[Openstack-security] develop a common State of OpenStack Security briefing

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Thu Aug 1 02:02:23 UTC 2013


Wouldn't the recent security book sprint product be the right place to 
start? It might be a bit much to boil that down to a slide deck, but it 
has all of the information we are discussing as far as what knobs to turn.


On 07/31/2013 03:35 PM, Thomas Biege wrote:
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> Am 30.07.2013 18:31, schrieb Bryan D. Payne:
>> I think that it's useful to talk about the "glue components" (e.g.,
>> the message queue, database, etc) and current thinking on best
>> practices there.  Also, on best practices for deployment and
>> keeping everything up to date.  Finally, I think it's important to
>> highlight both the good things that we have today, but also the
>> gaps / areas where improvement is needed.
> in general such a list of open topics would be helpful to see what
> idle hands could do.
>
> Best,
> Thomas
>
>> -bryan
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>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Clark, Robert Graham
>> <robert.clark at hp.com <mailto:robert.clark at hp.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I’d certainly be happy to throw some time into this.____
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>> Things I’d expect to see in the deck:____
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>> __·        __Holistic overview, general security posture____
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>> __·        __Service overview, perhaps restricted to core IaaS
>> services or wider____
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>> __o   __Covers secure configuration____
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>> __o   __Especially new options, improvements____
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>> __o   __Security Bugs____
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>> __o   __Design issues____
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>> __·        __Review of recent security issues and OSSNs____
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>> __·        __?____
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>> *From:*Nicolae Paladi [mailto:n.paladi at gmail.com
>> <mailto:n.paladi at gmail.com>] *Sent:* 30 July 2013 07:25 *To:* Bryan
>> D. Payne *Cc:* openstack-security at lists.openstack.org
>> <mailto:openstack-security at lists.openstack.org> *Subject:* Re:
>> [Openstack-security] develop a common State of OpenStack Security
>> briefing____
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>> Great initiative, I'd be glad to "test drive" such a presentation
>> at our next OpenStack meetup in September;____
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>> Just my 2 cents: would be good to have a slide or two on the state
>> of VPN support in Neutron, as well as what the capabilities of
>> security groups are____
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>> /nicolae____
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>> On 29 July 2013 23:56, Bryan D. Payne <bdpayne at acm.org
>> <mailto:bdpayne at acm.org>> wrote:____
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>> This sounds very valuable.  What kinds of information would you
>> guys like to see in this?____
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>> Also, I'm thinking the slides could be setup in a way that suits
>> either 30 min or 60 min presentation lengths.  Does that seem
>> reasonable?____
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>> -bryan____
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>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Brian Schott
>> <brian.schott at nimbisservices.com
>> <mailto:brian.schott at nimbisservices.com>> wrote:____
>>
>> I was thinking that it would be great if we could collectively
>> have a common "State of OpenStack Security" that Stackers could
>> give at local OpenStack MeetUps or other venues.  This topic comes
>> up all of the time and a good executive overview briefing would
>> raise the awareness of what OpenStack is doing in this space.
>> ____
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>> Is there interest in OSSG in pulling together such a briefing?
>> ____
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>> Brian____
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>> Brian Schott, CTO____
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>> Nimbis Services, Inc.____
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>> brian.schott at nimbisservices.com
>> <mailto:brian.schott at nimbisservices.com>____
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