About the Contributing Authors
Rajesh Bhandari is a network security solutions architect with Cisco. He is responsible for defining a security architecture that incorporates standards-based techniques for building a secure network as part of Cisco's Self Defending Network initiative. At Cisco, Rajesh has also served as a technical leader in storage networking and as a software engineer on the Catalyst 6000 platform. Prior to joining Cisco in 1999, Rajesh was a software engineer in optical networking at Nortel Networks. He has a B.S. (mathematics honors) from University of Victoria, Canada. Rajesh cowrote Chapter 18, "IEEE 802.1AE."
Steinthor Bjarnason has a degree in computer science from the University of Iceland. Prior to joining Cisco in 2000, he designed and implemented online transaction systems for financial companies worldwide. He is currently a consulting engineer for Cisco, focusing on integrated security solutions and attack prevention. Steinthor is a frequent speaker at events, such as Networkers at Cisco Live. Steinthor wrote Chapter 12, "Introduction to Denial of Service Attacks," and Chapter 13, "Control Plane Policing."
Ken Hook, CCNA, CCNP, CISSP, cofounder and original solution manager of Cisco Identity Based Networking Services (IBNS), as well as former Cisco Content Delivery Networking and Catalyst 6500 product manager. Prior to joining Cisco, Ken had more than 15 years in the industry ranging from application development, network integration consulting, and enterprise scale project and program management. Today Ken works as a Cisco solution manager for the Cisco integrated switch security services initiatives. Ken cowrote Chapter 18, "IEEE 802.1AE."
Jason Frazier is a technical leader in the Technology Systems Engineering group for Cisco. He is a systems architect and one of the founders of the Cisco Identity Based Networking Services (IBNS) initiative. Jason has authored many Cisco solution guides and often participates in industry forums such as Cisco Networkers. He has been involved with network design and security for 8 years. Jason wrote Chapter 17, "Identity-Based Networking Services with 802.1X."
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