About the Technical Reviewers

Pavan Reddy serves as a Security Principal in Cisco Security Services. Pavan has 20+ years of security and network consulting experience in Financial Services, Healthcare, Service Provider, and Retail arenas. Recent projects cover Technical Security Strategy and Architecture, Network Segmentation Strategy, Threat Intelligence Analytics, Distributed Denial-of-Service Mitigation Architectures, and DNS Architecture and Security. Pavan holds multiple CCIEs and BS in Computer Engineering.

Ron Taylor has been in the Information Security field for almost 20 years. Ten of those years were spent in consulting where he gained experience in many areas. In 2008, he joined the Cisco Global Certification Team as an SME in Information Assurance. In 2012, he moved into a position with the Security Research & Operations group (PSIRT), where his focus was mostly on penetration testing of Cisco products and services. He was also involved in developing and presenting security training to internal development and test teams globally. Additionally, he provided consulting support to many product teams as an SME on product security testing. In his current role, he is a Consulting Systems Engineer specializing in Cisco’s security product line. Certifications include GPEN, GWEB, GCIA, GCIH, GWAPT, RHCE, CCSP, CCNA, CISSP, and MCSE. Ron is also a Cisco Security Blackbelt, SANS mentor, Cofounder and President of the Raleigh BSides Security Conference, and a member of the Packet Hacking Village team at Defcon.