[Baylisa] March BayLISA meeting announcement

Tue Mar 15 15:15:27 PDT 2016

Greetings BayLISA members,

This months BayLISA looks to be a good one. This months meeting is March
17, with speakers Ryan Carretta and Dan Backman from Skyport Systems,
talking about deploying and maintaining Trusted systems and more.

See you at the meeting!

http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/228466887/

*Abstract:* How would you build a system that you could drop anywhere, that
can discover its own way out to the Internet, and automatically come under
full secure remote management -- all without on-site networking or systems
expertise?  What if this platform must also deliver a fully trusted
platform, with integrated network security controls, designed to run
anywhere — even in untrusted environments?  We will cover the story behind
the SkySecure System, developed by Skyport Systems to deliver secure
enclave environments in hostile or exposed locations.   We will discuss how
Skyport built a remotely-managed, Trusted Computing environment with full
TXT support -- including remote attestation -- and how this can be used to
effectively deploy and manage this remote trusted computing platforms. We
will also discuss the architectural principles of “zero trust” that have
informed the system architecture from the ground-up — including hardware,
software, and services.

*Speaker Bio's*:

*Ryan Carretta* works as an engineer at Skyport Systems, a  Bay-Area
security startup changing the way enterprise applications are hardened.
Before joining Skyport, Ryan previously spent time across multiple groups
in Cisco. As a Tier-3 support engineer, Ryan helped customers solve
critical and business-impacting technical problems, identifying potential
systemic product issues along the way. In another capacity, Ryan worked
with select Cisco customers as part of a team identifying and exploring
customer use-cases and doing early customer-driven product field trials.
Ryan earned a CCIE certification in 2008, back when frame-relay was still
actively being tested. Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
from Rensselaer, where he specialized in graph theory, computer networking,
and dabbled in x86 assembly hacking. In what little spare time he has, Ryan
enjoys learning about orbital mechanics and crashing rockets in Kerbal
Space Program.

*Dan Backman* currently works in Technical Marketing at Skyport systems,
where he works with customers and partners to deliver scalable and
effective Secure Enclave environments. Originally a Unix admin from the
late 1990s, Dan took a 18-year detour through the world of networking,
working at multiple network and security vendors in the Bay Area, including
over eight years at Juniper Networks.   Dan holds JNCIE-ENT (#6) and
JNCIE-SP certifications from Juniper, and has worked in large-scale
enterprise routing and MPLS deployments as well as various SDN
technologies.  When caught outside of work, Dan can usually be found
enjoying outdoor sports, such as running and biking and sailing.

http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/228466887/

*When*: Thursday, March 17, 2016 7:30 PM

*Where*: Groupon Inc
3101 Park Blvd
Palo Alto, CA