Trevor Vaughan

Automating compliance for fun and…mostly for fun.

Over the last couple of decades, I’ve done everything from large-scale compliance automation to helping to start a company as well as professional consulting.

My primary focus is on DevSecOps and the surrounding ecosystem, but I happily dabble in anything from business process automation to federal policy ontology mappings.

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2026 1
2024 3
2022 1

2026

CentOS/RHEL 10 Yubikey Access via SSH

Intro I recently set up an external graphics card paired with a micro PC for local Ollama experimentation. It’s been a while since I set up a new CentOS sy...

2024

FIPS Enabling the FOSS Puppet Server

Intro This is primarily a running log for anyone that needs to FIPS-enable the FOSS version of Puppet. Pull Requests are most welcome if things change over...

FIPS 140-3

A Quick Note This article is written from my point of view and is trying to skirt the line between horribly boring compliance and things that folks might c...

Blogs and New Year Resolutions

Attempting to motivate myself to actually keep notes on things that I find interesting in a more organized fashion.

2022

Java Spring STIG

This article provides guidance on ensuring that the embedded Tomcat server provided with the Spring Framework is configured in accordance with the Tomcat Sec...