Omar Santos

Omar Santos is a Principal Engineer in the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) part of Cisco's Security Research and Operations. He mentors and leads engineers and incident managers during the investigation and resolution of security vulnerabilities in all Cisco products. Omar has been working with information technology and cyber security since the mid-1990s. Omar has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune 100 and 500 companies and for the...See more

Omar Santos is a Principal Engineer in the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) part of Cisco's Security Research and Operations. He mentors and leads engineers and incident managers during the investigation and resolution of security vulnerabilities in all Cisco products. Omar has been working with information technology and cyber security since the mid-1990s. Omar has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune 100 and 500 companies and for the U.S. government. Prior to his current role, he was a Technical Leader within the World Wide Security Practice and the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC), where he taught, led, and mentored many engineers within both organizations. Omar is an active member of the security community, where he leads several industrywide initiatives and standard bodies. His active role helps businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants that are dedicated to increasing the security of the critical infrastructure. Omar is the author of several books and numerous whitepapers, articles, and security configuration guidelines and best practices. He has also delivered numerous technical presentations at many conferences and to Cisco customers and partners, in addition to many C-level executive presentations to many organizations. Omar is the author of the following Cisco Press books: CCNA Security 210-260 Official Cert Guide , ISBN-13: 9781587205668 Deploying Next-Generation Firewalls Live Lessons , ISBN-13: 9781587205705 Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) , ISBN-13: 9781587144462 Cisco ASA Next-Generation Firewall, IPS, and VPN Services (3rd Edition), ISBN-10: 1587143070 Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (2nd Edition), ISBN-10: 1587058197 Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance , ISBN-10: 1587052091 Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume: Deployment and Management , ISBN-10: 1587052253 End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth , ISBN-10: 1587053322 See less