Omar Santos

Omar Santos is a senior network security engineer and Incident Manager within the Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) at Cisco. Omar has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. government, including the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). He is also the author of many Cisco online technical documents and configuration guidelines. Before his current role, Omar was a technical leader within the World Wide Security Practice and Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC), where he taught, led, and mentored many engineers within both organizations. He is an active member of the InfraGard organization. InfraGard is a cooperative undertaking that involves the Federal Bureau of Investigation and an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants. InfraGard is dedicated to increasing the security of the critical infrastructures of the United States of America. Omar has also delivered numerous technical presentations to Cisco customers and partners, as well as executive presentations to CEOs, CIOs, and CSOs of many organizations. He is also the author of the Cisco Press books:Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Deployment and Troubleshooting, and Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance.