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Length: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Level: Introductory

Novell Audit collects data on network-wide security, system and application events and manages it within a single data structure. This session will show how to use Novell Audit to capture events and pass static, dynamic, and nested groups to the exteNd Director Group Management System application. From there, the same information can then be shared with Microsoft Active Directory, IBM Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Exchange. Presentations will include a demonstration of the proof-of-concept shown to an actual customer, and explain the benefits achieved by this customized solution.

Session Benefits:

• Understand how to connect Novell Audit and exteNd Director.
• See how Novell solutions can effectively manage non-Novell applications.
• Preview the new functionality of exteNd Director 5.

Type: Business Case Study

Kevin James
Prototype Systems Developer
Novell, Inc.

Freddy Kaiser
Technical Director, Enterprise Solutions
Novell, Inc.

Length: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Level: Advanced

Novell Audit collects data on network-wide security, system, and application events, and manages it within a single data structure. Developers can also instrument in-house applications, and push custom events to a centralized logging server for report analysis and additional functionality. During this session, attendees will learn how to instrument custom application to Novell Audit.

Session Benefits:

• Understand more about instrumenting custom applications.
• Learn how to instrument an application to Novell Audit.
• Discover the flexibility of the log event for Novell Audit.

Type: Developer Lecture

Jason Arrington
Software Engineer II
Novell, Inc.

Nile Thayne
Lead Engineer
Novell, Inc.

Rick Meredith
Software Engineer
Novell, Inc.

Length: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Level: Advanced

Novell Audit collects data on network-wide security, system, and application events, and manages it within a single data structure. Novell Audit can also share information with any custom application dashboard or view. Attendees will see how the Novell Audit rich interface support enables developers to create customized dashboards or link into existing management systems.

Session Benefits:

• Learn how to expose Novell Audit events to management systems.
• Discover easy ways to create Novell Audit dashboards.
• Understand methods for linking Novell Audit with popular management products.

Type: Developer Lecture

Rick Meredith
Software Engineer
Novell, Inc.

Jaime Brimhall
Software Engineer
Novell, Inc.

Nile Thayne
Lead Engineer
Novell, Inc.

Length: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Level: Introductory

Novell Audit collects data on network-wide security, system and application events and manages it within a single data structure. Novell Audit is a secure logging and auditing product that helps reduce organizational liability and risk by ensuring compliance with governmental regulations and business-driven security policies. During this session, participants will see an overview of the latest Novell Audit features, and experience future features and capabilities.

Session Benefits:

• Understand how Novell Audit works.
• See how Novell Audit can help organizations improve security and reporting.
• Catch a glimpse of future features and capabilities.

Type: Introductions, Overviews & Futures

Jeff Allen
Product Marketing Manager
Novell, Inc.

Mark Ward
Product Line Manager
Novell, Inc.

Length: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Level: Introductory

Novell Audit collects data on network-wide security, system and application events and manages it within a single data structure. This session details the design and architecture required to support common international privacy regulations using Novell Audit. An environment will be set up in this session to show how Novell Audit can help detect and prevent access and changes to key customer, patient, employee, and/or citizen information. This session will reveal a business and technical approach for detecting and preventing these issues.

Session Benefits:

• See an overview of relative privacy regulations.
• Learn a basic business approach to working with privacy regulations.
• Learn how to implement a technological application of the business approach above.

Type: Technical Tutorial

Mark Ward
Product Line Manager
Novell, Inc.