#79 [Workshop] Protecting the batcave against the Joker: Fedora infra hardening workshop
Closed: Talk Scheduled Opened by misc.

= Questions/Requested Information

  1. What’s your proposal? Be specific about what you want to accomplish, how this helps the project and the attendees. Review [link to CFP] for details on what we’re looking for.

Fedora infrastructure is is currently managed from a server called batcave01. While heavily guarded, I have a strong suspicion that we can and need to do more to protect against attackers that could get access by posing as apprentices. I may have several ideas already, but I am not gonna spoil the participants ahead. So the planning would be:
- show the architecture
- show where and how people could/would find issue
- show how to do some non disruptive offline audit
- discuss some hardening measure that could be used
- explain how to make patches and harden the server

Depending on the size of the crowd, we might turn into smaller group dedicated into doing 1 set of hardening, or do something else. We may also refer at past issues to see how we could have mitigated them rather than patching them, because bugs will always happen even with the best.

End goal is to get people either looking and finding issues, and/or adding some hardening.

  1. Who needs to be in the room for this to succeed? List each person by Name and FAS ID as Name (FAS ID)
  2. misc
  3. nirik || puiterjwik || smooge

  4. Is this a …

  5. Workshop of 2 hours

So the plan is to start with a talk, and then discuss/harden the server by providing patches, looking for problems, etc. To be honest, I suspect the plan may change depending on how much people come, because in Flock 2016, I already tried a workshop with a small amount of people and I had to improvise a talk since too much people came to see the workshop. So this may happen again.

Also, I will make my best to make it non bat-hetic.

  1. Anything else we need to know? This could be room setup, A/V needs, etc. If you have private concerns, please email them to flock-admin@fedoraproject.org.

Ideally, I may need a Bat-hyscaphe since we may be going deep down in infra, but just having access to the Bat-hroom should be ok. As a bat-ckup plan, enough Nitrous oxide might be needed if people do not find me funny for a joke bat-tle, but usually this is not a problem.

More seriously, just a video projector for slides might help.

  1. Who are you?
  2. Name: Jack Napi^W^W Michael Scherer
  3. FAS ID: misc
  4. IRC Nick, if not FAS ID:

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