Webinar
Cybersecurity Skills, Simplified: A Framework That Works
June 11, 2025 | 08:00 AM PDT (UTC-7)
Join us for a Complimentary Live Webinar Sponsored by Linux Foundation Education & OpenSSF
There is no shortage of reasons why leaders need a better approach to upskilling their IT teams’ cybersecurity prowess. Several frameworks exist but they are complex and, in some cases, very industry specific. This webinar will showcase our new, globally relevant, industry agnostic Cybersecurity Framework for 14 key job families, each at multiple experience levels. You will also learn how you can leverage this free framework tool to quickly and easily identify critical cybersecurity skills and create a custom framework for the job roles within your team.
In this webinar you will:
- Learn the actions executive leaders can easily take to increase organizational cybersecurity prowess.
- See how quick and easy it is to build a customized cybersecurity framework for your organization.
- Understand how this framework simplifies and aligns to existing standards such as DoD 8140, the CISA NICE Framework, and ICT e-CF.
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Speakers
Clyde Seepersad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Education, The Linux Foundation
Clyde Seepersad is responsible for the training and certification arm of the Linux Foundation. Over the past decade, Clyde has held leadership positions in the education space, most recently as head of operations at 360training.com and before that as a senior executive of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Prior to his involvement in education, Clyde was a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA and a Masters in Economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Christopher “CRob” Robinson, Chief Architect, OpenSSF
Christopher “CRob” Robinson is the Chief Security Architect for the Open Source Software Foundation (OpenSSF). With over 25 years of experience in engineering and leadership, he has worked with Fortune 500 companies in industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, and spent six years as Program Architect for Red Hat’s Product Security team. He holds certifications like CISSP and CSSLP. He leads several OpenSSF working groups, chairs its Technical Advisory Committee and contributes to the FIRST PSIRT SIG.
Jamie Thomas, Chief Client Innovation Officer and the Enterprise Security Executive, IBM
Jamie Thomas has a history of setting innovation agendas that provide business solutions to clients worldwide. She has extensive organizational experience with R&D and client support transformation. She currently serves as IBM’s Chief Client Innovation Officer and the IBM Enterprise Security Executive. She is also on the OpenSSF Governing Board.
Arun Gupta, Vice President and General Manager, Developer Programs, Intel
Arun Gupta is vice president of Developer Programs at Intel Corporation. He has over two decades of experience building, growing, and fostering large developer communities at companies such as Amazon, Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Intel. He has taken these companies through systemic changes to embrace open source principles, contribute, and collaborate effectively in open source.
As two-time elected chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board, Arun works with CNCF leadership and member companies to grow the cloud native ecosystem. He is also the elected Governing Board Chair of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) focused on securing the open source software ecosystem. He also participates on the Linux Foundation Governing Board.
Tim Serewicz, Vice President of Education, Linux Foundation Education
Tim Serewicz is the Vice President of Education for the Linux Foundation with over twenty years of experience working with Linux, emerging technology, and open source projects. In this role, he is accountable for the department's strategy, development, and cross-functional delivery of content. Tim also leads the Security Knowledge Framework team, building a platform of cybersecurity scenarios for developers to learn and test their skills, as well as keep current with common vulnerabilities. He also created, maintains, and teaches Quantum Computing, CKA, CKAD, and CKS Kubernetes courses and acts as an in-house subject matter expert for cloud topics for the certification team.