Homeland Security Courses

Making Containers Safer - Security Features and New Developments

Explore container security, recent kernel developments, and future challenges in making unprivileged containers safer and more usable.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hacking BLE Fitness Trackers: Security Vulnerabilities and Attack Techniques

Explore BLE hacking techniques for fitness trackers, including reverse engineering, information gathering, and potential attacks. Learn about vulnerabilities in smart devices.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Open Policy Agent (OPA) for Security and Authorization

Explore Open Policy Agent (OPA), a versatile policy engine for fine-grained, context-aware enforcement across the stack. Learn its applications in microservices, Kubernetes, and API authorization.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Running Untrusted Code with gVisor - Container Security and Sandboxing

Explore gVisor, an open-source sandbox runtime for enhanced container security. Learn its architecture, use cases, and advantages over other approaches, with a demo of a minimal serverless platform using gVisor and Kubernetes.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to CNCF Security Special Interest Group

Explore CNCF Security SIG's history, achievements, and ongoing efforts in cloud-native security. Learn about authentication, authorization, auditing, and policy enforcement in this informative presentation.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Falco - Container Runtime Security

Explore Falco for container runtime security, learn to detect system call anomalies with eBPF, and monitor Kubernetes API server behavior. Gain insights on writing custom rules and contributing to this CNCF project.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Improving Security while Reducing Toil with DevSecOps

Learn DevSecOps techniques to integrate security into development, reduce manual tasks, and foster a security-first culture across teams. Gain insights on tools and practices for efficient, compliant software delivery.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MDS, Fallout, Zombieland, and Linux - Security Vulnerabilities in Modern Processors

Explore recent security vulnerabilities in processors and their impact on Linux, with insights on mitigation strategies and the importance of collaborative efforts in cybersecurity.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Securing the Cloud and Training Your Dragons - Trends and Tactics for Enterprise Cloud Security

Explore enterprise multi-cloud security challenges and solutions with Comcast's VP of Security. Learn strategies for "training your dragons" to secure infrastructure in complex cloud environments.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Relationship Therapy: Using Data and Automation to Keep Developers and Security Teams Happy

Strategies for improving developer-security team relationships through data and automation, focusing on building trust and balancing innovation with risk mitigation in software development.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Overview of the Linux Kernel Security Subsystem

Explore Linux kernel security: history, components, and community involvement. Learn about access control, capabilities, auditing, and security modules from a Microsoft expert.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux Kernel Security Contributions by ANSSI

Explore ANSSI's contributions to Linux kernel security, including Landlock LSM and CLIP Linux. Learn about the benefits of open-source collaboration for government agencies and enterprises.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Security Module Stacks That Don't Fall Over

Explore security module stacking pitfalls, configuration conflicts, and best practices for new modules, with emphasis on networking challenges and infrastructure usage.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Protected Execution Facility: Enhancing Security for Virtual Machines

Explore IBM's Protected Execution Facility for enhanced security in cloud computing. Learn about secure virtual machines, architecture modifications, and safeguards against compromised components in Power Architecture servers.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Overview and Recent Developments: Seccomp and Small Linux Security Modules

Explore Linux kernel security: seccomp syscall filtering, Yama ptrace-restriction LSM, and LoadPin kernel-file-reading restriction LSM. Learn history, usage, and recent developments from Google engineer Kees Cook.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video