Hacktivity 2020

I’ll never forget the first time I attended a hacking conference, it was at Hactivity back in 2012 and I still remember Vivek Ramachandran talking about cracking WPA and WPA2, and Joe McCray talking about Web Application Security. Back then, those guys were my heroes without capes.

Anyways, that day I thought…💭 one day I would like to speak here.
A few years later, in 2020, when the pandemic hit, I submitted my first CFP at guess where….hacktivity, of course.

The topic was Infrastructure Security Automation with Ansible. An, as I call, anorthodox way to use Ansible (at least it was back then). The presentation is about how Ansible can be used to run different Infrastructure security checks, and it was part of a large project I was working on for ING, my employer at the time.

In the presentation, there is an Ansible POC role that demonstrates various use cases. Of course, I continued working on that project for quite a long time, and at some point it was running in CI/CD, then the project was adapted globally within ING, and as far as I know, it still runs there.

If you’re interested in watching the presentation and exploring the topic further, you can find everything in this repository!