[CALUG] June 9th Meeting Reminder - Dave Quigley SELinux

[Chuck Frain]

Just a reminder that this Wednesday, June 9th is CALug's monthly
meeting. We will be welcoming Dave Quigley and his talk on SELinux as
described here. He will be going on at 7pm.

Feel free to show up from 6:30-7pm for pizza and soda provided by Praxis
Engineering. 

Visit http://calug.org for location and further details.

See you Wednesday!

Bio:

David Quigley is a Computer Systems Researcher for the National Information
Assurance Research Lab at the NSA. David is leading the design and
implementation efforts to provide labeled-nfs support for SELinux. He has had
prior experience contributing to the open source community through maintaining
the unionfs 1.0 codebase and contributing to various other projects. David has
presented at conferences such as the Ottawa Linux Symposium, the StorageSS
workshop, and several local Linux User Group meetings where he has given
presentations relating to storage, file systems, and security.

Abstract:

Over a decade ago researchers at the National Information Assurance
Research Lab at the NSA identified a need for flexible mandatory
access controls to help provide a solid foundation for secure systems.
This resulted in the development of the FLASK architecture, which has
seen implementation in a number of operating systems. The most
prominent implementation of FLASK is in the form of SELinux. Since the
early days of SELinux adoption much work as been done to improve the
utility and usability of SELinux. These enhancement have turned
SELinux from a prototype research implementation into a robust access
control mechanism that is used by a variety of customers world wide.

This talk is a from the ground up journey through SELinux,. It starts
with why do we need this technology and then moves through where to
obtain it, how it works, and how to identify and solve problems
associated with SELinux. In addition to these basics the talk also
covers slightly more advanced topics such as how to construct policy
for new applications and how to address customizations particular to
your deployments.
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Chuck Frain 
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