Sun STARS around the globe: Glenn Brunette
Thursday Jan 18, 2007
Glenn Brunette calls New Jersey home, and is no stranger to our blog. Although we've mentioned him in a recent blog , we would like to give you a more in depth view into the world of Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer & Director, Global Systems Engineering Security Office.
How long have you been employed with Sun?
I have been employed at Sun for over 7.5 years. During this time, I have worked in Sun Professional Services and Client Services and most recently in Global Systems Engineering.
Where are you located?
I am based out of the Somerset, NJ office although I am rarely there. More often, I am on the road speaking with our customers and partners, at conferences and industry events, or working from my home office in scenic Medford Lakes, NJ . Gotta love iWork!
What is your current job role?
I am currently leading a team of security architects and ambassadors in Sun's Global Services Engineering organization whose charter is threefold. First and foremost, we work with our field organizations and our customers to develop solutions to their information security, privacy and compliance challenges. Secondly, we act as customer advocates to our internal engineering, support, services and marketing organizations bring to light customer security needs, concerns, and even solutions so that we can all work to improve the quality and security of the products and services in our portfolio. In this way, we are helping shape the directions that Sun takes with respect to security. Lastly, we work with our partners, industry organizations, standards bodies, and non-profit groups to provide technical leadership and share experience and content in the area of information security. In this capacity, we also do quite a bit of evangelism that often takes the form of publications, conference presentations, and even technical workshops.
On a historical note, I once worked for Martin Marietta and later Lockheed Martin in their Artificial Intelligence Lab. While there, I worked as a software engineer on a variety of projects focused primarily on satellite telemetry and control, combat identification and multi-sensor, multi-target data fusion.
Please highlight past or current special projects that you have worked on at Sun.
One thing about the information security profession is that no matter how far you have come, there is never really a shortage of work to do. I have had the pleasure of being involved in quite a few projects over the past year, but I would like to highlight three that I believe stand out.
1. Sun Systemic Security. Initially developed as a way to better understand and discuss how Sun's portfolio of products and services can be used to help design, build and manage more secure and compliant IT environments, Sun Systemic Security has matured into Sun's de facto security strategy.
2. Solaris Secure by Default. As a member of this team, I was able to inject customer requirements and practical experience from years of designing and building hardened operating system images to help influence the ultimate design of this project. Now, with Solaris 10 11/06, customers can select the Secure by Default profile that will significantly limit the exposed, network-accessible surface of Solaris OS systems.
3. Solaris Fuzz Test. This is the most recent project that I have completed. My initial testing focused on fuzz testing Solaris OS commands using standard input. Thirty-six different tests were conducted against every binary program delivered in OpenSolaris (more specifically Nevada build 55) and bugs have already been filed for any programs that exhibited any anomalous behavior.
On a more fun note, I was also recently able to get Solaris Trusted Extensions (based upon Nevada build 55) running within a Parallels virtual machine on my MacBook Pro. Pictures of Trusted JDS have been posted to Flickr.
Name 1 - 2 people (internal or external to Sun) that you would like to have lunch with.
Internal:
* Greg Papadopoulos, Sun Chief Technology Officer
* John Gage, Sun Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office
External:
* Michio Kaku, Theoretical physicist/Co-founder of string field theory
* Jon Stewart, Host of the Daily Show (Comedy Central)
Favorite blogs or websites?My blog is at:
Glenn Brunette's Security Weblog
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