About the Author(s)

Jazib Frahim, CCIE No. 5459, is a Principal Engineer in Cisco Security Solutions. He has been with Cisco for about 17 years, with a focus on cyber security and emerging security technologies. Jazib is also responsible for guiding customers in the design and implementation of security solutions and technologies in their networks. He leads a team of solutions architects to manage the lifecycle of solutions development. Jazib has also been engaged in the development of a number of customer-focused services, such as advanced threat analytics, hosted identity services, bring your own device (BYOD), and many others.

Jazib holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from North Carolina State University. In addition to CISSP and CISM, Jazib also holds two CCIEs, one in routing and switching and the other in security. He has presented at many industry events, such as Cisco Live, Interop, and ISSA, on multiple occasions. He has also authored and coauthored numerous technical documents, whitepapers, and books, including the following Cisco Press titles: Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (First, Second, and Third Editions), Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Framework Deployment and Troubleshooting, and SSL Remote Access VPNs.

Venkata (Josh) Josyula, CCIE No. 13518, attended the University of Miami, Florida, where he completed MS and PhD degrees in engineering. His undergraduate education is from Andhra University, Waltair, India. He has about 30 years of IT and telecommunications experience working at Cisco as Distinguished Engineer and AT&T/Lucent–Bell Laboratories as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff.

Josh led and built the first Cisco cloud solution, known as Virtualized Management Data Center (VMDC), and holds a patent on cloud containers that is widely used in deploying clouds. In addition, Josh has published over 60 technical papers, articles, and books on network management, OSS/BSS, and cloud. He is coauthor of the Cisco Press book Cloud Computing: Automating the Virtualized Data Center.

Josh recently retired from Cisco and is doing consulting work on cloud solutions for enterprises and service providers. He lives near Princeton, NJ, with his wife.

Monique Morrow is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), New Frontiers Engineering, at Cisco. Monique has a track record of co-innovating with customers across the globe from North America to Europe and Asia. Her specialties are in networking technology; grid, cloud computing, Intercloud federation, Internet of Things; M2M security and e-health; semantic web; and business development. Under Cisco’s Office of the CTO, both as an individual contributor and manager, Monique built a strong leadership team in Asia-Pacific. Her specific geo-area targets were China and India. Monique’s role in these important regions drove Cisco’s globalization and country strategies and met all of her targeted goals.

Monique is a staunch advocate for women in technology and was selected as one of the top 50 inspiring women in technology for Europe 2016, and a finalist for Digital Woman of the Year for Europe 2015. She is spearheading the “Internet of Women” global collaborative movement with a goal to develop a new social science for women in technology to sustainably transform this industry.

Monique has also been published in IEEE and other journals and speaks frequently at conferences, and she has coauthored three books, including MPLS and Next-Generation Networks: Foundations for NGN and Enterprise Virtualization by Cisco Press.

Ken Owens is Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Cloud Platforms Engineering, at Cisco Systems. Ken is responsible for creating and communicating technical/scientific vision and strategy for Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) business. He brings a compelling view of technology trends in enterprise IT (infrastructure, computing, SaaS, virtualization, and cloud) and evangelizes the technology roadmap for the business.

Ken started MANTL.io, a fully integrated and automated microservices infrastructure, and Cisco Shipped, an automated development SDLC. He is responsible for Cisco’s cloud-native development engineering and Technical Committee representative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Before joining Cisco in 2014, Ken spent over seven years at Savvis as the Chief Scientist, CTO, and VP Security and Virtualization Technologies. Prior assignments include five years as a network security architect at A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., and Edward Jones brokerage firms in St. Louis, MO, and 10 years in the design and architecture of communications systems and components for Erlang Technology, Tellabs, and Williams Telecommunications (WilTel).

Ken holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology.