Money talks :-)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=820
Crispin Cowan, the Linux security expert behind StackGard, the Immunix
Linux distro and AppArmor, has joined the Windows security team. In a
blog post last week, Microsoft’s Michael Howard, author of Writing
Secure Code, wrote:
For those of you who don’t know Crispin, Crispin is responsible for a
number of very well respected Linux-based security technologies such as
StackGuard, the Immunix Linux distro, SubDomain and AppArmor. I’ve known
Crispin for many years, and have nothing but the utmost respect for the
guy. He’s well published, wicked smart, a non-zealot and brutally
pragmatic. In my opinion, AppArmor is shining example of his pragmatism,
it’s simple and it works. What excites me the most is he’ll bring a
different perspective to the Windows team, and I’m a big believer in
stirring the pot!
Cowan, CTO and co-founder of Immunix, will certainly be able to stir the
pot–his home page still sports the Linux penguin in the URL.
Howard adds that Crispin will join the team that worked on User Account
Control. Given the criticism that UAC (most popular UAC posts on ZDNet)
has received hopefully Crispin can inject a little more pragmatism into
the effort.
On his home page, Cowan outlines his stellar resume. He describes his
research interest as the following:
My research interests are in pragmatic systems research: giving systems
new capabilities and performance, and doing it well enough that you can
read mail on it. My personal workstation runs my research systems.
For the last four years, my primary interest has been survivability :
how to make existing systems better able to survive security attacks.
With the invaluable help of my team, we have produced the Immunix OS
version of Linux, featuring the StackGuard C compiler which emits
programs resistant to buffer overflow attacks.
Prior to that, I did work in system specialization for performance,
distributed programming languages, and computer architecture. I am
interested in enhancing performance in all of these areas by using
concurrency and parallelism.
Simply put, Microsoft notched a big security win by landing Cowan. Let’s
see where things go from here.
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