Overview and Recent Developments: AppArmor - John Johansen, Canonical
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 27/10/2018

Overview and Recent Developments: AppArmor - John Johansen, Canonical 

This presentation will provide an overview of the AppArmor security project; its security model, use, recent developments and current direction. In addition it will discuss the current open challenges the project has.

About John Johansen
John Johansen works for Canonical doing kernel related work for the Ubuntu security team.

John Johansen began working with open source software in the late 80s and began playing with Linux in 93. He completed a masters in mathematics at the University of Waterloo and the began working for Immunix doing compiler hardening, and then AppArmor. After Immunix was acquired by Novell he began working on Suse Linux and in 2009 he joined Canonical as a kernel engineer. He is currently employed by Canonical as a security engineer with a primary focus on supporting the AppArmor project.