About the Technical Reviewers

Greg Abelar has been an employee of Cisco since December 1996. He was an original member of the Cisco Technical Assistance Security team, helping to hire and train many of the engineers. He has held various positions in both the Security Architecture and Security Technical Marketing Engineering teams at Cisco. Greg is the primary founder and project manager of the Cisco written CCIE Security exam. Greg is the author of the Cisco Press title Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls and coauthor of Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS, and has been a technical editor for various Cisco Press security books.

Visit Greg’s blogs:
Internet Security for the Home—http://security1a.blogspot.com/
Enterprise Internet Security—http://security2b.blogspot.com/

Mark Macumber is a systems engineer in the field sales organization for Cisco. Mark joined Cisco in 1999 working in the Network Service Provider Sales Division on Internet Service Provider networks and with telco DSL network designs. Since 2002, Mark has served in the large enterprise customer space working through customer designs for campus switching, WAN routing, unified communications, wireless, and security. Security products and architecture are Mark’s current technical focus within the enterprise space. The Enterprise Security SE team learns and delivers content on Cisco security products such as firewalls, host/network based intrusion detection/prevention systems, AAA, security information management, network admission control, and SSL/IPSec VPN.