Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the technical editors, Magnus Mortensen and Phillip Strelau, for their time and technical expertise. They verified our work and corrected us in all the major and minor mistakes that were hard to find.

We would like to thank the Cisco Press team, especially Brett Bartow, Marianne Bartow, Christopher Cleveland, and Andrew Cupp, for their patience, guidance, and consideration. Their efforts are greatly appreciated.

Many thanks to our Cisco management team, including Bryan Palma, David Phillips, Sanjay Pol, Klee Michaelis, and Russell Smoak, for their continuous support. They highly encouraged us throughout this project.

Kudos to the Cisco ASA product development team for delivering such a great product. Their support is also greatly appreciated during the development of this book.

Finally, we would like to acknowledge the Cisco TAC. Some of the best and brightest minds in the networking industry work there, supporting our Cisco customers often under very stressful conditions and working miracles daily. They are truly unsung heroes, and we are all honored to have had the privilege of working side by side with them in the trenches of the TAC.