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Live Q&A - Hardening Linux for Embedded Systems
Aljoscha Lautenbach - Watch Now
Hi Thomas!
I'm glad it was helpful! I am not personally aware of a book on Linux hardening, but that doesn't mean that there is no such book. The difficulty with hardening is that it is such a broad topic and you can approach it from so many different angles. Apart from reading the official Linux documentation, my main recommendation would be to learn the attacking techniques, so that you know what to look out for. Until I learned how to exploit a misconfigured cron job, I never would have looked for it. And learning the basics of penetration testing is quite fun!
10:10:45 From BobF to Everyone: Is there significant overheads, in terms of (bloated) kernel code size specifically in the context of hardening embedded systems? 10:12:40 From Kouakou to Everyone: Thanks for the talk vendors are selling secure elements (ics) that they highly recommend to pass the coming regulations. where does the technics you present stand according to these solutions 10:16:50 From BobF to Everyone: Any comments with regard to what Microsoft (embedded Windows) is doing in securing embedded systems? 10:18:28 From BobF to Everyone: Thought I'd throw it out (the query) !! 10:19:36 From Jacob Beningo to Everyone: It’s a good question! Thanks for asking it! 10:25:13 From Lyden Smith to Everyone: thank you!
Hi Aljoscha,
thank you very much for your talk. I even wasn't aware of linPEAS, maybe as I'm focusing most of the time on developing a solution. On the other side, most systems are guarded by the company's firewalls, so security falls short within the dev cycle, while we are fighting with different distributions and kernel versions to implement something. So I learned already a lot from your talk. Do you have any recommendation/resource on hardening e.g. a book?
Thanks a lot!
Thomas