About the Technical Reviewers

Foster Lipkey, SFCE, is a senior member of the Cisco Firepower TAC team supporting Firepower, FireSIGHT, AMP for Endpoints, and Threat Grid, as well as third-party integrations. He has been a leader in developing tools and procedures for supporting the Cisco Firepower and AMP security software platforms. Prior to working for Sourcefire/Cisco, he was an applications solutions specialist as a contractor for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), supporting Java enterprise applications for the NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology. Foster’s primary areas of interest are enterprise security and security automation.

Mason Harris, CCIE No. 5916, is the chief solutions architect at vArmour, a cloud security startup based in Mountain View, California. He is responsible for all enterprise and platform architecture in both private and public cloud deployments. Previously he was a technical solutions architect for Cisco, focusing primarily on security architectures in the data center with Cisco’s 27 largest customers. Mason has more than 24 years of experience in systems architecture and is one the few individuals in the world to have attained five CCIE certifications. He also holds the CISSP, GPEN, and GCIH certifications. When not thinking about security topics, Mason can be found backpacking on long trails or at home with his family. A lifelong UNC Tarheels fan, he holds an undergraduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a master’s degree from NC State University, with a minor in Arabic.