Security for the Yocto Project

In the Yocto Project, the security question is is still young. Since this project was announced less than five years ago, it is only normal that discussions about security started in the last year or so. There is, of course, a specialized mailing list for the security team and it includes a large number of individuals from various companies, but their working procedure is not quite finished since it's currently in state of work in progress.

The activities that are mainly realized by the members of the security team consist of being aware of the latest and most dangerous security threats and making sure that they find the fixes, even if it includes fixing themselves and applying the changes inside Yocto's available layers.

For the time being, the most time consuming of the security activity revolves around the Poky reference system, but there are also initiatives taken by various companies to try to push a series of patches toward various BSP maintainer...