Barry J. Stiefel Professional Biography

Barry J. Stiefel ("Stee-ful") (CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+/CCSI, CISSP, NSA IAM, MCSE, CCNA, RCSA/RCSE/RCSI, FCSE) is the Founder and President of CPUG, The Check Point User Group (www.cpug.org).  He's been a Check Point implementer, consultant, courseware developer, author, speaker, and instructor since 1997 and provides the only Check Point training course that includes earning the CCSA and CCSE certifications right in the classroom.

He is coauthor on CCSA Next Generation Check Point Certified Security Administrator Study Guide, Check Point NG VPN-1/Firewall-1: Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting, and Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1, all by Syngress Publishing.  He is also the President of Information Engine, Inc. (www.InformationEngine.com) a consulting and technical services firm and was previously the President of the Windows NT Engineering Association.

He holds a B.S. and MBA from the University of California.  He lives and works in San Francisco.  In his lab, he has more firewalls and routers than he needs, but not as many as he wants.

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