Dennis E. Lee
About the Authors
Erez Ben-Ari is a long-time Technologist and Journalist, and has worked in the Information Technology industry since 1991. During his career, Erez has provided security consulting and analysis services for some of the leading companies and organizations in the world, including Intel, IBM, Amdocs, CA, HP, NDS, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and many others. His work has gained national fame in Israel and he has been featured in the press regularly. Having joined Microsoft in 2000, Erez has worked for many years in Microsoft's Development Center in Israel, where Microsoft's ISA Server was developed. Being a part of the release of ISA 2000, ISA 2004, and ISA 2006, Erez held several roles, including Operation engineering, Software testing, Web-based software design, and testing automation design. Now living in the United States, Erez still works for Microsoft, currently as a senior support escalation engineer for UAG.
As a journalist, Erez has been writing since 1995, and has written for some of the leading publications in Israel and in the United States. He has been a member of the Israeli National Press Office since 2001, and his personal blogs are read by thousands of visitors per month. Erez has also written, produced, and edited content for TV and Radio, working for Israel's TV Channel 2, Ana-Ney communications, Radio Haifa, and other venues.
Erez is also the author of the hugely successful title Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook , also by Packt Publishing. The administrator's Handbook has received all five-star reviews on Amazon and is considered to be the most comprehensive guide to UAG in existence.
Rainier Amara is a confirmed IT professional with more than 15 years specialist experience in the field of Internet security and remote access. From a young age, Rainier was already renowned for his inquisitive nature and attraction to all things electronic, and by the age of 8 he had already embarked on journey that would feed his passion for IT.
It was in his early teens that he received his first personal computer, but his professional career took off at the age of 18, when he served in the French National Army as a communications engineer. From there Rainier has travelled the world in various roles and has not looked back since.
Rainier now works in the Microsoft EDGE security team as a support escalation engineer, where he is responsible for providing customers and partners with the highest levels of expertise and advisory services on Forefront UAG and DirectAccess.
Outside of work Rainier spends as much time as he can with his wife and three children doing lots of crazy and wonderful things, and when not being a dad he enjoys downhill mountain biking in the French alps.
About the Reviewers
Ran Dolev is a veteran of the network security and SSL VPN industries. Ran has worked with the UAG product for around fourteen years, since the product's inception at the startup company Whale Communications in 1998, where Ran was the first full-time developer of the product. After several years in development, Ran moved to a services position as the EMEA Professional Services Manager for the team. In this role, Ran has designed and delivered numerous IAG and UAG training sessions in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia, to customers, partners, and Microsoft employees. Ran also provided consulting and deployment services for many of Microsoft's enterprise UAG customers.
In January 2011, Ran, together with Erez Ben Ari, co-authored the Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook , also from Packt Publishing.
Nowadays, Ran is as a Senior Program Manager in the UAG Product Team.
Dennis E. Lee is a security, identity, and access management specialist who dedicates his career to helping organizations improve the way their employees work. Starting in New York city at Something Digital as an IT consultant, he saw how technology could help improve people's lives both at work and at home. He then focused on security issues, gaining expertise in networking and becoming a Microsoft MVP in Forefront Security. Dennis is now focusing his energies in the fields of cloud, virtualization, and mobile technologies.
I'd like to thank my family and friends Doc, Ben, and Rainier for their unconditional support throughout the years.
Richard Hicks is a network security specialist and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Forefront protection technologies. He has been working with Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 and its predecessors for more than 14 years, and has been working with Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 since it was released several years ago. He has designed and deployed edge security and remote access solutions using Microsoft Forefront technologies for small and mid-sized businesses, military, government, and Fortune 500 companies around the world. Richard is the director of sales engineering for security appliance vendor Celestix Networks and oversees a talented team of pre-sales technical support engineers around the world. Richard is currently a Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional Enterprise Administrator (MCITP:EA). He is also a contributing author for popular technology websites ISAserver.org
and TechRepbulic.com
. You can read his blog at http://tmgblog.richardhicks.com/.
I'd like to thank Ben and Rainier for giving me the opportunity to have a small part in this project by serving as the technical reviewer. Certainly there are many who are more qualified than I am for this role, so thanks for choosing me! It has been great reading through the drafts and learning so much along the way. I hope you found my thoughts, ideas, and suggestions helpful.