Name: The State and Direction of LSM Stacking - Casey Schaufler, The Smack Project
Start: 2025-06-27T09:05:00-0600
End: 2025-06-27T09:50:00-0600

June 26 - 27 | Denver, Colorado
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Friday June 27, 2025 9:05am - 9:50am MDT

Room BBB 3G+3H

The Linux Security Module (LSM) infrastructure has a limited ability to support multiple concurrent security policies. Expanding this capability to eventually encompass supporting arbitrary combination of modules is an ongoing activity. This talk will cover the current state of LSM stacking and the pending proposed changes. It will include a discussion of the limitations imposed when multiple modules have expectation on networking resources, how audit filtering is impacted and the implications for integrity. Opportunities for development of supporting features in parallel with the infrastructure changes will be presented.

Speakers

Casey Schaufler

Founder, The Smack Project

Casey Schaufler founded the Smack project in 2006 after an especially heated debate with the SELinux developers on a topic now long forgotten. He has been developing secure operating systems since the late 1980's, starting the system that became Trusted Solaris and architecting Trusted... Read More →

Friday June 27, 2025 9:05am - 9:50am MDT
Room BBB 3G+3H

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Casey Schaufler

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