20. LISA 2006: Washington, DC, USA

Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Systems Administration (LISA 2006), Washington, DC, USA, December 3-8, 2006. USENIX 2006 BibTeX

Opening Remarks, Awards, Keynote

Cory Doctorow:
Keynote Address: Hollywood's Secret War on Your NOC.
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Electronic Mail

Brent ByungHoon Kang, Gautam Singaraju, Sumeet Jain:
Privilege Messaging: An Authorization Framework over Email Infrastructure. 1-16
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Roberto Cecchini, Fulvia Costa, Alberto D'Ambrosio, Domenico Diacono, Giacomo Fazio, Antonio Forte, Matteo Genghini, Michele Michelotto, Ombretta Pinazza, Alfonso Sparano:
Securing Electronic Mail on the National Research and Academic Network of Italy. 17-29
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Daniel V. Klein:
A Forensic Analysis of a Distributed Two-Stage Web-Based Spam Attack (Awarded Honorable Mention!). 31-40
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Boundaries

Robert M. Marmorstein, Phil Kearns:
Firewall Analysis with Policy-based Host Classification. 41-51
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Lap-Chung Lam, Yang Yu, Tzi-cker Chiueh:
Secure Mobile Code Execution Service. 53-62
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Adam J. Slagell, Kiran Lakkaraju, Katherine Luo:
FLAIM: A Multi-level Anonymization Framework for Computer and Network Logs. 63-77
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Security

Anh-Quynh Nguyen, Ruo Ando, Yoshiyasu Takefuji:
Centralized Security Policy Support for Virtual Machine. 79-87
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Melanie R. Rieback, Georgi Gaydadjiev, Bruno Crispo, Rutger F. H. Hofman, Andrew S. Tanenbaum:
A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration (Awarded Best Paper!). 89-102
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Theory

Chetan Shiva Shankar, Vanish Talwar, Subu Iyer, Yuan Chen, Dejan S. Milojicic, Roy H. Campbell:
Specification-Enhanced Policies for Automated Management of Changes in IT Systems. 103-118
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Ning Wu, Alva L. Couch:
Experience Implementing an IP Address Closure. 119-130
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Mark Burgess, Alva L. Couch:
Modeling Next Generation Configuration Management Tools. 131-147
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Analysis

Archana Ganapathi, Viji Ganapathi, David A. Patterson:
Windows XP Kernel Crash Analysis. 149-159
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Doo San Sim, V. N. Venkatakrishnan:
SUEZ: A Distributed Safe Execution Environment for System Administration Trials. 161-173
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Rajiv Ramnath, Sufatrio, Roland H. C. Yap, Wu Yongzheng:
WinResMon: A Tool for Discovering Software Dependencies, Configuration, and Requirements in Microsoft Windows. 175-186
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Systems and Network Management

Chad Verbowski, Juhan Lee, Xiaogang Liu, Roussi Roussev, Yi-Min Wang:
LiveOps: Systems Management as a Service. 187-203
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Kyrre M. Begnum:
Managing Large Networks of Virtual Machines. 205-214
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Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Cory Lueninghoener:
Directing Change Using Bcfg2. 215-220
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Visualization

Brian Trammell, Carrie Gates:
NAF: The NetSA Aggregated Flow Tool Suite. 221-231
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Athanasios Douitsis, Dimitrios Kalogeras:
Interactive Network Management Visualization with SVG and AJAX. 233-245
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Glenn A. Fink, Vyas Duggirala, Ricardo Correa, Chris North:
Bridging the Host-Network Divide: Survey, Taxonomy, and Solution. 247-262
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Potpourri

Andrew Pavlo, Peter Couvares, Rebekah Gietzel, Anatoly Karp, Ian D. Alderman, Miron Livny, Charles Bacon:
The NMI Build & Test Laboratory: Continuous Integration Framework for Distributed Computing Software. 263-273
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Jon Finke:
Unifying Unified Voice Messaging. 275-285
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Daniel S. Crosta, Matthew J. Singleton, Benjamin A. Kuperman:
Fighting Institutional Memory Loss: The Trackle Integrated Issue and Solution Tracking System. 287-298
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Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPS)

Invited Talks

Elizabeth D. Zwicky:
Teaching Problem Solving: You Can and You Should.
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Alexander Muentz:
Sysadmins, Network Managers, and Wiretap Law.
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Thomas A. Limoncelli: Site Reliability at Google/My First Year at Google. BibTeX
Patrick McGovern: Leveraging the IT Community. BibTeX
D. J. Byrne:
Open Source Software and Its Role in Space Exploration.
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Michael Baum: Virtualization: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly. BibTeX
Mazda A. Marvasti:
Everything You Know About Monitoring Is Wrong.
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Lee Damon, Evan Marcus:
Is Entropy Winning? Drowning in the Data Tsunami.
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Daniel V. Klein: Perfect Data in an Imperfect World. BibTeX
Adam Haberlach:
QA and the System Administrator.
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Eric Hennessey:
High Availability: From Luxury to Commonplace Necessity in 10 Years.
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Cat Okita: What Do You Mean, Identity 2.0?. BibTeX
Danny O'Brien:
The Last, Best Hope: Sysadmins and DBAs as the Last Guardians of Privacy.
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Andrew Seely:
Command and Control: System Administration at U.S. Central Command.
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W. Curtis Preston:
Seriously, Tape-Only Backup Systems Are Dead.
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Aloke Guha:
Power-Managed Storage: Longer Data Life and Lower Energy Consumption.
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Chad Verbowski: System Administration: Drowning in Management Complexity. BibTeX

Network Security Track

Dan Kaminsky: Black Ops 2006: Pattern Recognition. BibTeX
Dmitri Alperovitch: Zombies and Botnets: Attacks on Messaging Security by Organized Criminal Enterprises. BibTeX
Mark Loveless:
Corporate Security: A Hacker Perspective.
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Guru Sessions

Joseph Radin: UNIX and Microsoft Interoperability. BibTeX
Howard Chu: LDAP. BibTeX
Douglas Hughes: Spam. BibTeX
Robert Sparks: VoIP. BibTeX
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Adam Moskowitz: How to Get Your Paper Accepted at LISA. BibTeX http: //www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/tech/slides/limoncelli_getacc.pdf
Thomas A. Limoncelli: Time Management for System Administrators. BibTeX http: //www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/tech/slides/limoncelli_time.pdf
John Arrasjid, John Gannon, Michael DiPetrillo: Virtualization and the Virtual Infrastructure. BibTeX
W. Curtis Preston: Backups. BibTeX

Hit the Ground Running Track

Jon Finke: Identity Management. BibTeX
Esther Filderman: AFS. BibTeX
Chris Page: Build a Linux Oracle RAC Cluster. BibTeX
Michael Eisler: NFSv4. BibTeX
Douglas Hughes: SNMP. BibTeX
Adam Moskowitz: Bad Interview Questions. BibTeX
John Littell: Spam. BibTeX
Thomas Limoncelli: Mac OS X. BibTeX
Narayan Desai: bcfg2. BibTeX
Luke Kanies: Puppet. BibTeX