Earl Carter, CCNA, is a Security Research Engineer and member of the Security Technologies Assessment Team (STAT) for Cisco Systems, Inc. He performs security evaluations on numerous Cisco products, including everything from the PIX® Firewall and VPN solutions to Cisco CallManager and other VoIP products. Earl started with Cisco doing research for Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System (formerly NetRanger) and Cisco Secure Scanner (formerly NetSonar).