Keynote: Preventing IT Firefighting with Better Infrastructure Security - Greg Marsden
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2018-09-04

Keynote: Preventing IT Firefighting with Better Infrastructure Security - Greg Marsden, Vice President, Linux Development, Oracle

The evolution of Linux and the open source model has delivered the proven performance, stability and reliability required in today’s enterprise/cloud-scale deployments. We continue to deploy in smaller independent on-prem environments, where there’s potential for security vulnerabilities to flare up. But more importantly, those CVEs that create brush fires on the on-prem prairies become towering infernos in the cloud. Case in point: Spectre and Meltdown. We’ve gone from isolated systems to large multi-tenancy environments that increase security risks. How do we build a more secure, less vulnerable infrastructure for every environment?

In his keynote, Greg will elaborate on security and how a very different OS deployment model can help developers react fast and keep their fire lines secure. 

About Greg Marsden
Greg Marsden is Vice President of Linux development at Oracle, where he encourages open source contributions that improve Linux for Oracle's Cloud services, engineered systems and software. He also oversees OS security.  Oracle's Linux kernel team has contributed more than 400,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel and includes the maintainers of Linux SCSI, XFS and hugetlbfs subsystems. Greg joined Oracle in 2000.  He is a founding member of Oracle’s Linux team. Greg holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.