Protecting Your System from the Scum of the Universe - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

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Channel: The Linux Foundation · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Protecting Your System from the Scum of the Universe - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

Linux based systems have a plethora of security related mechanisms: DM-Crypt, DM-Verity, Secure Boot, the new TEE sub-system, FScrypt and IMA are just a few examples. This talk will describe these the various systems and provide a practical walk through of how to mix and match these mechanisms and design them into a Linux based embedded system in order to strengthen the system resilience to various nefarious attacks, whether the system discussed is a mobile phone, a tablet, a network attached DVR, a router or an IOT hub in a way that makes maximum use of the sometime limited hardware resources of such systems.

About Gilad Ben-Yossef
Gilad Ben-Yossef is a principal software engineer working at Arm on upstream kernel security sub-system at large and Arm CryptCell engine support in particular. Gilad is the co-author of O’Reilly’s “Building Embedded Linux Systems” 2nd edition and presented at LinuxWorld, Embedded Linux Conference Europe and the Ottawa Linux Symposium.

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