Cyber Defense Initiative^® 2016

Using Vagrant to Create Repeatable and Sharable Research Environments

• Shaun McCullough
• Wednesday, December 14th, 8:15pm - 8:55pm

This presentation will introduce the Vagrant software application and will discuss how it can be used by Information Security (InfoSec) professionals to provide their audience with an infrastructure environment to accompany their research. InfoSec professionals conducting research or publishing write-ups can provide opportunities for their audience to replicate and walk through the research themselves in their own environment. Vagrant is a popular DevOps tool for providing portable and repeatable production environments for application developers, and can be used to provide richer research environments for InfoSec professionals. The presentation will investigate how Vagrant works, the pros and cons of the technology and how it is typically used. The presentation will demonstrate how it can be used to create repeatable environments highlighting different features of Vagrant.

Speaker Bio: Shaun McCullough graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Computer Engineering. He has worked for the Federal Government for 15 years in software development, IT operations, Red/Blue Teaming, and IT security research. His current focus is in expanding the uses for cyber threat intelligence. Mr. McCullough's hobbies include wood working and being outdoors, but mostly he drives his 4 kids around. Shaun is a candidate for the Master of Science in Information Security Engineering degree from the SANS Technology Institute.