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Matt Conran
Network, Security & Cloud Specialist

Matt Conran has more than 17 years of networking industry with entrepreneurial start-ups, government organizations and others. He is a lead Network Architect and successfully delivered major global greenfield service provider and data center networks. Core skill set includes advanced data center, service provider, security, and virtualization technologies. He loves to travel and has a passion for landscape photography.

Evolution of the Network Architecture & How It has Affected Security, Part 1

Web Security Zone | December 28, 2017 by Matt Conran

The History of Network Architecture The goal of any network and its underlying infrastructure is simple. It is to securely transport the end user’s traffic to support an application of some kind without any packet drops which may trigger application performance problems. Here a key…

Online Security: Application Security Testing – Part 2

Web Security Zone | December 4, 2017 by Matt Conran

Part 1 in this series looked at Online Security and the flawed protocols it lays upon. Online Security is complex and its underlying fabric was built without security in mind. Here we shall be exploring aspects of Application Security Testing. We live in a world…

Online Security: The Underlying Infrastructure – Part 1

Web Security Zone | November 20, 2017 by Matt Conran

Technology Revolutionized A plethora of valuable solutions now run on web-based applications. One could argue that web applications are the forefront of the world. More importantly, we must equip them with appropriate online security tools to barricade against the rising web vulnerabilities. With the right…

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