In-Person Event

Ansible Security Automation Workshop + Bowling Happy Hour

July 14, 202212:30 PM - 5:30 PMThe Colony, Texas

Overview

Who is this workshop best for?

The workshop is intended as an introductory course for Ansible® Security Automation designed for people who want to learn how Ansible can be leveraged in security environments. The intended audience is technical professionals in automation [part of a cross-functional team or supporting other vertical teams in their company], security operations and vulnerability management. There is no previous knowledge about Ansible required to access this workshop, though it certainly helps.

Description

Ansible Automation Platform is a simple yet powerful IT automation engine for application deployment, configuration management, and orchestration that you can learn quickly. 

Get started with Ansible Automation Platform security automation by implementing automation for three security use cases: 

  • Orchestrating firewalls.
  • IDS and SIEM: Investigating suspicious traffic on a web server.
  • Threat hunting: Analyzing unusual denied accesses on a firewall and remediation of a SQL injection.

After a brief introduction, we’ll guide you through basic concepts and show you how to use Ansible Automation Platform security automation in combination with existing third-party security solutions.

Agenda

  • Lunch: 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM CT
  • Workshop: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
  • Bowling + Happy Hour: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
 
If you have questions about the event, please email lleibel@redhat.com
 

Agenda

Introduction & settle-in  
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. -- MORNING SESSIONS
  • Introduction to Ansible
  • Running Ad-hoc Commands
  • Writing Your First Playbook
  • Using Variables
  • Conditionals, Handlers and Loops
  • Building Templates
  • Roles
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. -- LUNCH  
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. -- AFTERNOON SESSIONS
  • Introduction to Tower
  • Inventories
  • Credentials
  • Ad-Hoc commands
  • Projects
  • Job Templates
  • Using the Survey Feature
  • Role Based Access Control
  • Workflows

Event Details


Location: 
Andretti Karting and Games
5752 Grandscape Blvd
The Colony, Texas  75056


Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022

Time: 12:30 PM - 5:30 PM CT

If you have any questions please send us an email.

*In-person event terms and conditions

Masks are encouraged but optional. In addition to having no present symptoms of COVID-19, Red Hat expects all attendees attending the event to be one or more of the following: fully vaccinated against COVID-19, recently recovered from COVID-19 or have a negative COVID-19 test result within 24 hours prior to attending the event. 

Hear from the experts

Matt Smith

Matt Smith
Managing Architect, Northeast Regional Office of Technology, Red Hat Inc.
As Managing Architect, Matt runs the Northeast Regional Office of Technology, leading teams of I.T. strategists and technical specialists to help Red Hat customers achieve their key business transformation initiatives through open source architectures and technologies. He regularly advises Fortune 100 enterprises across a wide range of industries, on topics such as Digital Transformation, IT Modernization, and the changing landscape of Security and Risk. Matt joined Red Hat in 2013, bringing two decades of IT experience ranging from development and system administration to management, strategy, and architecture. Matt has knowledge in many areas of technology, with a particular interest in Identity & Access Management and Managing the Risk of Change, and greatly enjoys bringing Open Source solutions to the Enterprise.
 
Dan Walsh
Senior Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat
Daniel Walsh has worked in the computer security field for over 40 years. Dan is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He joined Red Hat in August 2001. Dan is the lead architect of the Red Hat Container Runtime Engineering team. Dan has been working on container technologies for 17 years. Dan focusess on the CRI-O Container Runtime for Kubernetes, Buildah for building container images, Podman for running and managing containers, containers/storage and containers/image. He has led the SELinux project, concentrating on the application space and policy development. Dan helped develop sVirt, Secure Virtualization as well as the SELinux Sandbox. Dan has a BA in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross and a MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Twitter: rhatdan Blog: danwalsh.livejournal.com Email: dwalsh@redhat.com
 
Andrea Hall
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Red Hat
Andrea Hall is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for Red Hat’s North American Public Sector.  Before her career at Red Hat, she worked as a cyber intelligence analyst and provided digital forensic services to law enforcement officers. She has an MA in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University and a degree in Social Work. Andrea is currently focused on leading security and compliance initiatives to benefit the public sector and regulated industry.
 
Kirsten Newcomer
Director, Security Product Management, Hybrid Platforms, Red Hat
Kirsten leads the hybrid platform security product management team. Kirsten works closely with Red Hat’s many security professionals across the Red Hat portfolio of enterprise-ready open source offerings. Kirsten is a diversified software management professional with 20+ years of experience in security, application development and infrastructure solutions. Prior to joining Red Hat, Kirsten provided strategic direction for Black Duck’s open source security and governance solutions.
 
Uzi Ailon
Vice President, DevSecOps Solutions, CyberArk
With over 25 years of experience in the software engineering industry, 15 of them focused on customers and sales, Uzi bring about vast experience in all aspects of a software development lifecycle, security and devOps, together with a strong understanding of fortune 500 companies’ business objectives.
Uzi, who leads a global team of technical and sales specialists, in the field of security and devOps,  speaks regularly at devOps and security events, shares his overview on the market trends, technology, security and how to build secure and efficient processes in global devOps organizations.
 
Phil King
Technical Solution Specialist, Intel
Phil King is a 21-year Intel veteran and has almost 30 years of experience in Enterprise IT, ranging from PC migration / installation to solution engineering for very large enterprise deployments.  More recently, Phil has made security his area of focus, highlighting things like confidential computing and platform trust.
Phil’s certifications and credentials include Intel Product Assurance and Security White Belt & Yellow Belt (HW & SW), Intel Solutions Pro – Cloud Fundamentals, Intel Partner Pro - AI Foundations, CompTIA Network+ Certification. Older certs include Novell CNE, Cisco CCNA/CCDA, and Slackware Linux administration.
 
Dave Sirrine
Principle Solution Architect, Red Hat
Dave is a Principal Solution Architect with experience across sundry industries and leads the internal Red Hat Global Security Community of Practice where he collaborates closely with many of Red Hat’s security professionals. Dave also brings a broad base of knowledge across multiple technology disciplines developed over 25 years in the IT industry. 
 

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