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

Jay Beale is CTO and CEO for InGuardians. He works on Kubernetes, Linux and Cloud-Native security, both as a professional threat actor and an Open Source maintainer and contributor. He's the architect of the open source Peirates attack tool for Kubernetes and Bustakube CTF Kubernetes cluster. Jay helps create and run DEF CON's Kubernetes CTF, is a member of the Kubernetes organization, and previously co-led the Kubernetes project's Security Audit Working Group. Since 2000, he has led training classes on Linux & Kubernetes security at public conferences and in private training.

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.