honeypot related papers and talks at USENIX'05

[Niels Provos <provos () citi umich edu>]

Hello everyone,

just wanted to let you know about some interesting topics at the
USENIX Technical conference this April:

- Dan Ragsdale is going to speak about the Cyberdefense Exercises of
  the military academies in the US.  Some of the academies have used
  honeypot technologies as part of their defense in the past. This
  should be a fun talk.

- The FREENIX track has a paper and talk about QEMU, an open source
  processor emulator that can be used to setup virtual honeypots. It
  runs natively on a variety of systems and also supports user mode
  emulation in Linux.

USENIX Technical is a good conference to meet like-minded people. I
certainly will be there and hope that we can have a BOF on honeypots
where we all talk about interesting honeypot work that we have done
recently.

Hope to see you there,
 Niels.

Ps: I included some information on the conference below:

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