Whoops. Looks like I forgot to post my slides from last year’s LinuxCon Japan talk on the Linux kernel security subsystem.
Here they are:
http://namei.org/presentations/kernel-security-state-linuxconjp-2012b.pdf
I’ll be giving an update at the upcoming LinuxCon Japan in Tokyo in a couple of weeks.
The CFP for the 2013 Linux Security Summit has been announced.
The summit will be held across the 19th and 20th of September in New Orleans, co-located again with LinuxCon and Linux Plumbers. Note that presenters and attendees at LSS must be registered as LinuxCon attendees.
We’ll be following a similar format to last year, with a day of refereed presentations, followed by subsystem updates and break-out sessions on the second day. We’ll probably finish up around lunchtime on the Friday for people needing to head home that day, but check the final schedule for details once it’s published.
The CFP is open until 14th June, with speaker notifications to be posted by 21st June.
If you’ve been doing cool and interesting work in Linux security, be sure to submit a proposal!
This year’s Linux Security Summit will be co-located with LinuxCon (along with Linux Plumbers) in New Orleans, USA, on the 19th and 20th of September.
The format is expected to be similar to the 2012 summit.
A CfP will be issued soon.
Slides from the Linux Security Summit 2012 talks are now available via the schedule page.
It seems to have been a very successful event, with the move to a two-day format allowing for a day of refereed presentations, and then a day of more collaborative discussion. We’re aiming for a a similar format next year.
Thanks to everyone who made the event happen: presenters, attendees, the program committee, and of course, the great team at Linux Foundation, who made everything work flawlessly!
ETA: The slides from Matthew Garrett’s keynote on UEFI Secure Boot are now up.
Just to let folks know who are attending, we’ve added a lightning talks slot to the LSS 2012 schedule, on Friday 31st August at 2pm.
If you have any emerging topics to discuss, come along on the day and contact me to schedule a slot. We have one confirmed talk already: Dave Jones will be discussing his Trinity system call fuzzing work.
Note that this change pushes the LF Linux Security Workgroup BoF back thirty minutes.
A reminder for folks planning to submit proposals for the upcoming Linux Security Summit in San Diego — the CFP closes on the 23rd of May, a week from now.
LSS is one of eight co-located developer events at LinuxCon this year, including the Kernel Summit and Plumbers. It’s shaping up to be an epic event!
Just to let folk know — I’ll be giving a talk on the state of Linux kernel security development at LinuxCon Japan in Yokohama on June 8th. From the abstract:
In this talk, we’ll examine the current state of the Linux kernel security subsystem. Starting with a brief overview of existing features, we’ll discuss recent developments, current efforts and future directions. We’ll also discuss the evolving threat landscape, and the increasing need for mobile and cloud security. This will be a high-level technical discussion aimed at IT professionals. A good general knowledge of operating system and computer security concepts will be advantageous.
I’ll also likely be in Tokyo briefly — if any kernel security development folk there want to meet up, let me know.
The 2012 Linux Security Summit (LSS) has been announced. The CFP is open from now until the 23rd of May.
This year, the summit will be a two-day event, co-located with LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers, and the Kernel Summit. We’re planning on holding developer break-out sessions for much of the second day, and extending the length of the main talks to the more traditional 45 minute + 15 minute break format. There will still be shorter 30 minute talks, and roundtable discussions.
Check out the programs from previous years to see what kind of proposals have been previously accepted:
Send your proposals to the program committee per the announcement.
This is a pre-announcement so people can start planning travel for the year.
The Linux Security Summit for 2012 will be held on the 30th and 31st of August in San Diego, CA, USA. It will be co-located with LinuxCon North America, plumbers and the kernel summit.
More details to follow.
In support of the new kernel.org security scheme, I’ve created a new 4096 bit RSA key:
pub 4096R/FA118320 2011-10-23
Key fingerprint = 4ED7 50E6 F7F9 ACED 29DD B750 EB75 1458 FA11 8320
uid James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
I’ve published the key via the MIT key server.
I’ll continue to host the security subsystem tree on selinuxproject.org until things are fully set up on kernel.org.