Meeting Notes

Attendees:

• Preston Wiley, CERIS
• Steven Murray, HFS IT
• Josh Gillam, Internal Audit
• Baijian “Justin” Yang, CIT
• Nathan Heck, ITSP
• Mohammed Almeshekah, graduate student
• Doug Couch, ITSP
• Pascal Meunier, HUBzero
• Jeff May, MicroSemi
• Brett Sutherlin, ITSP
• Keith Watson, CERIAS

Presentation

• Keith Watson presented information on process isolation, including techniques such as chroot(), FreeBSD jails, privilege separation, sandboxing, multi-process architectures, mandatory access control, capability systems, and virtualization. He discussed how each of techniques work, the trade-offs associated with each, and the issues in managing each.

Presentation

Discussion Points:

• CERIAS Security Seminar

• The October 5th Purdue National Cybersecurity Awareness event was a success. Thanks go out to many of the GLSP members that presented at the event.

• The November 8, 2012 meeting will be story time! Bring a great security-relevant story. Pictures would be great too. Sharing is the name of this game. Everyone has a great story, so bring yours.

• The December 13, 2012 meeting will be an updated presentation on managing your security career.

Action Items:

• Tune into the Serious about Security podcast. Join us for a taping of the show.