Guest lecture at Okayama University

I talked for more than two hours (135 mins to be precise) about upstream Linux kernel hardening at Okayama University this afternoon. 🐧👨🏽‍💻🎙

I just uploaded my slides here: https://embeddedor.com/blog/presentations/#Enhancing_spatial_safety_Better_array-bounds_checking_in_C_and_Linux_Okayama_University_%E2%80%93Guest_talk

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I really enjoyed the session. The students were amazing. They were well prepared and asked a lot of questions. 👏🏼👏🏼

Gustavo A. R. Silva
Gustavo A. R. Silva works full-time as an upstream Linux kernel engineer focused on hardening and proactive security. For nearly a decade, he has worked on fixing a wide variety of bugs and strengthening the Linux kernel's security. His work is supported by The Linux Foundation and the Alpha-Omega project. He is one of the central contributors to the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project, and a regular speaker at Kernel Recipes and Open Source Summit. He has also presented at Linux Security Summit, Lund LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers Conference, Everything Open, Intl Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC), The University of Adelaide, and Okayama University. Additionally, he has been an invited speaker at the Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l'Information et des Communications (SSTIC).

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