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Omar Santos

Principal Engineer

Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) Security Research and Operations

Omar Santos is an active member of the cyber security community, where he leads several industry-wide initiatives and standards bodies. His active role helps businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to increasing the security of their critical infrastructures.

Omar is the author of more than twenty (20) books and video courses, as well as numerous white papers, articles, and security configuration guidelines and best practices. Omar is a principal engineer of the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), where he mentors and leads engineers and incident managers during the investigation and resolution of cyber security vulnerabilities. Additional information about Omar's current projects can be found at this website, and you can follow Omar on Twitter: @santosomar

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December 18, 2012

SECURITY

Let’s Hack Some Cisco Gear at SecCon!

Cisco SecCon 2012 brought together hundreds of engineers, live and virtually, from Cisco offices around the globe with one common goal: to share their knowledge and learn best practices about how to increase the overall security posture of Cisco products. It is amazing to see how many definitions th…

November 26, 2012

SECURITY

The Day I Lost My Mobile with Sensitive Corporate Data

It was a dark, cold, and scary night when I returned from dinner with friends and noticed that my mobile phone was missing. It had corporate sensitive data such as emails, calendar events, and documents, as well as personal data (including pictures, videos and other documents). Well, let me be hones…

November 15, 2012

SECURITY

BYOD Presentations at Cisco Live Cancun 2012

I just returned from Cancun after delivering a BYOD seminar, as part of Cisco Live Mexico 2012. Bring your own device (BYOD) was a hot topic at Cisco Live in Cancun. There were several in-depth presentations regarding the architecture, design, implementation, and troubleshooting of all the technolog…