Description:

How can you run an untrusted python script safely? A sandbox is a security mechanism for separating running programs. Python being a very popular scripting language we needs such mechanisms. This talk will cover

• the dynamic nature of Python
• interesting security challenges
• basic tactics to overcome the security challenges
• resource exhaustion
• running unexpected services
• disabling/quitting/erroring out of the sandbox

as we work through building a Python Sandbox from scratch.

Prerequisites:

Basic understanding of Python.

Content URLs:

link to presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwvqpialcCedQjZtc2VDdVphWTg/view?usp=sharing

Note: The presentation may go through some changes.

Speaker Info:

I am a undergraduate student at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-H). This will be my first time as a speaker at a Python conference and I am hoping for some encouraging feedback from your side.