Securing sensitive & restricted data - Dag Erling Smørgrav
Channel: EuroBSDcon
Date: 2019-10-14

Abstract:

Researchers in many scientific fields routinely work with sensitive or restricted data such as patient records, human genetic sequences, or interviews with dissidents in oppressive regimes. Keeping this data secure while retaining the ability to process and analyse it is a non-trivial problem. The University of Oslo’s TSD service is a “walled garden” environment for storing and processing this type of data. We present the architecture of TSD and describe how FreeBSD is used to control the interface between TSD and the world.

Speaker biography:

Dag-Erling Sm¯rgrav is a senior engineer at the University of Oslo, one of the developers of the TSD service and a member of the University’s CERT and information security team. He has been a FreeBSD committer since 1998 and is currently serving as FreeBSD’s Security Officer. He is also the author of OpenPAM.