Invited Talk: Staying Happy in System Administration Slides

Speaker: Emily Gladstone Cole,  Operations Architect, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Emily Gladstone Cole is currently lead Operations Architect for Cloud Security Applications and Email Security back-end functionality at Cisco. Her work includes hardware lifecycle and datacenter management, automated configuration management, and storage administration, as well as mentoring and coaching junior sysadmins. Emily has spent time performing critical organizational roles as system administrator, tech support, security expert, operations specialist, and project lead. Emily specializes in UNIX security and is a co-author of a book on Solaris security for the SANS Institute. She currently holds GSEC, GCFW, and ITIL certifications and is a Certified Scrum Master.