[Tech-board-discuss] Standing for 2022 TAB election

[Tech-board-discuss] Standing for 2022 TAB election

[Kees Cook]

Hello,

I'm volunteering again to stand for election to the Technical Advisory
Board.

My primary concern for the kernel is security. I'm a member of the
security@kernel.org response team, lead the Kernel Self-Protection
Project[1], maintain[2] for the kernel hardening, seccomp, and pstore
trees, and am a co-maintainer of the exec and binfmt tree. As a result, I
frequently work kernel-wide across many subsystems (or many architectures)
when helping land various security defenses. This cross-maintainer work is
a unique social and technical challenge, and the topic of "security" is
a similarly wide and unique challenge. I'd like to continue to represent
both of these concerns on the TAB.

In addition, I also bring several "downstream" perspectives on how the
kernel is consumed, from those of a general-purpose distro (having worked
on Ubuntu's security team) to those of special-purpose device vendors
(having worked with Chrome OS, Google Cloud, and Android).

Notable over my last 2 years on the TAB was helping review hundreds
of patches from UMN and showing that the incident[3] was one of
misunderstanding and lack of education rather than of malice. I helped
with the final report, and coordinated the creation of the base Researcher
Guideline documentation[4]. I've also continued to support[5] the TAB's
online election process.

Thank you for your consideration,

-Kees

[1] https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Project
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=f%3A%22Kees+Cook%22+s%3A%22GIT+PULL%22
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook/
[4] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/researcher-guidelines.html
[5] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/identity-canonicalizer

-- 
Kees Cook