Enigma, a USENIX Conference features current and emerging threats and defenses in the growing intersection of society and technology.
Join a diverse mix of experts and enthusiasts from industry, academia, and government for three days of presentations and open sharing of ideas.
Our goal is to foster an intelligent and informed conversation with the community and with the world, including a wide variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.
Three days of security-focused
TALKS from industry luminaries including:
- Turing Award winner Manuel Blum, Human Computation with an Application to Passwords
- Lorrie Faith Cranor, former Chief Technologist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Privacy Notice and Choice
– Big tech companies including Netflix, Facebook, Airbnb, Google and Uber provide insights into their security practices.
– Cybersecurity and journalism is addressed with talks from Tom Lowenthal, Committee to Protect Journalists and Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina and The New York Times.
(Enigma 2017 on January 30–February 1, 2017 at the Oakland Marriott in Oakland, CA. Courtesy of USENIX and YouTube)
The full agenda can be found here: TALKS
TALKS include:
- Erin Kenneally, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity Division: Beyond Warm & Fuzzy: Ethics as a Value Prop
- Ian Haken, Netflix: Secrets at Scale: Automated Bootstrapping of Secrets & Identity in the Cloud
- Hudson Thrift, Uber: Startups + Industry: How Everyone Can Win
- Chris Conley, ACLU of Northern California: Legislative Engineering: Design Privacy Laws, Don’t Just Draft Them
- Brad Hill, Facebook: Moving Account Recovery Beyond Email and the “Secret” Question
- Jack Naglieri, Airbnb: StreamAlert: A Serverless, Real-time Intrusion Detection Engine
- Manuel Blum, Carnegie Mellon University: Human Computation with an Application to Passwords
- Matt Jones, WhatsApp: How WhatsApp Reduced Spam While Launching End-to-End Encryption
- Emily Schechter, Google: Inside “MOAR TLS:” How We Think about Encouraging External HTTPS Adoption on the Web
- Dr. Ian Levy, National Cyber Security Centre, UK: National Scale Cyber Security
- Dhia Mohjoub, OpenDNS Research Labs: Behaviors and Patterns of Bulletproof and Anonymous Hosting Providers
- Attila Marosi, Sophos: IoT, a Cybercriminal’s Paradise
- Assaf Mischari, Team 8: It’s Not about the Malware: Attackers are the Weakest Link in APT
- Daniela Oliveira, University of Florida: Security for Vulnerable Populations – On the Interplay of Weapons of Influence and Life Domains in Predicting Older Adults Susceptibility to Spear-Phishing Emails
Since 1975, the USENIX Advanced Computing Systems Association has brought together the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world.
The USENIX conferences have become the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of the most advanced information on the developments of all aspects of computing systems.
USENIX supports its members’ professional and technical development through a variety of on-going activities, including:
- Member benefits
- Annual technical and system administration conferences
- Informal, specific-topic conferences such as security, internet technology, and mobile computing—as many as nine technical conferences per year
- A highly regarded tutorial program
- LISA, a Special Interest Group for system administrators
- Student programs that include stipends to attend conferences, low student member fees, a university outreach program, and best paper awards
- Online library with proceedings from each USENIX conference and the magazine, ;login:
- Participation in various ISO, IEEE and Open Group standards efforts
- USENIX supports a “Good Works” program.
- International Programs including an International Affiliate Program. USENIX also co-sponsors conferences by international technical groups.
- Two prestigious annual Awards which recognize public service and technical excellence: The Lifetime Achievement (Flame) Award and The Software Tools Users Group Award. LISA sponsors the annual LISA Outstanding Achievement Award recognizing outstanding achievement in system administration.
- Membership in the Computing Research Association
