Author: Gustavo A. R. Silva

Gustavo A. R. Silva works full-time as an Upstream Linux Kernel Engineer focused on hardening and proactive security. He has spent the past several years fixing all sorts of bugs and hardening the Linux kernel. His work is supported by The Linux Foundation and Alpha-Omega. He’s a member of the Kernel Self-Protection Project and a regular speaker at Kernel Recipes. He has also presented at Linux Security Summit, LinuxCon, Lund LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers, Everything Open, and SSTIC as an invited speaker.

Conferences/Kernel Recipes/Kernel Self-Protection Project/Presentations

My talk at Kernel Recipes 2024

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

I gave a presentation at Kernel Recipes in September this year. 🇨🇵🗣️🐧 My slides are already up, and as always, I hope peo...

Linux Kernel Bugs/Mentoring/Presentations

ONE simple and rewarding way to contribute to the Linux Kernel: Fix Coverity issues

Posted on September 28, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

Introduction Motivated by the series of events I describe below, I decided to write this short blog post about how fixing Coverity issues can open the door to y...

Conferences/Kernel Recipes/Kernel Self-Protection Project/Linux Kernel Hardening

Back to Paris to present at Kernel Recipes 2024

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

I’m really happy to share that I will be traveling to Paris to speak at Kernel Recipes in the week after the Open Source Summit Europe. ✈️&#...