About the Authors

Hamid Talebi

Hamid Talebi is an IT engineer with 14 years of experience and is a faculty member at Computer Information System Administration (CISA), School of Energy at BCIT. He has a Master of Science (MS) degree in Network Security. He has expertise and experience working with FortiGate and Palo Alto Firewalls, and SIEM software such as Qradar IBM, FortiSIEM, Splunk, and ArcSight.

Before joining BCIT, Hamid held multiple roles IT security roles with a number of reputable organizations, such as the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity and Bell. He designed and implemented a honeynet for the CIC and created a large IPS/IDS dataset over AWS for the CSE.

He has been working in developing strong information security architectures with an Agile Project Management delivery methodology and assisting in the development of client IT and security strategies. Hamid has taught Network Security Fundamentals, Enterprise Network Security (FortiGate), Advanced Network Security (Palo Alto – Splunk – FortiSIEM), and Network Programming with Python at BCIT.

Xavier Cawley

Xavier Cawley is a Junior Devops Engineer and recent graduate of the CISA program at BCIT. He has always had an interest in and knack for technology ever since the age of 10, whether it was fiddling with jumpers, or automating some tedious tasks for school. Whilst participating in the CISA program, Xavier was well known for creating guides and documentation for several classes and aiding students on labs and assignments.