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Photos: AusCERT 2008

The AusCERT 2008 security conference takes place in the Gold Coast this week. If you couldn't make it, here's what you're missing.
By Munir Kotadia, Contributor
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The Royal Pines Resort, where the AusCERT conference has been held for the past few years.

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Scott Charney, vice president of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group, kicking off the conference with his keynote.

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The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) celebrated its 15th birthday this year.

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From this viewpoint you can see most of the AusCERT conference floor.

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Here's a view of the rest of the show floor.

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Roger Grimes, security architect at Microsoft, giving his presentation on why UAC will not stop malware. Watch out for the video interviews with Roger.

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In the show tradition, most of the booths at AusCERT had freebies. NetIQ was giving away multicoloured bouncy balls.

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AusCERT delegates eating lunch were "policed" by these suspicious looking guys.

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AusCERT delegates eating their lunch.

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This, believe it or not, is Peter Watson — chief security advisor for Microsoft Australia. The company's theme this year was "Microsoft security rocks", which goes some way to explaining his outfit. (Sorry Peter, we had to publish it!)

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The McAfee booth.

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Brian Snow used to be the chief scientist for the US National Security Agency (NSA). Look out for our video interview with him.

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No show is complete without the booth babes. These ladies were from the BlueCoat stand.

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