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2026 speaker

Gene Gotimer

Gene Gotimer

DevSecOps Engineer

Leesburg, VA

Gene Gotimer is a DevSecOps Engineer who loves playing with new tools, focusing on agile processes, securing development practices, and automating everything. Gene feels strongly that repeatability, quality, and security are all strongly intertwined; each depends on the other two, making agile and DevSecOps crucial to software development.

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2026 · intermediate

Bad Things You Can Do to Unsecured Containers

There is plenty of advice about what to do when building and deploying containers to make sure we are secure. But why do we need to do them? How important are some of these “best” practices? Can someone take over my entire system because I missed one step? What is the worst that could happen, really?

Join Gene as he demonstrates some of the bad things that can happen when we take shortcuts with securing our containers. We’ll look at some common security recommendations, but we’ll focus more on the impact of not securing containers properly. Nothing reinforces good practices more than seeing what not to do and why.

If you’ve ever wondered how important those container recommendations are, this is where you can find out.

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