The details of this security event are already well-documented (see the original security notification in Red Hat’s Portal or this 3-minute video providing a high-level overview). So, what can your IT organization do to be better prepared for the next security event? Here are four practical actions you can take now to improve your Security Lifecycle Program.

Read the rest of “Four practical steps to improve your Security Lifecycle Program”

I do miss my team and other friends at UConn.  UConn gave me great opportunity, both to gain strong technical skills, and to experience leadership, both formally as management, and informally as a mentor and vocal innovator.  I place great value in those first 13 years of my professional career, and I look forward to achieving similar gains in my next 13 years!

I recently had the opportunity to join Gordon Haff ( Red Hat’s Cloud Evangelist ) and Ellen Newlands ( Red Hat’s Security and Identity Product Management) for a discussion about Identity Management and Cryptography.  Check out what we had to say (audio or text) on Gordon’s Cloudy Chat Podcast .

OK, so I’m no poet – but thankfully that is not a requirement at Red Hat! This week I took RH300, and today I passed both EX200 (RHCSA) and EX300 (RHCE). And so now, waiting for my flight out of DC, I celebrate:

Straightforward advice — plan, plan, plan, then do.

Qualcomm reduced hardware deployment significantly and simplified management with the RHEV tool suite — significant operational savings.

Qualcomm made extensive use of the virt-v2v tool, but had to modify it (yay Open Source!) to make it cluster (RHCS) aware.  Modifications are shipping with RHEV 6.3.