Linux Security Summit North America 2018: Full Schedule

August 27 - 28 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
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11:25am PDT

Open System Firmware Projects - Elaine Palmer, IBM Research

Three industry groups are pursuing the goal of creating open source system firmware. They seek to improve the openness, portability, security, and maintainability of boot firmware, device firmware, and system management firmware. A panel of passionate trailblazers will describe their efforts and the groups and organizations supporting them.

Moderators

Elaine Palmer

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research

Elaine Palmer is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Her current interests are in extending principles of secure boot, measured boot, and attestation to subsystems of high availability... Read More →

Speakers

Bryan Kelly

Principal Firmware Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Bryan Kelly is a Principle Firmware Engineering Manager for Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Server Infrastructure team. Bryan supports Microsoft’s cloud services by designing and developing firmware that enables hardware solutions in Microsoft’s next generation cloud platforms. During... Read More →

Nate Klein

OCP Security Project Lead, Google

Nate Klein is a hardware engineer on the Platforms Infrastructure team that designs and deploys all of the hardware that powers Google's internal and cloud services. In 6 years at Google his work includes NIC drivers and firmware, server and PCIe card design, and hardware security... Read More →

Monday August 27, 2018 11:25am - 12:05pm PDT
Room 301

Panel Discussion

Experience Level Intermediate