Speaker Details

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).