Jay Beale

About Jay Beale

Jay Beale is a principal security consultant and CEO/CTO for InGuardians. He is the architect of multiple open source projects, including the Peirates attack tool for Kubernetes (in Kali Linux), the Bustakube CTF Kubernetes cluster, and Bastille Linux. Jay created and leads the Kubernetes CTF at DEF CON and previously co-led the Kubernetes project\'s Security Audit Working Group. He’s co-written eight books and given many public talks at Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA, CanSecWest, Blue Hat, ToorCon, DerbyCon, WWHF, HushCon and others. He teaches the highly-rated Black Hat class, “Abusing and Protecting Kubernetes, Linux, and Containers.” He has served on the review board of the O’Reilly Security Conference, the board of Mitre’s CVE-related Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language, and been a member of the HoneyNet project. He’s briefed both Congress and the White House.

Experience

1. Training Instructor and Course Author

   Black Hat

   Jul 2002 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   I\'ve taught classes on Linux Security and more recently Kubernetes and Containers at Black Hat since 2001/2002. I teach shorter versions at other conferences as well as in internal corporate trainings.

Education

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

  BS, Mathematics and Physics

  1993 — 1998

• University of Maryland

  PhD Program, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science

  1998 — 1999

Skills

• Vulnerability Management
• Encryption
• Ids
• Application Security
• Ruby on Rails
• Vpn
• Writing
• Cryptography
• Firewalls
• Security Audits
• Web Application Security
• Linux Lockdown
• Ips
• Linux
• Security Architecture Design
• Pci Dss
• Information Assurance
• Technical Training
• Network Security
• Vulnerability Scanning
• Open Source
• Computer Security
• Penetration Testing
• Security
• Cissp
• Programming
• Perl
• Risk Assessment
• Internet Security
• Computer Forensics
• Information Security Management
• Python
• Professional Mentoring
• Strategic Leadership
• Training
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (Pci Dss)
• Unix
• Information Security
• Data Security