About the author

Maurizio Moroni is a network and security engineer with more than thirty years in systems engineering, routing, and network defense. Most of that time he has worked directly with enterprise CIOs, CTOs, and security operations teams, connecting network engineering detail to the security decisions that keep production running.

His career has followed the infrastructure this book is about. At Cisco he worked on service-provider routing architectures. At Juniper Networks he worked on network virtualization and 5G core security. At AlgoSec he led enterprise deployments of network security policy management, the discipline at the center of the book. He has spoken at industry events including Cisco Live, and his certifications include CISSP, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, and AWS and Azure credentials. He lives and works in the Greater Milan area.

Vendor neutrality

The author works at AlgoSec, but the book and this site are vendor-neutral. AlgoSec appears only alongside other vendors such as FireMon and Tufin as an example of the category, and neither the book nor this site endorses any product. This is a personal site and is not affiliated with the author’s employer.