About the Authors
Denise Helfrich is currently a technical program sales engineer developing and supporting global online labs for the Worldwide Sales Force Delivery. For the previous six years, she was a technical marketing engineer in the Access Router group, focusing on security for Cisco Systems. She is the author of many Cisco training courses, including Network Admission Control. She has been active in the voice/networking industry for over 20 years.
Lou Ronnau, CCIE No. 1536, is currently a technical leader in the Applied Intelligence group of the Customer Assurance Security Practice at Cisco Systems. He is the author of many Cisco solution guides along with Implementing Network Admission Control: Phase One Configuration and Deployment. He has been active in the networking industry for over 20 years, the last 12 years with Cisco Systems.
Jason Frazier is a technical leader in the Technology Systems Engineering group for Cisco Systems. He is a systems architect and one of the founders of Cisco's Identity-Based Networking Services (IBNS) strategy. Jason has authored many Cisco solution guides and often participates in industry forums such as Cisco Networkers. He has been involved with network design and security for seven years.
Paul Forbes is a technical marketing engineer in the Office of the CTO, within the Security Technology Group. His primary focus is on the NAC Partner Program, optimizing the integration between vendor applications and Cisco networking infrastructure. He is also active in other security architecture initiatives within the Office of the CTO. He has been active in the networking industry for ten years, as both a customer and working for Cisco.
About the Technical Reviewers
David Anderson, CCIE No. 7660, is an engineer in Cisco's Security Technology CTO Group. In his current role, he is working on next-generation security solutions for identity management, admission control, and security policy enforcement. He has worked on a variety of products and solutions during his seven years at Cisco. This work has included dial-access, disaster recovery, business continuance, application optimization, data center design, security architectures, and network admission control. David has authored and contributed to multiple design guides and white papers on these subjects. He has also presented these topics at conferences and forums in multiple countries. David currently holds both CCIE and CISSP certifications.
Darrin Miller is an engineer in Cisco's security technology group. Darrin is responsible for system-level security architecture. Darrin has worked primarily on policy-based admission and incident response programs within Cisco. Previous to that, Darrin has conducted security research in the areas of IPv6, SCADA, incident response, and trust models. This work has included protocol security analysis and security architectures for next-generation networks. Darrin has authored and contributed to several books and white papers on the subject of network security. Darrin has also spoken around the world at leading network security conferences on a variety of topics. Prior to his eight years at Cisco, Darrin held various positions in the network security community.
Ramakrishnan (Ramki) Rajamoni, CCIE No. 9016, is an engineer in Cisco's NSITE solution testing group. He has been associated with the Network Admission Control program since 2004. Previous to that, Ramki was involved with Cisco's IPsec and MPLS solutions. Prior to Cisco, Ramki held various positions in networking and customer support. In addition, Ramki has also authored and contributed to numerous works, and presented at various conferences on computer architecture.