Webinar Overview
As organizations seek greater control, security, and independence in their technology choices, reliance on proprietary platforms is becoming a growing concern—especially in embedded systems and modern appliances. Open source solutions provide a way forward, ensuring flexibility, security, and long-term sustainability without external dependencies.
By leveraging the efficiency of Arm and the proven reliability of BSD, companies can build secure, high-performance embedded appliances that remain fully under their control—without sacrificing innovation or compliance.
Join us to learn how BSD and Arm empower the next generation of embedded appliances—secure, open, and free from external constraints.
In this webinar, we'll explore:
- How BSD & Arm enable secure, sovereign embedded appliances
- Why open source is the key to long-term independence
- Real-world applications of BSD in networking, industrial, and edge appliances
- Best practices for building scalable, future-proof embedded systems
Top Questions from the Session—Answered!
We’ve handpicked the most thought-provoking questions from the session—answered by our expert panel.
🗨️ Does FreeBSD provide a mechanism to ensure that the entire kernel runtime environment is checked against hashed signatures to verify that the environment and code have not been modified?
FreeBSD ensures kernel and runtime integrity using Veriexec and Secure Boot, which verify the kernel, modules, executables, and shared libraries against a trusted manifest. The open system call includes an O_VERIFY flag to block unverified files—even preventing Java apps from loading libraries not on the approved list.
🗨️ It sounds like CHERI makes Rust memory safety obsolete—is that true?
CHERI enforces memory safety in hardware. That doesn't make memory-safe languages like Rust obsolete, finding and resolving the errors during development is always better. It does mean the safety can be added to existing applications by the hardware, without having to rewrite all applications in memory safe languages.
Date: May 29, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM EST
Duration: 45 minutes.
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Meet the Hosts
Principal Solutions Architect and co-Founder of Klara Inc., Allan Jude has been on the team since the beginning. Shepherding an amazing team of developers and sysadmins, he is the technical heart of our team. A community go-to person for ZFS and open source through and through, Allan enjoys spending his time improving on ZFS, FreeBSD and making open source code better.
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Andrew Wafaa is Senior Director of Software Communities at Arm, where he leads the Open Source Office and oversees engagement with the global open-source ecosystem. He also serves on the FreeBSD Foundation board and is a longtime advocate for collaborative development and open-source innovation.
George V. Neville-Neil is a distinguished expert in networking, operating systems, and security, with a particular focus on open-source technologies. As a member of the FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors and a former member of the FreeBSD Core Team, he has significantly contributed to the development and advocacy of FreeBSD.
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