Individual Speaker Profile

• OpenSCAP + SCAP Security Guide: Scaling security compliance with automation
• OpenControl: Dynamically creating security paperwork to support industry regulations, such as PCI and FedRAMP
• OpenShift: Designing OpenShift+Kubernetes deployments for use in classified systems
• OpenStack: Architecting and Operating the first OpenStack-based FedRAMP High cloud. Co-authoring the OpenStack Security Guide with OpenStack Foundation.

Shawn works as the Chief Security Technologist for Red Hat's Public Sector organization, focused on scoping, founding, and management of open source security technologies relevant to military computing initiatives. Wider known projects include co-authoring the first edition OpenStack Security Guide with the OpenStack Foundation, co-founding the OpenSCAP and SCAP Security Guide project, and leading Red Hat's OpenControl tooling and content. Prior to this role Shawn was Red Hat's Technical Director for Intelligence Programs; a significant project was running Secret and Top Secret workloads on the same KVM-based hypervisor, and getting that through U.S. Government accreditation (a first in the US Military).

• OpenStack Compliance Speed and Agility: Yes, It's Possible.

• [Red Hat Summit 2016] End-to-end OpenSCAP for automated compliance, co-presented with Jeff Blank, Technical Director within NSA Information Assurance
  
• [DevOpsDays Washington DC] Consumer to Collaborator: Re-Imaging the Governments role in Open Source
• [FedInsider] Securing Intelligence in an Open Hybrid Cloud, co-Presented with Jennifer Kron, Deputy Chief Information Officer, U.S. Intelligence Community
• [AFCEA West 2017] Building Continuous Integration & Deployment CICD Pipelines in Partnership with Security Teams

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