Constant Gardner: Root Protector
Currently there are many ways for malicious computer users to gain escalated privileges on a system by making use of an authorized program in a way that was never intended. The potential vectors of attack are prohibitively numerous and not all producers of software consider potential vulnerabilities when publishing their product. Constant Gardener will intercept programs that are requesting escalated privileges and validate their request before allowing the privilege escalation to continue.
Bio:
Samuel Lightbody graduated with his B.S. in Computer Science while also working for the University.
Specialties: Linux system administration, virtualization, HA infrastructure architecture design, capacity planning, automation, database administration and optimization (MSSQL, MySQL, Infobright, Redshift, Aurora), Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, RDS, Redshift, VPC, S3, ELB, EMR,EB), Docker, the Hadoop ecosystem (Cloudera, EMR, and native)
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