Ansible is a leading automation tool for the system administrator, but how can you 0use it as a way of managing enterprise security postures? As defensive technologies improve their ability to identify unusual processes and binaries on their endpoints, attackers also adjust their techniques, becoming more creative in order to stay under the radar. In this session, you will learn why Ansible is a great tool for offensive and defensive security, see examples of how to use Ansible for offensive and defensive security, review examples of Ansible security integrations across the Red Hat Portfolio, and review real Red Hat customer examples of Ansible security automation implementations.

Lucy Kerner is currently the Security Global Technical Evangelist and Strategist at Red Hat and helps drive security thought leadership and the global go-to-market strategy for security across the entire Red Hat portfolio. Lucy creates and delivers security related technical content to the field, customers, and partners and has spoken at numerous internal and external events and is a 2018, 2017, and 2016 Red Hat Summit Top Presenter. Prior to her current role, she was a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for the North America Public Sector team at Red Hat. Lucy has over 15 years of professional experience as both a software and hardware development engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect. Prior to joining Red Hat, she worked at IBM as both a Mainframe microprocessor design engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect for IBM x86 servers. She has also interned at Apple, Cadence, Lockheed Martin, and MITRE, where she worked on both software and hardware development. Lucy graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Spanish.

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