Ed Koehler Ed Koehler is a Distinguished Principal Security Engineer in the Office of CTO at Extreme Networks. He has been in the communications and networking industry for 20+ years. Ten of those years he spent as a Senior Technology Architect for R&D within the CTO division of Nortel. His area specialties are, IPv6, Multicast, Digital Identity and Network Security as well as Voice and Video communications and Data Science. He has several patents in these areas. Ed joined with Extreme (via Avaya) in August of 2010 as a Senior Data Solutions Architect specializing in Virtualized Data Centers and associated technologies including compute and storage. Currently, he is serving this role at the Global geography level as a Distinguished Principal Engineer. He is an IEEE member and was instrumental in the development of some of the core technology used in IEEE 802.1aq “Shortest Path Bridging.”
Ed Koehler
The Network is Key to Securing the Everywhere Perimeter
Ed Koehler | | distributed architecture, Network Security, perimeter, stealth networking, virtual network overlays
In light of surging ransomware cases and recent high-profile cyberattacks like those on SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, and meat supplier JBS, enterprise security teams may fall into the trap of thinking, “more defenses are better.” They implement an arsenal of point solutions, hoping their bases will be covered. The reality is, ... Read More
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