Branson Matheson
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.
Branson is a 27-year veteran of system administration and security. He started in cryptology for the Navy and has since worked on NASA shuttle projects, TSA security systems, search engines and supports many open-source projects. He founded sandSecurity to provide policy and technical audits, support and training for IT security and system administrators. Branson is currently the Director of IT for Blackphone, and generally likes to spend time responding to the statement "I bet you can't…"
