The next HackFormers meeting will be held on Friday, April 3rd, 2015 and is free and open to all.
Seating is limited, so please Register!
Speaker: Matt Tesauro
OWASP WTE Project Lead, OWASP OpenStack Security Project Lead
Date: Friday, April 3, 2015
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. with introductions beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Microsoft Technology Center at Quarry Oaks 2.
Address: 10900 Stonelake Blvd. Suite 225. Austin, TX 78759
Abstract:
The current DevOps movement provides several key methodologies and tenants to keep IT operations running in a sustainable fashion. Depending on your perspective, DevOps may be the latest IT fad or a revolution. In looking at DevOps, what does its key tenets offer for IT operations and how do those tenants relate to those of the Bible. Can you take the same approach, working left to right, in small batches to your spiritual life? How about stopping the production line when tests fail? Shared goals and shared pain between ops and development? Continual experimentation? Can repetition and practice lead to mastery? Hopefully this talk will provide an new perspective on how to optimize your IT and spiritual lives.
Speaker Bio:
Matt Tesauro is the Application Security Lead Engineer at Pearson and was previously the Senior Product Security Engineer at Rackspace. He is also an Adjunct Professor for the University of Texas Computer Science department teaching the next generation of CS students about Application Security. Matt is broadly experienced information security professional of 15 years specializing in application and cloud security. He has also presented and provided trainings at various international industry events including DHS Software Assurance Workshop, OpenStack Summit, SANS AppSec Summit, AppSec US, EU and LATAM. His work has included security consulting, penetration testing, threat modeling, code reviews, training and teaching at Texas A&M University. He is a former board member of the OWASP Foundation and project lead for OWASP WTE project, a collection of application security testing tools. He holds two degrees from A&M University and several security and Linux certifications.
Kevin Johnson is CEO and Principal Security Consultant at Secure Ideas. Kevin came to security from a development and system administration background. He has many years of experience performing security services for Fortune 100 companies, and in his spare time contributes to a large number of open source security projects. Kevin founded and leads the development on B.A.S.E. (the Basic Analysis and Security Engine) project. The BASE project is the most popular web interface for the Snort intrusion detection system. Kevin is a well respected instructor who has taught several courses for SANS in both the Incident Handling and Hacker Techniques class and the Web Application Security class. He has presented to many organizations, including Infragard, ISACA, ISSA and the University of Florida.