CSNF Capture the Flag Wrap Up - Sponsored by World Wide Technology, Oracle, and Splunk - ONUG

CSNF Capture the Flag Wrap Up – Sponsored by World Wide Technology, Oracle, and Splunk

Spring 2024

The CSNF Capture the Flag wrap-up session will provide participants with the the opportunity to weigh in on the advantages of utilizing CSNF when analyzing complex multicloud security threats. The Q&A session with key members of the ONUG CSNF project team will allow participants to ask questions and get feedback from the CSNF Project Team based on their experience of using it over the 2 day Capture the Flag event. The session will close with the awarding of prizes to the CSNF CTF winners and a discussion on the future direction for CSNF.

Participants in the CSNF Capture The Flag Event should attend this wrap-up session, in which:

Winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded
Participants will have the opportunity to weigh in on the advantages of utilizing CSNF when analyzing complex multicloud security threats
There will be a Q&A session with key members of the ONUG CSNF project team
The CSNF project team will discuss future directions for CSNF in 2024

Speakers:

Michael Thomas Clark

Michael is a veteran technologist with over 30 years’ experience in large enterprise computing. He began his career as a network and server engineer at Bausch & Lomb in the early days of distributed computing before moving on to Fidelity Investments and progressively larger systems management roles.

He finished up his time at Fidelity in Enterprise Architecture, where he focused on various platform infrastructure initiatives, including leading the effort to develop a unified compute platform strategy for the firm. Michael has spent the last decade engaged in an array of global professional services activities, working with private-equity firms and startups in healthcare data management and network security.

As a Core Organizer for the annual DevOpsDays Boston conference since 2017, Michael also co-founded “Boston DevOps Network, Inc,” a non-profit aimed at promoting DevOps learning and community-building in the Greater Boston area. Since 2015, he has worked with what is now the ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group, where he is currently co-Chair with Forrest Bennett of FedEx. In 2019, Michael worked with Nick Lippis to launch ONUG’s first set of conference tracks focused on DevOps practices.

Today, he continues to consult on Cloud infrastructure and security projects and recently launched a new podcast series: “The Wages of Cybercrime.”

Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer is a Field CISO with Oracle. In this role, he works with customers to help them build innovative cloud security architectures and strategies that standardize and accelerate the secure adoption of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Before returning to Oracle, he was a Security Partner Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services. In this role, he works closely with various strategic security partners to build cloud-optimized architecture and develop strategies with business development teams. Before this, he was a Security Architect in the AWS Professional Services organization, where he helped large enterprises adopt AWS.

Dennis Faucher

Dennis Faucher is a Principal Systems Engineer at World Wide Technology. When he is not helping customers move their IT initiatives forward faster and with lower risk, he is raising chickens and robots.

Speakers:

Michael Thomas Clark

Technology Industry & IT Consulting Executive

Renaissance Tech & Media

Josh Hammer

Field Chief Security Architect

Oracle