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.
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/.