Matthew Heckathorn

Software Engineering Institute

Matt Heckathorn is an integration engineer in the CERT division of the Software Engineering Institute, where he is responsible for assisting organizations in applying the DevOps process to their IT architecture. This work includes operating as a subject matter expert on a variety of automation technologies. Matt’s particular interests are containerization technologies such as docker and Kubernetes, configuration management tools such as ansible and puppet, and the Hashicorp suite of automation technologies such as vagrant, packer, and terraform. Before joining his current team, Matt assisted in administering a data center utilized by the U.S. government and was wholly responsible for overseeing the Spark/Hadoop cluster. Matt started his career at CERT as a network analyst. He has taught the Introduction to SiLK course at numerous FloCons.

Publications by Matthew Heckathorn

Infrastructure as Code Through Ansible

November 04, 2022 • Webinar

Matthew Heckathorn

In this webcast, Matthew Heckathorn discusses how Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a concept that enables organizations to automate the provisioning of IT infrastructure.
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Building Analytics for Network Flow Records

May 11, 2017 • Webinar

Timothy J. Shimeall Matthew Heckathorn

Learn how to identify network flow characteristics and metrics that support understanding traffic
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Network Traffic Analysis - SiLK

January 11, 2016 • Presentation

Paul Krystosek Matthew Heckathorn

This presentation, given at FloCon 2016, introduces you to network flow analysis using the CERT open source SiLK tool suite.
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Network Monitoring for Web-Based Threats

February 01, 2011 • Technical Report

Matthew Heckathorn

In this report, Matthew Heckathorn models the approach an attacker would take and provides detection or prevention methods to counter that approach.
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