I have been in the networking business for over 20 years. I started working on Novell and later added Windows. In the process started working on the old ‘LAN-to-LAN’ boards which eventually became Cisco appliances. The natural progression for me was to deploy many Internet connections at the time and start to worry about remote connectivity since most customers at the time would assign public IPs to their internal devices. That is where it began.
My role changed when I left that company to another and took on more of the firewall deployments for customers. Mostly Checkpoint running on NT (I know , I know) and PIX (the original ones with the floppy).
Since then I have worked at numerous technology companies (integrators and service providers) as well as Lucent during its heyday. These days I am focusing on getting my CCIE Security and building a security practice for the company I am currently at. I am certified in Checkpoint, Cisco & PaloAlto and I am currently looking to get in bed with Intel Security for some of the other great products they have.
I am writing this blog for a couple of reasons:
1. To keep my thoughts straight and be able to look back and see a path to where I am currently at and where I was.
2. To help with my studying for the practical (3rd one is the charm… I hope). I figured that if I learn the technology, do the labs, look at the debug output and then write about it, I will have the benefit of it going into my brain and then back out. Double the opportunity to retain it.
Hope this page helps someone out other than myself.