JEA—A PowerShell Toolkit to Secure a Post-Snowden World

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Invited Talk
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 2:45pm-3:30pm

Jeffrey P. Snover, Microsoft

Abstract: 

When asked what to do about corporate hacking, Ex-NSA Director Michael Hayden replied, "Man up and defend yourselves." Within a few years, Edward Snowden rocked the world by disclosing information he had gathered using his NSA administrative privileges. JEA stands for Just Enough Admin. It is a PowerShell DSC toolkit that you can use to "man up and defend yourselves" by allowing admins to perform functions without giving them admin privileges across a large set of systems.

Jeffrey P Snover, Microsoft

Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for the Windows Server & System Center Division, and is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell.

BibTeX
@conference {209079,
author = {Jeffrey P Snover},
title = {{JEA{\textemdash}A} {PowerShell} Toolkit to Secure a {Post-Snowden} World},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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