Andrew Benhase

Melbourne, Florida Area United States

Principal Architect at Cisco Systems

Andrew Benhase has a 27-year Network Security background focused exclusively on data networking and information assurance technologies. 
 Andrews technical background stretches back to Systems Engineering for IBM Series/1 mainframes and bisynchronous networking to SNA and now scaling to 100 Gigabit IP security architectures today.
 Early in his career, he was instrumental in the initial deployment and design for packet filtering as a firewall technology as well as the eventual adoption of stateful firewalls in the mid-90s from NTI, CheckPoint and TIS, the precursors to all modern firewall technologies. He has spent the last 20 years working with a primary focus and background within the ...