Linux Security Summit 2014
Description
The Linux Security Summit (LSS) is a technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users. Its primary aim is to foster community efforts in analyzing and solving Linux security challenges.
The format of the summit will be:
- Refereed presentations
- Subsystem updates
- Breakout development sessions
Venue
The Linux Security Summit for 2014 will be held across 18 and 19 August in Chicago, USA. It will be co-located with LinuxCon, along with the Kernel Summit and other events.
Call for Participation
The CFP is now open, and will close on 14th June. Accepted speakers will be notified by 21st of June.
The program committee currently seeks proposals for:
- Refereed Presentations: 45 minutes in length, including at least 10 minutes of discussion. Papers are encouraged.
- Discussion Topics: 30 minutes in length.
Topic areas include, but are not limited to:
- System hardening
- Access control
- Cryptography
- Integrity control
- Hardware security
- Networking
- Storage
- Virtualization
- Desktop
- Tools
- Management
- Case studies
- Emerging technologies, threats & techniques
Proposals should be submitted in plain text via email to the program
committee at: lss-pc (_at_) ext.namei.org
Abstracts should be approximately 150 words in total.
Program Committee
The Linux Security Summit for 2014 is organized by:
- James Morris, Oracle
- Serge Hallyn, Canonical
- Paul Moore, Red Hat
- Stephen Smalley, NSA
- Joshua Brindle, Quark Security
- Herbert Xu, Red Hat
- John Johansen, Canonical
- Kees Cook, Google
- Casey Schaufler, Intel
- Mimi Zohar, IBM
The program committee may be contacted as a group via email: lss-pc (_at_) ext.namei.org