Individual Speaker Profile

• Rackspace - From 2006-12-18 (Current)

I want to help people build reliable, efficient, and secure OpenStack clouds.

• OpenStack
• Information Security
• Linux
• Python
• Ansible

Major Hayden builds OpenStack clouds as a Principal Architect at Rackspace.

Major is a core developer in the OpenStack-Ansible project with a focus on improving information security in OpenStack deployments.  He holds multiple Red Hat and Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) certifications and has written extensively about securing virtualized Linux environments.

Outside of OpenStack, Major has contributed to several open source projects including dracut, systemd, and Ansible. Within the Fedora Linux community, Major serves on the Fedora Security Team and Fedora Server Working Group. Major enjoys writing on his personal blog, major.io, and he talks about technical topics on Twitter as @majorhayden.

• Securing OpenStack Clouds and Beyond with Ansible
• Grow Your Community: Inspire an Impostor
• The Open Open Open Cloud
• OpenStack Security Team Update

• Holistic Security for OpenStack Clouds

• Automated Security Hardening with OpenStack-Ansible

• Taming the Technical Talk
• The New Normal: Managing the constant stream of new vulnerabilities
• When flexibility met simplicity: The friendship of OpenStack and Ansible Red Hat Summit 2016
• Automated Security Hardening with OpenStack-Ansible OpenStack Summit Austin
• OpenStack Summit Barcelona: Holistic Security for OpenStack Clouds

• English