Fernando Arias

About Fernando Arias

Senior IT professional with over 20 + years of experience in the networking industry with a strong background in security and network architecture, hands-on experience leading all aspects of network and security solutions including requirements definition, design, architecture and implementation across all Market Sectors; Strong background in information security, IT Security compliance and industry regulations and hands-on experience with security analytics of network and endpoint platforms.Summary of Qualifications:In-depth knowledge of security technologies, vendors and security market trends – Network and Application Firewalls, IPS, NAC/802.1x, UTM with solid understanding of major INFOSEC governmental regulations and standards such as HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS.Experience with full packet capture and log correlation technologies to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and attack vectors as they relate to network and endpoint security exploits.Working knowledge of Windows and Linux and associated vulnerability scanning and auditing security tools. Working Knowledge of Virtualization Technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM) and Cloud Computing technologies (AWS, Azure, OpenStack)Solid expertise in network planning, design and implementation in large enterprise multi-vendor environments – Cisco, Juniper, Brocade/Foundry, F5 and Checkpoint.Strong routing and switching technology background with in-depth knowledge of network, security and application protocols- OSPF, BGP, RIP (v2), EIGRP, VPN (IPsec, SSL/TLS), HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, DNS.Strong Client-facing engagement experience and customer relationship building with business and technology decision makers.

Experience

1. Sr Systems Engineer - Security Delivery Platform

   Gigamon

   May 2016 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Pre-Sales Sr. Consultant Engineer focused on Gigamon’s GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform supporting a wide variety of security solutions by providing pervasive visibility to enable detection and mitigation of Security Threats across Physical, Virtual, Private and Public Cloud environments.Primary Responsibilities Include: Responsible for architecting security solutions that leverage Gigamon’s Traffic Intelligence Services to increase value of customer’s security tools across the security spectrum from Operational Intelligence to real-time analytics and cloud-based machine learning. Serve as trusted adviser to customers and partners to validate use cases and deployment architectures for Out-of-band and inline security solutions to better provide detection of malware, data exfiltration activity, post incident analytics, forensics and Identify traffic patterns and threat vectors across heterogeneous networks. Provide consultative services to customer base to demonstrate and validate value of security visibility for Virtual and Cloud Networks. Advise customers on best practices for Securing, Analyzing and Mitigating Threats to AWS workloads and VMware workloads.

Education

• Mercy University

  B.S, Computer Information Systems

Skills

• Tcp/Ip
• Data Center
• Network Design
• Network Security
• Cisco Technologies
• Routing
• Qos
• Ospf
• Juniper
• Network Architecture