Omar Santos
Omar Santos is an incident manager with Cisco's PSIRT. He has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. government, including the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Department of Defense. He is also the author of many Cisco online technical documents and configuration guidelines. 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 within both organizations. He is an active member of the InfraGard organization. InfraGard is a cooperative undertaking between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants that is dedicated to increasing the security of the critical infrastructures of the United States of America. Santos has also delivered numerous technical presentations to Cisco customers and partners; as well as executive presentations to CEOs, CIOs, and CSOs of many organizations. He is also the author of these Cisco Press books: Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance; Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Deployment and Troubleshooting; End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth; and Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (2nd Edition).
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Omar Santos
Omar Santos is a senior network security engineer and incident manager within the Product Security Incident Response team (PSIRT) at Cisco. He has more than ten years of experience in secure data communications. He has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. Government. Santos has lead several secure data communications implementations with the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and Department of Defense (DoD). He is also the author of many Cisco online technical documents and configuration guidelines and Cisco Press books. Santos graduated with an electrical and computer engineering (ECE) bachelor’s of science degree from Cornell University. He is an active member of the InfraGard organization. InfraGard is a cooperative undertaking between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants that is dedicated to increasing the security of the critical infrastructures of the United States of America. Santos has also delivered numerous technical presentations to Cisco partners and other organizations.
