Implementing Proactive Security, a talk with Lucy Kerner

This month I'm excited to announce that we will have a very special guest presenter, Lucy Kerner, Red Hat's Security Global Technical Evangelist and Strategist will discuss Red Hat's approach to Security and will lead a hands on lab to help us understand the impact these capabilities can provide in your environment.

EXTRA: Red Hat swag giveaway!

EXTRA EXTRA: all attendees will be eligible for a drawing for 4 ticket to the Atlanta United vs. Seattle Sounders game on Sunday 2:00 PM 7/15/18. Must be present to win!

Please note that I've moved this month's meeting to a Wednesday in order to be able to take advantage of Lucy's presence in Atlanta.

Please bring your own WiFi capable laptop to participate in the lab sessions.

Lab Overview:

In her hands-on lab and demo environment, you will have the opportunity to learn how to automate security and compliance using a combination of Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite, OpenSCAP, Red Hat Insights, and Red Hat Ansible Automation. Specifically, you will go through a series of exercises that will show you how, from a central place, you can: create a security compliant host at provisioning time, create and enforce control policies, automate security scans and remediations for various different security profiles and security controls, and do proactive security and automated risk management. The goal of this lab is to introduce you to a variety of Red Hat products that can help you with proactive security and compliance automation. We will demonstrate the power and flexibility of using either one or a combination of Red Hat products to help you with security and compliance automation.

This lab is geared towards systems administrators, cloud administrators and operators, architects, and others working on infrastructure operations management who are interested in learning how to automate security and compliance across their heterogeneous infrastructure using one or more Red Hat Products. The prerequisite for this lab include basic Linux skills gained from Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or equivalent system administration skills. Knowledge of virtualization and basic Linux scripting would also be helpful, but not required.

More on Lucy's background and qualifications:

Lucy Kerner is currently the Security Global Technical Evangelist and Strategist at Red Hat and helps drive thought leadership and the global go-to-market strategy for security across the entire Red Hat portfolio. Lucy creates and delivers security related technical content to the field, customers, and partners and has spoken at numerous internal and external events and is a 2018, 2017, and 2016 Red Hat Summit Top Presenter. Prior to her current role, she was a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for the North America Public Sector team at Red Hat. Lucy has over 15 years of professional experience as both a software and hardware development engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect. Prior to joining Red Hat, she worked at IBM as both a Mainframe microprocessor design engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect for IBM x86 servers. She has also interned at Apple, Cadence, Lockheed Martin, and MITRE, where she worked on both software and hardware development. Lucy graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Spanish.