Defending Linux and Unix Systems: Hands-On Strategies Against Cybercrime and Compliance Challenges – with Demos!

Jay Beale, CEO, CTO at InGuardians, Inc.

Jay Beale has created several defensive security tools, including Bastille Linux/UNIX and the CIS Linux Scoring Tool, both of which were used widely throughout industry and government. He has served as an invited speaker at many industry and government conferences, a columnist for Information Security Magazine, SecurityPortal and SecurityFocus, and a contributor to nine books, including those in his Open Source Security Series and the “Stealing the Network” series. He has led training classes on Linux Hardening and other topics at Black Hat, CanSecWest, RSA, and IDG conferences, as well as in private corporate training. Jay is a co-founder, Chief Operating Officer and CTO of the information security consulting company InGuardians.

Joel Odom, Sr Product Manager at BeyondTrust

Joel Odom is a Senior Product Manager at BeyondTrust, responsible for BeyondTrust’s Endpoint Privilege Management products for Linux. His job is to ensure that BeyondTrust customers have the best possible solution for putting the principal of least privilege into practice, along with a rock-solid capability to audit privileged actions. He routinely works with his fellow Product Managers, Engineering Teams, and the broader security community to ensure the success of the customers using his product. Prior to joining BeyondTrust, Joel lead a security and privacy team at Salesforce, and he led a software assurance research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Joel lives in Marietta, Georgia with his wife. They have three children. When he’s not working or spending time with family, Joel enjoys flying airplanes and writing fiction.