Meeting Mark Bolwell Principal Automation Engineer at MindPoint Group

I interviewed Mark Bolwell, Principal Automation Engineer at MindPoint Group, at Ansible Automates London 2023 conference explaining how to simplify Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Compliance for the CIS Benchmark.

Ansible Lockdown

Ansible Lockdown is a security baseline automation project sponsored by Mindpoint Group. It elaborates the resources, significance and objective of using the Automated Security Benchmark for auditing and remediation of system security. Our MPG Ansible Lockdown roles can be applied to systems to improve security posture, meet compliance requirements, and deploy without disruption after due diligence. Security hardening is achieved through the use of industry-recognized benchmarks CIS and DISA STIG, which provide open-source licensed configurations to bring systems into security compliance. The content delivered consists of an audit component based on GOSS that…