About the Author

Greg Abelar has been an employee of Cisco Systems, Inc., since December 1996. He was an original member of the Cisco Technical Assistance Security Team, helping to hire and train many of the engineers. He has held various positions in both the Security Architecture and Security Technical Marketing Engineering Teams at Cisco. Greg is the primary founder and project manager of the Cisco Written CCIE Security exam. Prior to his employment at Cisco, Greg worked at Apple Computer, Inc., for eight years as a TCP/IP, IPX, and AppleTalk cross-platform escalation engineer. At Apple, he also served as a project leader in the technical platform deployment for the Apple worldwide network. From 1991 to 1996, Greg worked as both a systems programmer and an IT manager for Plantronics, Inc. From 1985 to 1991, Greg was employed by the County Bank of Santa Cruz, working as an applications programmer. Greg lives with his wife, Ellen, and three children, Jesse, Ethan and Ryan, in Aptos, California.