Title: Instrumenting Code for Better Security Awareness

Presenter: Mike Hill, CERIS

Mike talked about some specific findings from an audit for his National Plant Diagnostic Network database, and how he addressed them. Mike's solution involved gathering more reliable information about activities and errors that were occurring. This allowed him to build reports that provide a better overall picture of attacks and unknown error conditions.

Slides: File:Hill090514.pdf

Title: Status Reporting for Operating Systems and Applications

Presenter: Keith Watson, CERIAS

Keith talked about status reporting in operating systems and applications. This talk focused on a variety of status report systems in some UNIX-based operating systems and how to write your own. Keith provided code examples in Ruby for sending status information to several online services.

Slides: File:Watson090514.pdf