CppCon 2018: Closing Panel: Spectre

Closing Panel: Spectre

This panel will consist of three experts from across the industry who have been working on and responding to Spectre, a new class of information leak vulnerability in modern CPUs and software. It will cover any and all questions the audience has about this new class of vulnerabilities, how they work, what it means for you, and what you can do about them.

Moderator

Matt Godbolt

Development Engineer, Aquatic Capital Management, LLC

Matt Godbolt is the creator of the Compiler Explorer website. He is passionate about writing efficient code. He has previously worked at a trading firm, on mobile apps at Google, run his own C++ tools company and spent more than a decade making console games. When he's not hacking... Read More →

Speakers

Chandler Carruth

Software Engineer, Google

Chandler Carruth leads the Clang team at Google, building better diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase, and is... Read More →

Jon Masters

Chief Arm Architect, Red Hat

Jon Masters is a Computer Architect specializing in high performance microarchitecture at Red Hat, where he is Chief Arm Architect, and works on cache coherent shared virtual memory workload acceleration, among many other topics. He also co-created the technical mitigation team for... Read More →

Matt Miller

Microsoft

Matt Miller is a Partner Security Software Engineer working as part of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). In this role, Matt drives strategy and engineering related to proactive vulnerability defense across Microsoft's products and services. Prior to joining Microsoft... Read More →

Friday September 28, 2018 16:45 - 18:00
Breckenridge Hall (1st Floor)

• Secure Programming