Eric Vyncke has a master’s degree in computer science engineering from the University of Liège in Belgium. He
worked as a research assistant in the same university before joining Network Research Belgium. At Network
Research Belgium, he was the head of R&D. He then joined Siemens as a project manager for security projects,
including a proxy firewall. Since 1997, he has worked as a distinguished consulting engineer for Cisco as a technical
consultant for security covering Europe. For 20 years, Eric’s area of expertise has been security from Layer 2 to
the application layer. He is also a guest professor at some Belgian universities for security seminars. Eric is also a
frequent speaker at security events (such as Networkers at Cisco Live and RSA Conference).
Christopher Paggen joined Cisco in 1996 where he has held various positions gravitating around LAN switching
and security technologies. Lately, he has been in charge of defining product requirements for the company’s current
and future high-end firewalls. Christopher holds several U.S. patents, one of which pertains to Dynamic ARP
Inspection (DAI). As CCIE No. 2659, Christopher also owns a B.S. in computer science from HEMES (Belgium)
and went on to study economics at UMH (Belgium) for two more years.
Scott Hogg, CCIE No. 5133, has been a network computing consultant for more than 17 years. Scott provides network engineering, security consulting, and training services, focusing on creating reliable, high-performance, secure, manageable, and cost-effective network solutions. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Colorado State University and a master’s degree in telecommunications from the University of Colorado. In addition to his CCIE he has his CISSP (No. 4610) and many other vendor and industry certifications. Scott has designed, implemented, and troubleshot networks for many large enterprises, service providers, and government organizations. For the past eight years, Scott has been researching IPv6 technologies. Scott has written several white papers on IPv6 and has given numerous presentations and demonstrations of IPv6 technologies. He is also currently the chair of the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force and the Director of Advanced Technology Services at Global Technology Resources, Inc. (GTRI), a Cisco Gold partner headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Eric Vynckeis a Distinguished System Engineer for Cisco working as a technical consultant for security covering Europe. His main area of expertise for 20 years has been security from Layer 2 to applications. He has helped several organizations deploy IPv6 securely. For the past eight years, Eric has participated in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) (he is the author of RFC 3585). Eric is a frequent speaker at security events (notably Cisco Live [formerly Networkers]) and is also a guest professor at Belgian Universities for security seminars. He has a master’s degree in computer science engineering from the University of Liège in Belgium. He worked as a research assistant in the same university before joining Network Research Belgium, where he was the head of R&D; he then joined Siemens as a project manager for security projects including a proxy firewall. He coauthored the Cisco Press book LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Know About Your Switches. He is CISSP No. 75165.