About the Authors
Jazib Frahim, CCIE No. 5459, is a Principal Engineer in the Global Security Services Practice at Cisco. He has been with Cisco for over 15 years, with a focus on cyber-security and emerging security technologies. Jazib is also responsible for guiding customers in the design and implementation of security solutions and technologies in their networks with a focus on network security. He leads a team of solutions architects to guide them through the lifecycle of services and solutions development. Jazib has also been engaged in the development of a number of customer-focused services, such as managed threat defense, network-based identity, bring-your-own-device (BYOD), and many others.
Jazib holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from North Carolina State University.
In addition to CISSP, Jazib also holds two CCIEs, one in routing and switching and the other in security. He has presented at many industry events, such as Cisco Live, Interop, and ISSA, on multiple occasions. He has also authored and coauthored numerous technical documents, whitepapers, and books, including the following Cisco Press titles:
Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance
Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance, Second Edition
Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Deployment and Troubleshooting
SSL Remote Access VPNs
Omar Santos is a Senior Incident Manager of Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), where he mentors and leads engineers and incident managers during the investigation and resolution of security vulnerabilities in all Cisco products. Omar has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. government. Prior to his current role, he was a technical leader within the World Wide Security Practice and Cisco’s Technical Assistance Center (TAC), where he taught, led, and mentored many engineers within both organizations.
Omar is an active member of the security community, where he leads several industry-wide initiatives and standards bodies. His active role helps businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants that are dedicated to increasing the security of the critical infrastructure.
Omar has delivered numerous technical presentations at conferences and to Cisco customers and partners, as well as many C-level executive presentations to many organizations. He has authored numerous whitepapers, articles, and security configuration guidelines and best practices, and has also authored or coauthored the following Cisco Press books:
Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance
Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance, Second Edition
Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Deployment and Troubleshooting
End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth
Andrew Ossipov, CCIE No. 18483 and CISSP No. 344324, is currently a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco with primary concentration on firewall, intrusion prevention, and other Cisco Data Center Security solutions. With over 15 years of networking experience, Andrew previously worked with LAN switching, routing protocol, and network data storage technologies and performed academic research in the area of VoIP. At Cisco, Andrew is involved in a broad range of activities that include solving customers’ technical problems of the highest complexity, architecting features and products, and defining the future direction of the product portfolio. He is an inventor and co-inventor of multiple pending cross-technology patents. Andrew received his bachelor of science in computer engineering and master of science in electrical engineering degrees from Wichita State University.