Securing Your Hybrid Cloud: Four Lessons for 2021

Lucy Kerner is currently the Senior Principal Global Cybersecurity Evangelist and Strategist at Red Hat and leads security thought leadership, evangelism, and the technical and go-to-market strategy for security across the entire Red Hat portfolio globally. In addition, she helps create and deliver security related technical content to the field, customers, partners, analysts, and press and has spoken at numerous events, including security conferences, such as RSA and Hack3rCon/SecureWV, and is a Red Hat Summit Top Presenter. Lucy is also a frequent author of security articles at various online magazines , such as TechBeacon and Increment Magazine. Prior to her current role, she was a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for the North America Public Sector team at Red Hat where she presented and designed cloud solutions for a wide range of North America public sector customers. Lucy has over 17 years of professional experience as both a software and hardware development engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect,  where she worked on various aspects of cybersecurity.  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.

James Morrison joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in December 2019 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a Distinguished Technologist – Cyber Security in the office of the North America CTO.

He spent 22 years with the FBI as a Senior Computer Scientist focused on cyber security. James worked on numerous national security and criminal intrusion investigations and was active as a cyber security expert security vulnerabilities and implement solutions. He was a regional program manager for the FBI Computer Science program and Adjunct Faculty for the FBI and taught multiple classes at Quantico and internationally. He continues to serve as an Adjunct Professor of Digital Forensics at Houston Community College. James was a member of the US Air Force for 8 years as a UNIX Administrator for satellite telemetry and command and control at Falcon AFB (now Shriever AFB) and a computer communications troubleshooter at Clark AB, Republic of the Philippines.

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