About the Technical Reviewers

Aamer Akhter, CCIE No. 4543, joined Cisco Systems in 1998 after graduating from Georgia Tech with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering to work in the Cisco Technical Assistance Center. He then supported the larger enterprise customers from Cisco in the NSA unit, where he helped design and deploy several large Layer 2 networks. Aamer later moved to Networked Solutions Integration Test Engineering (NSITE), where after a brief stint with IPsec VPNs, he moved into a new group for testing MPLS-VPNs. Five years later, MPLS-VPNS had matured much but testing of MPLS-related technologies still continues. Aamer is currently leading a team for testing Layer 3 VPNs and related technologies in a cross-Cisco effort.

Jason Guy is an engineer within the Cisco Systems' NSITE Security team, an organization responsible for network-based security solution testing. Jason is a member of a team responsible for testing, validating, scaling, and assisting in deployment of the Cisco security solution. Jason's primary focus is on firewalls, IPsec Remote Access, and SSL VPN testing. Prior to his work on the security technologies, Jason worked on the AToM Layer 2 VPN and MPLS VPN teams. Jason received his Masters of Computer Engineering degree from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Mark J. Newcomb, CCNP, CCDP, is a retired network security engineer. Mark has more than 20 years experience in the networking industry, focusing on the financial and medical industries. Mark is a frequent contributor and reviewer for Cisco Press books.