About the Author

Chad Sullivan is a consulting systems engineer for Cisco Systems based out of Atlanta who specializes in security on the Advanced Technologies Team. He is highly certified and currently holds three CCIEs (Security, Routing & Switching, and SNA/IP), Cisco CCSP, and Cisco INFOSEC, as well as a CISSP and CHSP from ISC2. Chad has focused predominantly on security as a specialty for a number of years and has been a member of the Cisco Security and VPN Virtual Team for the past five years as well as a member of several security professional societies.