The 2015 OpenVMS Boot Camp is scheduled to begin on 28 September!

It is not too late to still sign up to attend! This is THE OpenVMS Community event of the year! Come join many of your VMS colleagues and network and plan your year together!

There are currently over 80 technical sessions, as well as the Vendor Round House on the evening of the 28th and the Banquet/VMS Reunion and Scholarship Auction on the evening of the 29th.

And for those that really want to get into the details about Security and OpenVMS there is the Pre-Conference Seminar on Sunday, 27 September. The presenters include:

Stephen Hoffman, HoffmanLabs LLC
Colin Butcher, XDelta Limited
James Preciado, James J. Preciado, LLC
Bill Highleyman, Availability Digest
Greg Guthman, Software Concepts International, Inc.
Bill Pedersen, CCSS, LLC
Eddie Orcutt, VMS Software, Inc.

The schedule for the Pre-Con is here:

Continental Breakfast/Registration
Morning
Introduction
Infrastructure
Securing hardware consoles, ILOs, MPs, Virtual Connect, Chassis and other things
Why worry about this?
Default usernames and passwords
TELNET and FTP
External authentication
Individual accountability and activity logs
Monitoring
Routers
LDAP
VLAN
Fibre
NAS/SAN
Break
VMS Security in review
Built in components
SYSUAF - Password Policy - History
ACL / ACE’s - / Identifiers / Groups etc.
Auditing / Accounting
Monitoring / OPCOM
Add-in components/Tools
Encryption
Commercial options
Open Source options
Rapid Recovery / State checking
Other
Networking:
DECnet / LAT
bjects / Proxies
TCPIP
ACME - LDAP
Proxies
IPSec
SSL
DMZ’s / VLAN’s
Lunch
Afternoon
Best practices
VMS Guide to Security
Overview of various Standards
Audits and Standard Compliance
Risk vs. Compensating Control
What makes an effective control?
The "nasty" privileges
Fine tuning and monitoring access and functions
Segregation of duties
Security policies and escalation procedures
Real world examples
Application / Open Source remediation / hardening
Smart Card Technology
Break
Infrastructure
Penetration test preparation
Futures (VSI)
Round table