talk at ngee ann poly

Talk given to 1st and 2nd year students of IT in Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Transcript

1. Operating Systems in Everyday Life – Trends and Challenges Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com Red Hat Asia Pacific January 4, 2016, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
2. Operating System Trends and Challenges
3. Operating System Security
4. Passwords, Buffer Overflows, and Rootkits
5. Why Do I Care?
6. Why Do I Care? wiifm?
7. Software is Eating Everything
8. More accurately, Open Source Software is eating everything
9. Secure Coding will be eating everything else
10. Secure Coding will be eating everything else … and secure software delivered via containers
11. Secure Coding will be eating everything else … and secure software delivered via containers … and sent to the “cloud”
12. Learn all about encryption: a) GPG (or PGP) - https://gnupg.org/ b) Tails https://tails.boum.org/ c) OTR https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ d) Let's Encrypt https://letsencrypt.org/
13. Things that you should do NOW: a) Set up a git account (gitlab, github etc) and onto IRC b) Post your work there – code, drawings, how-tos c) Participate in coding/hacking competitions d) Social Coding: https://www.socialcoding4good.org e) get certified – either by taking industry recognized certs (eg: https://redhat.com/en/service/certification) f) Run Open Source software everywhere – Fedora is a great starting point – https://getfedora.org/
14. Thank you Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com @harishpillay
15. One more thing
16. “I believe in a #‎SmartNation with an open source society and immense opportunities; where everyone can share, participate and co-create solutions to enrich and improve quality of life for ourselves and our fellow Singaporeans.” Foreign Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan Geekcamp.SG, September 26, 2015 https://www.facebook.com/Vivian.Balakrishnan.Sg/posts/10153017297841207
17. Thank you Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com @harishpillay
18. Tails Demo