[BBLISA-announce] PICC Opening Keynote Announced! Bill Cheswick, Security Guru! East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ

[Tom Limoncelli]

The PICC committee is excited to announce our opening keynote speaker:

Bill Cheswick
Security guru and co-author of "Firewalls and Internet Security"

Topic: Rethinking Passwords
"We've known that passwords have been inadequate for over thirty
years and they have only gotten worse. Can we escape the varying
'eye-of-newt' password rules that plague everyone's online lives?
Can we get grandma safely to the other side of the authentication
street?  I will review some of the many research ideas that have
been proposed, and offer some suggestions toward getting us out of
this thicket."

DINNER will be provided to all attendees on Friday at 6pm; Bill's talk will begin after dinner (8pm).

Register for PICC here: http://www.picconf.org/registration/#event
        (NOTE: Tutorial seats are running out!  Register NOW!)

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East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ
   "the most talked about, community-run, sysadmin conference of 2012"

Register now and avoid the rush!   http://picconf.org   Space is limited!

Registration is open for the 2012 LOPSA PICC conference, May 11-12, 2012 at
the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.  Sysadmins and IT workers
from Maine to Virginia are expected to attend the most talked about,
community-run, sysadmin conference of 2012!  We're excited to announce
our slate of speakers and world-class tutorials for 2012.  Complete
details at http://picconf.org

Conference summary:

FRIDAY is all about world-class training:

-- Daytime: Long-format tutorials by world-class instructors: PowerShell,
       Puppet, Amazon Web Services, WordPress, DNSSEC, IPv6 and much,
       much more!  http://www.picconf.org/picc12-training-classes
-- DINNER:  Dinner and reception for all attendees.
-- EVENING: OPENING KEYNOTE (Bill Cheswick, "Rethinking Passwords")
-- Late: "Birds of a Feather" sessions.

SATURDAY adds invited speakers on a wide variety of topics:

-- Tutorials and invite talks such as:
-- Learn how Google does backups, how Etsy manages DevOps, and how
       Mozilla has radically revamped their software release process.
-- Windows users will love the talks on MS Small Business Server
       and tutorials on PowerShell (requested back for a 2nd year).
-- Linux users will love the talks about high performance computing,
       the Ganeti free virtualization project, and advanced
       monitoring techniques.
-- DevOps will be impressed by speakers from "the big three"
       configuration management vendors: CFEngine, Chef, and Puppet.
-- Cloud computing training from speakers with "from the trenches" experience.
   (Speaker list: http://www.picconf.org/picc-12-talkspapers )
-- CLOSING KEYNOTE: Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security"

LAST YEAR'S attendees said:

-- "The talks were all technical; no marketing hype, no sales people!"
-- "Small enough to have a community feeling, big enough to draw big name speakers."
-- "Next year I'm sending my entire team!"

REGISTER soon.  Your boss will approve!

Priced right!  Being a non-profit, community-based conference the
registration fee is what you'd pay just to travel to the big conferences.
We bring world-class speakers to you; saving you money and travel time.
Registration packages from $334 to $621 (with extreme discounts for
students and unemployed).  Save up to $125 by registering before Friday,
March 30, 2012!

For more information and to register visit http://picconf.org

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PICC (The Professional IT Community Conference) (http://picconf.org) is a production of The New Jersey chapter (http://lopsanj.org) of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (http://lopsa.org).  This is our 3rd annual conference and will be held May 11-12, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.