University of Michigan law school.  Prior to coming to
    Michigan, Mr. Saul was employed in various positions in the
    computer industry, thus, bringing the perspective of both an
    information technology and legal specialist to the complex issues
    surrounding logging and monitoring.  Joe holds a B.S. degree (with
    honors and distinction) from the University of Michigan and is one
    semester away from a J.D. at the same institution.
  
A Message About Our Sponsor

  The Network Security Business Unit (in Dublin, OH) of Ascend
  Communications has graciously agreed to sponsor refreshments and
  parking for the monthly OSU network security meetings.  This
  business unit of Ascend was formerly known as MorningStar
  Technologies before they were purchased by Ascend in April of 1996.

  The Dublin group is currently responsible for the following Ascend
  products: firewall (Secure Access), radius server (Access Control),
  encrypted remote access (Remote Access).  They are also responsible
  for developing new products related to intrusion detection, IP
  security, public key infrastructure, security management and
  security auditing.

  For more information, contact Karl.Fox@ascend.com or
  Greg.Shannon@ascend.com.  You can find the Ascend web pages at
  http://www.ascend.com. 

  Thank you Very Much!

Next month:

  Note that next month we are rescheduling the meeting as well.  I
  suspect that we will meet on the 3rd Wednesday, but haven't made
  arrangements yet.  Stay tuned.  I think we may discuss recent events
  regarding cryptography, but we'll see.

About these meetings:

  The Network Security Group meetings are usually held on the fourth
  Wednesday of each month from 4-6 PM on the Ohio State University
  main campus in Columbus (usually in Baker Systems 120).  The goal of
  our meetings is to share information about computer security tools,
  practices and problems.  Anyone and everyone are invited to attend.

  We also have mailing lists for people who are interested in
  discussing network security issues, or who just want announcements
  about meetings and security bulletins.  Send mail to
  netwog-security-request@lists.net.ohio-state.edu for more
  information.

--- Steve