David Brown

about

David Brown is a member of the Linaro IoT and Embedded Group (LITE), as well as the Security Working Group, and has worked on the Linux kernel, with a focus on security for a number of years. Recently, he has been focusing on security as it relates to IoT embedded devices, including focusing on secure booting, and secure network communications. He served as the Security Architect for the Zephyr Project for 2 years, continuing to be a part of the Zephyr security team, and is a maintainer for the MCUboot secure bootloader.

Posts

• Security and the Zephyr Project

  Thursday, November 26, 2020

  David Brown is currently the Security Architect for the Zephyr Project. In May of 2020, the project received a report from the NCC group outlining several dozen vulnerabilities found in the Zephyr codebase. This blog explains the process and measures taken to resolve these vulnerabilities and to ensure the codebase is secure.