Fed50 Voting Open: Jeff Blank for "Disruptor of the Year"

Shawn Wells shawn at redhat.com
Tue Oct 6 15:14:08 UTC 2015


Our fellow OpenSCAP-er, Jeff Blank, has been nominated for Fed50 "Disruptor of the Year" in recognition for his C&A work.

Want to see Jeff win as bad as I do? You can help in literally 2 clicks. Voting ends 2-NOV.

http://fedscoop.com/events/fedscoop50/#disruptor-of-the-year

Why Jeff?  He's the co-founder of the SCAP Security Guide and has been working tirelessly to make C&A less expensive, faster, and do so using open source. Jeff has also been a great ally of OpenSCAP as demonstrated at the Red Hat Summit...

https://dgshow.org/2015/10/98-not-that-nsa/

Personally, I've co-presented with Jeff for the past 2 years at Red Hat Summit. You can find our decks here:
- http://blog-shawndwells.rhcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-06-25-Summit-Security-Compliance-Made-Easier.pdf
- http://blog-shawndwells.rhcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2014-04-17-SCAP-Summit-2.pdf

Jeff also open sourced the development of Common Criteria protection profiles, which can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/commoncriteria

To achieve this open source awesomeness, Jeff worked with DoD Legal to attain broad permissions for DoD/IC/Civ/Integrators to contribute back to open source. This alone is worth a "Disruptor" award!



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