About
Twenty years of one problem
Concise Networking Technology exists because network access control is still done badly almost everywhere — bought, half-deployed, and left in monitor mode.
Concise Networking Technology is a network security firm based in Los Angeles, CA. We design and deploy the systems that decide which devices and people are allowed onto a network — and, crucially, that actually enforce the decision.
That focus is narrower than most firms advertise, and deliberately so. Identity-driven access control is genuinely hard to get right: it touches switching, certificates, endpoint posture, directory services, and the patience of everyone whose laptop stops working when it is done carelessly. Doing it well is a specialist discipline, not a product you install.
Our founder has been doing this specific work since the late 1990s — through Cisco, a global bank's authentication and risk program, national retail infrastructure, and most recently federal and defense environments.
Track record
Where the experience comes from
The founder's career to date. These are prior roles and employers, not clients of Concise Networking Technology.
2022 – present
Senior Cisco ISE security specialist on federal, defense, and intelligence programs.
2009 – 2022
Senior information security specialist in authentication and risk management at a global bank — enterprise BCP across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.
2007 – 2009
Senior network security architect for a national retailer: security design across 1,200+ stores and 15 distribution centers, and PCI-DSS payment transaction security.
1997 – 2007
Network security engineering and architecture roles at Cisco Systems, Exodus Communications, Altera, and PeopleSoft.
1988 – 1996
United States Navy — Data Systems Technician, E5. Honorably discharged.
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