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Vincent DEFFONTAINES - Free Software and Security
Skills
Administration GNU/Linux, UNIX and BSD systems
Networking TCP/IP, VPN, IP filtering
Services
| IP Filtering | NuFW, Netfilter (Linux 2.4/2.6), ipfilter (OpenBSD), ipfwadm (FreeBSD) |
| Kernel hardening | Grsecurity (PaX), Lids |
| VPN | OpenSWAN |
| Web | Apache 1.3/2.0/2.2 |
| Email | Exim, Postfix, Qmail, Spamassassin |
| DNS | Bind |
| Webmail | Imp, SquirrelMail |
| SQL | MySQL, PostgreSQL |
| Proxy | Squid, Apache, Privoxy, SquidGuard |
| LDAP | OpenLDAP, Single Sign On |
| Monitoring | Nagios, Cricket, Mrtg, RRDTools |
| Network Intrusion Detection | Snort, Prelude |
Languages
| Perl, Shell, C, HTML, PHP |
Personal Project
| Multiprotocol Authentication Secure Gateway : NuFW |
| NuFW is a layer 3 authenticating filter, or Not a Usermode
Firewall, or Now User Filtering Works |
| This very innovative project was started in 2001, and was then
named GnuFW. |
| NuFW was awarded in 2005 by les Trophées du Libre, an international
Free Software contest, in the Security category. |
| Co-founder of the project, co-developper. |
Teaching
| LearningTree teacher for Linux and Apache courses |
| Teacher for several sessions about several free software domains: |
| Apache, Squid, GNU/Linux systems, Security, etc. |
Rsearch Project
Member of the Eficaas research project : Extending Firewalling
Infrastructure Capabilities and Aggregating Authentication Systems
Publications
Misc (french magazine specialized in IT security) - july-august 2005
"Advanced Apache security" article, about Apache modules mod_security and mod_dosevasive
Misc (french magazine specialized in IT security) - march-april 2005
"Introduction à NuFW" article (in french) - Thanks to the Diamond
editions and to Frédéric Raynal for letting me publish this article
here.
3 consecutive Articles :
- June : Introduction to NuFW
- July-August : Userland interactions with Netfilter, from NuFW point of view
- September : how glib deals with threads
Official translator of the Apache 2 core online documentation.
References
jan 2004 : created INL
Created INL together with Éric Leblond
INL is an SME which provides services for "Libre" Software and
Security, and develops NuFW.
Apache 2.0 contributor
Submitted a patch to mod_headers in Apache 2.0, part of the
official distribution since 2.0.50 version.
Wrote mod_auth_nufw, an Apache 2.2/2.0/1.3 module for transparent authentication (single sign on)
sept 2002 to sept 2003 : Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Network and System Administration
Network and System Monitoring architecture and setup
Mail, Web, Proxy, DNS services administration and architecture
Network Security : Firewalls, architecture review, emails headers filtering, spam filter
sept 2000 to aug 2002 : Alcôve, Paris
System administration - GNU/Linux, BSD, Unix systems security
firewalls on Linux 2.2 (ipchains), 2.4 (netfilter), OpenBSD, FreeBSD
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Architecture and setup (IPSEC).
Security audits.
IBM's Linux Security session - end 2001
Teacher for network and system security on GNU/Linux
Education
ICAM Engineer (Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers) - Lille
Languages
| English | Fluent |
| German | Conversationnal |
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