About the Authors

Andre Karamanian, CCIE R/S No. 10228, attended Capitol College where he received his master’s degree in network security and where he is currently a doctoral student in information assurance. He is currently a security consultant at Cisco. He has worked in the field of security for approximately 11 years. Before he came to Cisco, Andre worked as a security leader at a large service provider for its large custom clients. He is highly credentialed with many industry certifications and has been a presenter at Networkers at Cisco Live for two years.

Srinivas Tenneti, CCIE R/S, Security, No. 10483, is currently working as an Enterprise systems engineer at Cisco. He has published design guides, white papers, and presentations on end-to-end solutions for enterprise and commercial customers. He also worked with several service providers to validate their network designs and architectures. Before he came to Cisco, he worked as a network specialist for a large service provider where he designed WANs for enterprise customers.

Francois Dessart, CCIE Security No. 15962, is currently a security consultant at Cisco. Before joining the European Advanced Services organization, he spent 4 years in the Security TAC in Brussels, solving complex PKI and VPN issues for Cisco customers. Francois has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Université Catholique de Louvain and recently received his master’s degree in management from the Louvain School of Management.