Jay Beale

Jay Beale is Chief Executive Officer and Principal Security Consultant for InGuardians. He works on Kubernetes, Linux, and Cloud-Native security, both as a professional threat actor and an Open Source contributor. He’s the architect of the Pirates attack tool for Kubernetes and the Bustakube CTF Kubernetes cluster. He created Bastille Linux, a lockdown tool that introduced a vital security-training component, and the Center for Internet Security’s Linux scoring tool, both used by hundreds of thousands. Since 2000, he has led training classes on Linux & Kubernetes security at the Black Hat, RSA, CanSecWest, and IDG conferences, as well as in private training.

As an author and series editor, Jay has contributed to nine books, including those in the “Jay Beale’s Open Source Security Series,” which included an international bestseller. As a speaker, Jay has given more than one hundred public talks and chaired two conferences.