This talk will introduce some work in progress activities to enable Rust in EDK II.
The session will include use cases for Rust in EDK II, advantages of Rust when applied to firmware components, limitations in firmware environments and the types of issues that can be avoided by leveraging language based security in EDK II. Memory safety issues contributed to approximately 70% of recent security issues in software (per MS). In firmware, over 50% of reported issues in EDK II open source are related to memory safety. Future looking directions will also be shared.