Stephen Smalley to speak at SVOSUG on Thur. 09/25/08

Mon Sep 22 22:58:49 PDT 2008

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This meeting have moved back to the Mansion due to scheduling 
conflicts, and if you haven't seen the Mansion before, it's a 
great place, built in the Arts & Crafts style in 1915. It is one 
of the historical buildings on the Agnew Campus in Santa Clara.

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

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/

Map to the Mansion:

http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=37.393386&lon=-121.955218&zoom=16&q1=4070%20George%20Sellon%20Circle%2095054

We may also have some pizza and sodas. I would like to ask that 
people are careful around the antique mission furniture. It's no 
problem for us to eat in the mansion, but we try to keep the 
pizza boxes in the kitchen, so that the steam and oil doesn't 
discolor the furniture.;-)

-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
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