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[Lisa Lorenzin <lorenzin AT 1000plus.com>]

FYI...

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is upcoming.  Details about the meeting and
directions are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!

                    NC*SA General Meeting
             6:00 pm, Monday, October 14th, 2002
                     Dreyfus Laboratory
                 Research Triangle Institute
                  Research Triangle Park, NC
                     (directions below)

        Topic:  Securing Solaris
        Speaker: Michael Garvin, Vice President, Secure Integrated Systems

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Free Stuff: Thanks to the generosity of one of our members, we will have  
several books on Internet Security to give away after the presentation!   

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Abstract:  Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system is one of the more
popular UNIX variants, often entrusted with critical data and operations.
As such it represents an appealing target for hackers, who have an arsenal
of freely available attack methods and tools at their disposal. To
safeguard against successful attack a strategy of hardening and auditing
is presented, with technical detail as well as best practices included.
Solaris hardening details will be presented to provide a foundation for
understanding, followed by techniques for auditing, analysis and
maintenance. Hardening toolkits and analysis and security software will
also be discussed. Handouts will be provided.

Bio: Michael Garvin is the vice president and a principal consultant with
Secure Integrated Systems, a Triangle area consultancy. His career began
at NC State University, where he assisted with security and incident
response as a systems administrator. He left in 1995 to work at Sun
Microsystems as a systems engineer. He returned to systems architecture
and administration building the Sun infrastructure at Interpath, an
RTP-based service provider, and assisted with their security effort. For
the past year he has been with Secure Integrated Systems providing system,
network and security services to area clients. Michael is a Sun Certified
System and Network Administrator.

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing
food and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please
contact the Steering Committee at:

  ncsa-steer AT ncsysadmin.org

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For information about the NC System Administrators group, please see
our web site at http://www.ncsysadmin.org/

We have several usually-low-volume mailing lists that you can join:

    ncsa-discussion .. general discussion
    ncsa-announce .... meeting announcements
    ncsa-jobs ........ employment opportunities
    ncsa-steer ....... steering committee

These are currently run on a Mailman list manager at 
ncsysadmin.org - please see this page on our web site 
for more information about these lists:  
http://www.ncsysadmin.org/lists.html

(Please note, if you are a member of sage-members AT usenix.org, you
will also get a copy of these announcements.  We cannot unsubscribe
you from that list.)

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Directions to Research Triangle Institute
See also a map to the meeting place.

>From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn
to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going
the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute
Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot
in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

>From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit
to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to
the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the
wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to
the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the
second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the
first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and
enter at the main entrance.

>From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After
turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take
the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of
East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
entrance.

A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif

Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors except one
will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
into Dreyfus Auditorium.

--
Lisa Lorenzin
lorenzin AT 1000plus.com