Making the World a Safer Place with Nerves

Join us for a presentation by Duncan Sparrell about cybersecurity and the opportunities/challenges for Nerves and the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem in general. In May 2021 President Biden issued Presidential Executive Order(EO) 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. The talk will begin with some cybersecurity basics, covering the environment, trends, and events that led to the EO. It will discuss why the Elixir/Erlang ecosystem, and OTP’s “let it fail” in particular, is well suited for cybersecurity. OTP was an originally an acronym for “Open Telcom Platform”, but now stands for “One Tough Platform”. With increased focus on the safety impact of cyber-physical systems in the Internet of Things (IoT), there are large opportunities for Nerves as well as challenges. I’ll discuss how the EO will use the power of the federal purse to transform the software industry and the opportunities and challenges to our ecosystem. Much of the talk will focus on Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) – it’s recent history, why SBOMs are important, what the EO means to SBOMs for Nerves projects, the hex/rebar tools to create SBOMs, and what attendees can (and should) do in their Nerves projects.

We'll also have social time, as well as time after the presentation to get help or chat about your own project.

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The Nerves Project defines a new way to build embedded systems using Elixir.