About the Technical Reviewers

Pavan Reddy, CCIE No. 4575, currently works as a consulting systems engineer for Cisco specializing in network security. Pavan has been collaborating with customers and partners on the design and implementation of large-scale enterprise and service provider security architectures for nearly ten years. Before joining Cisco, Pavan worked as a network security engineer in the construction and financial industries. Pavan also holds a bachelor of science degree in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon.

John Stuppi, CCIE No. 11154, is a network consulting engineer for Cisco. John is responsible for creating, testing, and communicating effective techniques using Cisco product capabilities to provide identification and mitigation options to Cisco customers who are facing current or expected security threats. John also advises Cisco customers on incident readiness and response methodologies and assists them in DoS and worm mitigation and preparedness. John is a CCIE and a CISSP, and he holds an Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professional Certification. In addition, John has a BSEE from Lehigh University and an MBA from Rutgers University. John lives in Ocean Township, New Jersey with his wife Diane and his two wonderful children, Thomas and Allison.