Blair Rampling

Blair Rampling (Vancouver, British Columbia) is currently the Senior Systems Administrator and system architect for a mid-size ISP/Webhosting company with several offices across North America. In this role he is responsible for designing every aspect of company systems from the initial implementation to policies and procedures including security. The environment consists of a large number of Windows Servers with some NT 4.0 systems used mainly for web hosting, a large number of Linux servers...See more

Blair Rampling (Vancouver, British Columbia) is currently the Senior Systems Administrator and system architect for a mid-size ISP/Webhosting company with several offices across North America. In this role he is responsible for designing every aspect of company systems from the initial implementation to policies and procedures including security. The environment consists of a large number of Windows Servers with some NT 4.0 systems used mainly for web hosting, a large number of Linux servers used for web hosting and infrastructure (DNS etc.) and a number of Sun Solaris boxes used for high end webhosting (load balanced/redundant configurations), and infrastructure (incoming and outgoing mail. Aside from his experience with Windows and UNIX security, Blair is also familiar with several types of firewalls (NetScreen, ipfilter, Raptor) and load balancing devices (Cisco/Arrowpoint CSS, Radware, Big/IP). See less