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

Opening Remarks, Awards, Keynote

Brent ByungHoon Kang, Gautam Singaraju, Sumeet Jain:
Privilege Messaging: An Authorization Framework over Email Infrastructure. 1-16
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
Daniel V. Klein:
A Forensic Analysis of a Distributed Two-Stage Web-Based Spam Attack (Awarded Honorable Mention!). 31-40

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

Anh-Quynh Nguyen, Ruo Ando, Yoshiyasu Takefuji:
Centralized Security Policy Support for Virtual Machine. 79-87
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

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
Ning Wu, Alva L. Couch:
Experience Implementing an IP Address Closure. 119-130
Mark Burgess, Alva L. Couch:
Modeling Next Generation Configuration Management Tools. 131-147

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

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

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

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
Jon Finke:
Unifying Unified Voice Messaging. 275-285
Daniel S. Crosta, Matthew J. Singleton, Benjamin A. Kuperman:
Fighting Institutional Memory Loss: The Trackle Integrated Issue and Solution Tracking System. 287-298

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

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

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