Monday September 22, 2008 Stephen Smalley to speak at SVOSUG on Thur. 09/25/08
When: Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Mansion
(SCA07 just across the road from the Auditorium)
What: Security technologies to confine flawed and malicious software
Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm
Live Broadcast at this link through ustream on the SVOSUG web page, if you can't make the meeting in person.
NOTE: Tamarah Rockwood will have an art exhibit that will feature the OpenSolaris Community Innovations Award Entry she submitted. It is possible she will offer some cookies for the event also, but we won't hold her to her gracious offer.
You are invited to hear Stephen Smalley, of the US National Security Agency
(NSA), speak on security technologies to confine flawed and malicious
software.
Stephen was instrumental in bringing the Flux Advanced Security Kernel
(Flask) and Type Enforcement (TE) technologies to Linux through the SELinux
project. Flask is a flexible form of mandatory access control (MAC) that has
been gaining popularity since its introduction in SELinux, SEBSD, and
SEDarwin.
Stephen is now involved as a project lead on the OpenSolaris.org Flexible
Mandatory Access Control (FMAC) project that is integrating FLASK and TE
into OpenSolaris.
Stephen Smalley Bio:
Stephen Smalley is a Technical Director in the Defense Computing Research
Office of the National Information Assurance Research Laboratory of the NSA.
Mr. Smalley received a 2005 Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Fellows
award for his technical achievements within the Intelligence Community.
Prior to his work on OpenSolaris and SELinux, Mr. Smalley performed research
and development in the area of operating system security through the
development and analysis on a series of secure research operating systems.
Mr. Smalley received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics
from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
For additional info please see the following URLs:
OpenSolaris.org Flexible Mandatory Access Control Project Page:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fmac/
NSA SELinux Reference:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
Yahoo Maps to the Mansion
We may also have some pizza and sodas.