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Linux Security Summit 2016 Schedule Published

The schedule for the 2016 Linux Security Summit is now published!

The keynote speaker for this year’s event is Julia Lawall.  Julia is a research scientist at Inria, the developer of Coccinelle, and the Linux Kernel coordinator for the Outreachy project.

Refereed presentations include:

See the schedule for the full list of talks.

Also included are updates from Linux kernel security subsystem maintainers, and snacks.

The event this year is co-located with LinuxCon North America in Toronto, and will be held on the 25th and 26th of August.  Standalone registration for the Linux Security Summit is $100 USD: click here to register.

You can also follow updates and news for the event via Twitter:  @LinuxSecSummit
See you there!

Linux Security Summit 2015 Schedule Published

The schedule for the 2015 Linux Security Summit is now published!

The refereed talks are:

  • CC3: An Identity Attested Linux Security Supervisor Architecture – Greg Wettstein, IDfusion
  • SELinux in Android Lollipop and Android M – Stephen Smalley, NSA
  • Linux Incident Response – Mike Scutt and Tim Stiller, Rapid7
  • Assembling Secure OS Images – Elena Reshetova, Intel
  • Linux and Mobile Device Encryption – Paul Lawrence and Mike Halcrow, Google
  • Security Framework for Constraining Application Privileges – Lukasz Wojciechowski, Samsung
  • IMA/EVM: Real Applications for Embedded Networking Systems – Petko Manolov, Konsulko Group, and Mark Baushke, Juniper Networks
  • Ioctl Command Whitelisting in SELinux – Jeffrey Vander Stoep, Google
  • IMA/EVM on Android Device – Dmitry Kasatkin, Huawei Technologies

There will be several discussion sessions:

  • Core Infrastructure Initiative – Emily Ratliff, Linux Foundation
  • Linux Security Module Stacking Next Steps – Casey Schaufler, Intel
  • Discussion: Rethinking Audit – Paul Moore, Red Hat

Also featured are brief updates on kernel security subsystems, including SELinux, Smack, AppArmor, Integrity, Capabilities, and Seccomp.

The keynote speaker will be Konstantin Ryabitsev, sysadmin for kernel.org.  Check out his Reddit AMA!

See the schedule for full details, and any updates.

This year’s summit will take place on the 20th and 21st of August, in Seattle, USA, as a LinuxCon co-located event.  As such, all Linux Security Summit attendees must be registered for LinuxCon. Attendees are welcome to attend the Weds 19th August reception.  ETA: standalone LSS registration is available.

Hope to see you there!

Linux Security Summit 2015 CFP

The CFP for the 2015 Linux Security Summit (LSS) is now open: see here.

Proposals are due by June 5th, and accepted speaker notifications will go out by June 12th.

LSS 2015 will be held over 20-21 August, in Seattle, WA, USA.

Last year’s event went really well, and we’ll follow a similar format over two days again this year.  We’re co-located again with LinuxCon, and a host of other events including Linux Plumbers, CloudOpen, KVM Forum, and ContainerCon.  We’ve been upgraded to an LF managed event this year, which means we’ll get food.

All LSS attendees, including speakers, must be registered attendees of LinuxCon.   The first round of early registration ends May 29th.

We’d like to cast our net as wide as possible in terms of presentations, so please share this info with anyone you know who’s been doing interesting Linux security development or implementation work recently.

Linux Security Summit 2014 Schedule Published

The schedule for the 2014 Linux Security Summit (LSS2014) is now published.

The event will be held over two days (18th & 19th August), starting with James Bottomley as the keynote speaker.  The keynote will be followed by referred talks, group discussions, kernel security subsystem updates, and break-out sessions.

The refereed talks are:

  • Verified Component Firmware – Kees Cook, Google
  • Protecting the Android TCB with SELinux – Stephen Smalley, NSA
  • Tizen, Security and the Internet of Things – Casey Schaufler, Intel
  • Capsicum on Linux – David Drysdale, Google
  • Quantifying and Reducing the Kernel Attack Surface –  Anil Kurmus, IBM
  • Extending the Linux Integrity Subsystem for TCB Protection – David Safford & Mimi Zohar, IBM
  • Application Confinement with User Namespaces – Serge Hallyn & Stéphane Graber, Canonical

Discussion session topics include Trusted Kernel Lock-down Patch Series, led by Kees Cook; and EXT4 Encryption, led by Michael Halcrow & Ted Ts’o.   There’ll be kernel security subsystem updates from the SELinux, AppArmor, Smack, and Integrity maintainers.  The break-out sessions are open format and a good opportunity to collaborate face-to-face on outstanding or emerging issues.

See the schedule for more details.

LSS2014 is open to all registered attendees of LinuxCon.  Note that discounted registration is available until the 18th of July (end of this week).

See you in Chicago!

Linux Security Summit 2014 (Chicago) -– Call for Participation

The CFP for the 2014 Linux Security Summit is announced.

LSS 2014 will be co-located with LinuxCon North America in Chicago, on the 18th and 19th of August.  We’ll also be co-located with the Kernel Summit this year.

Note that, as always, we’re looking for participation from the general Linux community — not just kernel people, and not just developers.  We’re interested in hearing about feedback from users, and discussing what kinds of security problems we need to be addressing into the future.

This year, we’re looking for discussion topics as well as paper presentations, so if you have anything interesting to talk about, send in a proposal.

The CFP closes on 6th June 21st June.

Linux Security Summit 2013 – Schedule Published!

The schedule for this year’s Linux Security Summit in New Orleans is now published!

The keynote will be presented by Ted Ts’o.

Refereed talks include:

  • Embedded Linux Security (David Safford, IBM)
  • Extending AppArmor Mediation into the Userspace (John Johansen, Canonical)
  • Multiple Concurrent Security Models? Really? (Casey Schaufler, Intel)
  • Linux Kernel ASLR (Kees Cook, Google)
  • The AppArmor Labeling Model (John Johansen, Canonical)

It looks like there’s been quite a lot happening in AppArmor.  There’ll also be general project updates for SELinux, Smack, AppArmor and the Integrity subsystem, as well as a discussion on kernel coding anti-patterns led by Kees Cook.

There’ll be break-out sessions on the second day, details of which will be posted on the schedule as they’re known.  If you’ll be at LSS (or LinuxCon/Plumbers generally) and would like to schedule a break-out session, contact the program committee per the details at the wiki page.

See everyone on the 19th and 20th of September in New Orleans!

Slides from my Security Subsystem Overview at LinuxCon Japan 2012

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.

Linux Security Summit 2013 (New Orleans) – Call for Participation

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!

Linux Security Summit 2012 – Schedule Published

The schedule for LSS 2012 is now published. See also the email announcement.

As previously mentioned, LSS this year will be a two-day event, co-located with LinuxCon.

On Day 1, we’re privileged to have a keynote by Matthew Garrett. He’s one of the best speakers in the community, and I believe he’ll be discussing secure boot.

Following the keynote, we have eight refereed presentations on new and interesting Linux security development topics.

On Day 2, we’ll have kernel security subsystem updates from maintainers, followed by an afternoon of breakout sessions. The breakout sessions are for deeper dives into specific areas, and may include development discussions and hack sessions. An BoF is planned to discuss an LF Security Workgroup, and attendees may propose more sessions in the leadup to the conference by emailing the program committee.

Thanks to all of the committee members for reviewing the proposals and helping to organize the summit — it’s shaping up as an interesting and productive event!

Kernel Security Talk at LinuxCon Japan

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.