About the Authors

Omar Santos, CISSP No. 463598, is a principal engineer 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 held information technology and cybersecurity positions since the mid-1990s. 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.

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 critical infrastructure. Omar has delivered numerous technical presentations at conferences worldwide and to Cisco customers and partners, and he has given C-level executive presentations to many organizations. Omar is the author of the following books and video courses:

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, 2nd edition

Cisco: All-in-One ASA Next-Generation Firewall, IPS, and VPN Services, 3rd edition

Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume: Deployment and Management

End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth

Network Security with NetFlow and IPFIX: Big Data Analytics for Information Security

CCNA Security 210-260 Complete Video Course

CCNA Security 210-260 Official Cert Guide

Deploying Next-Generation Firewalls LiveLessons

The Current Security Threat Landscape Networking Talks LiveLessons

Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) LiveLessons

Panos Kampanakis, CCIE No. 28561, CISSP No. 367831, is a technical marketing engineer in Cisco’s Security and Trust Organization (S&TO). He was born in Athens, Greece, and received a five-year degree in electrical and computer engineering from National Technical University of Athens and an MSc from North Carolina State University. His MS thesis was on efficient elliptic curve cryptography and bilinear pairing on sensor networks.

Panos has extensive experience with cryptography, security automation, vulnerability management, and cybersecurity. In his professional career, he has supported and provided security advice to multiple Cisco customers. He has trained and presented on various security topics at Cisco Live for numerous years. He has participated in various security standards bodies, providing common interoperable protocols and languages for security information sharing, cryptography, and PKI. Panos has also worked extensively with Cisco’s PSIRT to provide vulnerability mitigations. His current interests include next-generation cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, standards efforts that enable cryptographic implementation interoperability, and IoT security and cryptography. The following are some of his recent publications:

Postquantum Preshared Keys for IKEv2 IETF draft https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fluhrer-qr-ikev2

BAFi: A Practical Cryptographic Secure Audit Logging Scheme for Digital Forensics. Security Comm. Networks, doi: 10.1002/sec.1242

Eric W. Burger, Michael D. Goodman, Panos Kampanakis, and Kevin A. Zhu. 2014. “Taxonomy Model for Cyber Threat Intelligence Information Exchange Technologies,” in Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Workshop on Information Sharing & Collaborative Security(WISCS ‘14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 51-60

“Security Automation and Threat Information-Sharing Options, Security & Privacy,” in IEEE, vol.12, no.5, pp.42,51, Sept.-Oct. 2014

Kampanakis, P.; Perros, H.; Beyene, T., SDN-Based Solutions for Moving Target Defense Network Protection, A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2014 IEEE 15th International Symposium, vol., no., pp.1,6, 19-19 June 2014

IODEF Usage Guidance IETF draft https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mile-iodef-guidance

Next Generation Encryption on cisco.com

Cisco Firewall Best Practices Guide on cisco.com

In his free time, Panos has a passion for basketball, and he never likes to lose.

Aaron Woland, CCIE No. 20113, is a principal engineer in Cisco’s Security Business Group and works with Cisco’s largest customers all over the world. His primary job responsibilities include secure access and identity deployments with ISE, solution enhancements, standards development, and futures. Aaron joined Cisco in 2005 and is currently a member of numerous security advisory boards and standards body working groups. Prior to joining Cisco, Aaron spent 12 years as a consultant and technical trainer. His areas of expertise include network and host security architecture and implementation, regulatory compliance, and route switch and wireless. Aaron is one of six inaugural members of the Hall of Fame for Distinguished Speakers at Cisco Live and is a security columnist for Network World, where he blogs on all things related to identity. His other certifications include GHIC, GSEC, Certified Ethical Hacker, MCSE, VCP, CCSP, CCNP, and CCDP. You can follow Aaron on Twitter @aaronwoland.

Aaron is the author of the following books and courses, as well as many published white papers and design guides:

CCNP Security SISAS 300-208 Official Cert Guide

Cisco ISE for BYOD and Secure Unified Access

CCNA Security 210-260 Complete Video Course