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Cited as the authoritative overview of kernel hardening goals and priorities, including Cook's car-safety analogy for kernel security.
Kees Cook of Google gives a Linux Foundation talk on the Kernel Self Protection Project, which aims to harden Linux against attackers. He surveys threats, the state of available defensive technologies and a year of community progress.
“I really enjoyed this talk about KSPP's agenda” (HN, 2017)
> But… till now they’ve hardly accomplished anything compared to what PaX/Grsecurity did, e.g. they ported some mitigations while introducing more (exploitable?) bugs or incomplete implementations That doesn't seem particularly charitable. Regardless of what you think of the Linux Foundation's marketing arm, the KSPP is not a bad thing. They seem to have a very different priority to PaX/Grsecurity, with an emphasis on things that have a clear technical/political/etc path to being enabled by default. I really enjoyed this talk about KSPP's agenda: [this video]
He gave two talks, the one he referenced in the article, "The State of Kernel Self Protection Project", is here: [this video] All the available videos from the Linux Security Summit are listed here: [link]
Kees Cook's talk on the Kernel Self Protection Project.
Here is Kees Cook talk from the Linux Security Summit, "The State of Kernel Self Protection Project", he makes the same analogy to car safety in his talk: [this video] All the available videos from the Linux Security Summit are listed here: [link]
Kees Cook uses a car safety analogy for kernel security.
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