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Erik Benner
Erik Benner
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Erik Benner

Erik Benner is the VP of Enterprise Transformation and an Oracle ACE director. He is an expert strategist for customers across the United States. His customer engagements range from enterprise cloud transformations to data center consolidation and modernization. He frequently presents at conferences such as Oracle CloudWorld, ASCEND, BLUEPRINT 4D, and FOSSY. Having worked with Oracle and Sun Systems since the mid-90s, Erik is well-versed in most of the core Oracle technologies, including Oracle Cloud, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Database. When not flying to far points of the country from the Metro Atlanta area, he enjoys spending time with his family at their observatory, where the telescopes outnumber the people.
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Erik B. Thomsen
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Erik B. Thomsen

Erik B. Thomsen is a Principal Sales Consultant passionate about Linux, cloud-native technologies, and “Everything as Code.” He is an innovative strategist with extensive experience working in multiple facets of IT, including DevSecOps, product management for databases and Linux, and platform engineering, where he led the development of an enterprise Kubernetes container platform. He has many years of consulting experience working for numerous Fortune 500 companies. Often described as a “visionary” or “thought leader” by his peers, Erik leverages his expertise in technology with his creative development and automation skills to help customers design, deploy, and manage cutting-edge IT solutions.
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Jonathan Spindel

Jonathan Spindel is a highly skilled and experienced technology leader and evangelist with a strong emphasis on Oracle ecosystems cloud infrastructure and automation. With over 23 years in the industry, he possesses a comprehensive understanding of managing, designing, and deploying multi-tenant enterprise systems and cloud solutions to address business needs and enhance operational processes. Jonathan excels in providing end-to-end management and technical turnkey cloud solutions that drive increased business productivity and reduce operational costs, ultimately delivering timely returns on investment. His hands-on approach and deep expertise in Oracle and mainstream infrastructure and cloud technologies enable him to optimize performance and streamline operations, while his proficiency in automation ensures efficient and error-free processes.
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Playing with Secure Boot

Secure Boot is an additional optional feature implemented in UEFI intended to help prevent malware execution during a boot process. To enable or disable Secure Boot, you need to access your specific UEFI setup program. This is different for each system manufacturer. Check your system documentation to see how to access the UEFI configuration.

The Secure Boot steps are identical to the regular UEFI booting but an important exception is that it requires the components to be signed and authenticated to be loaded and executed (private and public key pairs are used for authentication). It consists of two launch Roots of Trust (RoT) to build the transitive trust chains:

  • The verification RoT is responsible for the signature verification. The verification RoT is the launch RoT, which is what most are referring to when speaking about Secure Boot, and it will lie on the boot flash drive as the RoT for storage to protect the key database. Verify only after the...
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Oracle Linux Cookbook
Published in: Jan 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803249285

Authors (3)

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Erik Benner

Erik Benner is the VP of Enterprise Transformation and an Oracle ACE director. He is an expert strategist for customers across the United States. His customer engagements range from enterprise cloud transformations to data center consolidation and modernization. He frequently presents at conferences such as Oracle CloudWorld, ASCEND, BLUEPRINT 4D, and FOSSY. Having worked with Oracle and Sun Systems since the mid-90s, Erik is well-versed in most of the core Oracle technologies, including Oracle Cloud, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Database. When not flying to far points of the country from the Metro Atlanta area, he enjoys spending time with his family at their observatory, where the telescopes outnumber the people.
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Erik B. Thomsen

Erik B. Thomsen is a Principal Sales Consultant passionate about Linux, cloud-native technologies, and “Everything as Code.” He is an innovative strategist with extensive experience working in multiple facets of IT, including DevSecOps, product management for databases and Linux, and platform engineering, where he led the development of an enterprise Kubernetes container platform. He has many years of consulting experience working for numerous Fortune 500 companies. Often described as a “visionary” or “thought leader” by his peers, Erik leverages his expertise in technology with his creative development and automation skills to help customers design, deploy, and manage cutting-edge IT solutions.
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Jonathan Spindel

Jonathan Spindel is a highly skilled and experienced technology leader and evangelist with a strong emphasis on Oracle ecosystems cloud infrastructure and automation. With over 23 years in the industry, he possesses a comprehensive understanding of managing, designing, and deploying multi-tenant enterprise systems and cloud solutions to address business needs and enhance operational processes. Jonathan excels in providing end-to-end management and technical turnkey cloud solutions that drive increased business productivity and reduce operational costs, ultimately delivering timely returns on investment. His hands-on approach and deep expertise in Oracle and mainstream infrastructure and cloud technologies enable him to optimize performance and streamline operations, while his proficiency in automation ensures efficient and error-free processes.
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