Securing the Linux Kernel - Features and Attack Vectors

Securing the Linux Kernel - Features and Attack Vectors  

Seminare	2 SWS / 5 ECTS
Veranstalter:	Fabian Franzen
Zeit und Ort:	Preliminary meeting on Tuesday, January 28th, 11 a.m. in room 01.08.033: slides Block Course   Appointments for the seminar at AISEC Room Turing: ·         Initial meeting and assignment of topics: 03.03.2020 - time: 10-11 a.m. - slides ·         Deregistration of the seminar: Until 20.04.2020 ·         Submission date for table of content: 04.05.2020 ·         Discussion table of content with participants (individual appointments):                06.05.2020 – 20.05.2020 ·         Submission date for seminar reports: 17.06.2020 ·         Submission date for presentation slides: 24.06.2020 ·         Block Course - Presentation days: 01.07.2020 – 02.07.2020 & 08.07.2020 –           09.07.2020
Beginn:	2020-03-03

This course is organized and held by Fraunhofer AISEC!

Organizers:

• Barbora Hrdá +49 89 32299 86 167
• Monika Huber +49 89 32299 86 148

Topics

• (Security Issues in) Hardware Virtualization
• Privilege Escalation
• Isolation with Namespaces & Cgroups
• Sandboxing with seccomp
• Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
• AppArmor
• Full Disk Encryption
• Integrity Management Architecture using Secure Boot as an example
• Spectre
• Meltdown
• ...

Students are strongly encouraged to suggest their own topics!

Prerequisites

• IN0009 Grundlagen: Betriebssysteme und Systemsoftware
• IN0004 Einführung in die Rechnerarchitektur
• strongly suggested: IN2209 IT Sicherheit

Course goals

• Understand Linux Kernel security mechanisms and attack vectors
• Preparing and writing a scientific paper in LaTeX (english, 8-10 pages LNCS)
• Presenting a scientific topic (german/english) 30 minutes + 15 minutes discussion