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SAGE Speakers Bureau: Sorted by Topic

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AIX
AIX System Administration [James D. Corder]
Backups/Disaster Planning and Recovery
IT Disaster Recovery 101 - Models and Best Practices [Jesse Robbins]
Managing NetBackup [David Chapa]
Budgeting/Business Models
Making & Measuring your IT Investment [Henry Theberge]
Databases
Oracle Administration for Systems Administrators [Leeland Artra]
Electronic Communications
The Way Things Work: How Computers Communicate [David von Vistauxx]
Email/DNS/Spam
Demystifying Sendmail [Hal Pomeranz]
Design and Implementation of Highly Scalable Internet E-mail Systems [Brad Knowles]
Domain Name Server Comparison: BIND 8 vs. BIND 9 vs. djbdns vs. ??? [Brad Knowles]
MTA Performance Comparison: sendmail & postfix on *BSD [Brad Knowles]
Scalable IMAP Services: Theory, Practice, and Non-technical Issues [Brad Knowles]
Various topics on email and DNS administration [David Parter]
Hardware
Pitfalls in Assessing High-Performance Computers for Scientific/Engineering Applications [Myron Ginsberg]
Law
The Legal Issues of Information Warfare [Charles Dodd]
Linux
Hands On Linux Security [Rik Farrow]
Introducing Bastille Linux [Jon Lasser]
Top Ten Things You Need to do to Secure Your Linux Box [Jon Lasser]
Networks
Network Traffic Statistics [Evi Nemeth]
Operations
Adopting the Incident Command System (ICS) to manage emergencies, changes, and surprises in your organization [Jesse Robbins]
Programming
UNIX for Programmers [James D. Corder]
Project Management
Building the Successful IT Team [James D. Corder]
Rules and Regulations
A Sarbanes-Oxley scorecard [Henry Theberge]
How to Comply & Save Money [Henry Theberge]
Prime Suspect: Confessions of a Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower (Internal Controls) [Nell Walton]
Security
3rd Party Audits: What to Expect. [Peter Shipley]
Advanced Intrusion Pattern Analysis [Stephen Northcutt]
Asymmetrical warfare weapons and U.S. dependence on the grid. [Charles Dodd]
Basics of Unix Security [Peter Galvin]
Corporate Espionage Threats to Your Organization [Jeffery Stutzman]
Cyber Espionage effects on Intelligence Community [Charles Dodd]
Cyberwar - an Indications and Warning Scenario [Stephen Northcutt]
Data Security; How secure are your corporate assets? [David Stelzl]
Detecting Break-ins on Unix [Hal Pomeranz]
Distributed Attack Methodology [Charles Dodd]
Foundations of Intrusion Detection [Stephen Northcutt]
Improving Network Security Through The Use of Host Rings [Geoff Halprin]
Incident Handling Step-by-Step [Stephen Northcutt]
Information Warfare: An Introduction [Charles Dodd]
Infosec for the CIO [Jeffery Stutzman]
Insecurity on the Net [David von Vistauxx]
Introduction to Firewalls [David Parter]
Introduction to incident handling [David Parter]
Introduction to Intrusion Detection Analysis [Jeffery Stutzman]
Know Thy Enemy [Charles Dodd]
Managing Security while complying with Mandates [David von Vistauxx]
Practical Security Solutions Using Smartcards [Peter Honeyman]
Secure Systems Administration, through attacking yourself [Leeland Artra]
Security in EDI Systems [David von Vistauxx]
TCP/IP Weaknesses and vulnerabilities [Peter Shipley]
The cost of complacency [Charles Dodd]
The moat and the Maginot Line [David von Vistauxx]
Various topics on network and computer security [David Parter]
Soft Skills
A Ton of Prevention = 1 Pound of Cure [Marcus M. Mottley]
Ask, Seek, Knock [Marcus M. Mottley]
Auditing - The Unexpected Ally [Geoff Halprin]
Change Your Life & Keep the Changes [Marcus M. Mottley]
Chief Executive Officer of Diddly Squat [Leeland Artra]
Crisis Communications in the Electronic Age [David von Vistauxx]
Effectively Standing Out [Leeland Artra]
Ethics at Work [Marcus M. Mottley]
Excelling in a Changing World:Take Charge of Your Career [Wanda L. Johnson]
Hiring Sysadmins [David Parter]
How to Give Great Presentations [Hal Pomeranz]
How to Increase the Half-Life of a Scientist/Engineer [Myron Ginsberg]
IT Youth Mentor Programs in Corporate America [James D. Corder]
Less Stress For Success & Progress [Marcus M. Mottley]
Make Your Time [Leeland Artra]
Management-101 [Geoff Halprin]
So You Think You're Ready For Change. [Patrick McDermott]
Surviving Office Politics [Leeland Artra]
Team Matters [Wade Younger]
The Art of Documentation [Leeland Artra]
Solaris
Administering Solaris Servers [Stephen Potter]
Advanced Solaris System Administration Topics [Peter Galvin]
Systems Management
Enterprise Infrastructures: Bootstrapping an Infrastructure [Steve Traugott]
Managing a Production Environment [Geoff Halprin]
Names and Namespace issues [David Parter]
System Administration Efficiency Techniques [William Garner]
Systems Management - The Bigger Picture [Geoff Halprin]
The Workflow of System Administration [Geoff Halprin]
Version Control & Synchronization, Tricks & Traps [Leeland Artra]
The Web
Is the Java Emperor Naked or at Best Partially Clothed? [Myron Ginsberg]
UNIX
Introduction to the Linux / Unix Command Line [Jon Lasser]
Introduction to Unix Administration [Peter Galvin]
UNI-XML, or taming the configuration beast [Andrew Winkler]
Various Topics in UNIX System Administration [Evi Nemeth]
various topics in Unix System Administration [David Parter]
VirtSec
VirtSec, Real threat or nothing to worry about [Kris Buytaert]
Virtualization
Open Source Virtualization, an Overview [Kris Buytaert]
Wireless
Fear and Wireless in the 21st Century [G. Mark Hardy]
Security and Open Wireless lans [Peter Shipley]