About the Technical Reviewers

Ed Mendez is a senior instructional design and training manager with Cisco Systems, Inc. He has been an education specialist and instructor of many IT security products and technologies for more than 20 years. Ed works with the Cisco certification development team and develops courseware for various Cisco security certification programs. He came to Cisco from the Sourcefire acquisition, where he developed courseware, designed lab infrastructure, and delivered training on many Sourcefire products, including Firepower NGFW, NGIPS, AMP, and Snort. Before joining Sourcefire, he worked at Internet Security Systems (ISS) in the professional services and education departments. Besides holding certifications on many products for which he developed training courses, he also earned CISSP certification in 2002.

John Wise is a senior security instructor and courseware developer with Cisco Systems, Inc., specializing in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) and Advanced Malware Protection (AMP). He develops and delivers the Cisco training offerings on next-generation firewall (NGFW) and next-generation intrusion prevention systems (NGIPS). With his decade of teaching and security experiences, John also coaches new instructors at the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) organization. John has been recognized as a Distinguished Speaker at various Cisco Live events held in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.