Elliot Kendall rejoined the Security Team and has been doing security scanning and audits and working on the two-factor authentication project. He spent the past 18 months performing a Shibboleth implementation for the University of California – San Francisco. Before heading west, Elliot was a member of the Emory’s Integration and Security teams, where he spent four years doing web hosting, Shibboleth, and wiki implementation.
A graduate of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, Elliot has bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature as well as computer science. Elliot also has a pair of GIAC certifications (intrusion detection analyst and web app defender).
Born in Gainesville, FL, Elliot loves to forage for wild mushrooms and hike. Elliot lives in San Francisco, CA and telecommutes 100% for the Security Team. He comes to Atlanta for meetings 4 or 5 times a year. If you walk by the Security cubicles in NDB, you can talk live to Elliot via a computer monitor with microphones. Elliot enjoys his virtual presence with his co-workers.
You can reach Elliot at elliot [dot] kendall [at] emory [dot] edu.
Nice to see universities such as Emory hiring good-quality talent for today’s ever-emerging cyber security threats. Two-factor authentication is such a must in today’s world of I.T. that it’s good to see this being implemented. I would also add that provisioning and hardening is without question one of the most important measures for helping ensure the safety and security of critical information systems. After all, how good is anyone’s security posture if no initiatives have been undertaken for locking down and hardening firewalls, routers, servers, applications and other critical hardware and software solutions? As a security auditor, I find that many companies – regardless of industry or size – have little or no documentation for such practices, which is not good at all, and it’s time this changes. After all, there are untold numbers of free and very cost-effective hardening checklists online that can be easily download and used immediately.