About the Authors
Chris Jackson, CCIE No. 6256 (R&S and SEC), is a
Distinguished Architect and CTO for Global Sales
Training at Cisco. Chris is focused on digital
transformation and showing customers how to leverage
the tremendous business value Cisco technologies can
provide. He is the author of Network Security Auditing
(Cisco Press, 2010), CCNA Cloud CLDADM 210-455
Official Cert Guide (Cisco Press, 2016), and various
online video courses for Cisco Press. He holds dual
CCIEs in security and routing and switching, CISA,
CISSP, ITIL v3, seven SANS certifications, and a
bachelor’s degree in business administration. Residing in
Franklin, Tennessee, Chris enjoys tinkering with
electronics, robotics, and anything else that can be
programmed to do his bidding. In addition, he is a 3rd
Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo, rabid Star Wars fan,
and has a ridiculous collection of Lego. His wife Piper
and three children Caleb, Sydney, and Savannah are the
true joy of his life and proof that not everything has to
plug into a wall outlet to be fun.
Jason Gooley, CCIE No. 38759 (R&S and SP), is a
very enthusiastic and spontaneous person who has more
than 20 years of experience in the industry. Currently,
Jason works as a Technical Evangelist for the Worldwide
Enterprise Networking Sales team at Cisco Systems.
Jason is very passionate about helping others in the
industry succeed. In addition to being a Cisco Press
author, Jason is a distinguished speaker at Cisco Live,
contributes to the development of the Cisco CCIE and
DevNet exams, provides training for Learning@Cisco, is
an active CCIE mentor, is a committee member for the
Cisco Continuing Education Program (CE), and is a
program committee member of the Chicago Network
Operators Group (CHI-NOG), http://www.chinog.org. Jason