About the Author

Abd El-Monem A. El-Bawab is a systems engineer with a passion for security. He has about 3 years of experience in the IT field. He is MCITP 2008 Server Administrator, MCSA 2012, MCSE Server Infrastructure, MCSE Private Cloud, and ITIL certified.

He has considerable experience in Untangle's Firewall, TMG, McAfee Sidewinder, Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Backup Exec, Hyper-V, System Center Suite, ESXi, Citrix XenServer, VDI, Windows Servers, Active Directory, Exchange Server, Office 365, and SMART Service Desk.

You can follow him on Twitter at @Eng_Monem and visit his blog at amagsmb.wordpress.com.

I would like to thank my mother, brothers, sisters, and all my family members for their continuous support, encouragement, and understanding. Without their support, I wouldn't be able to produce this work.

Special thanks to Mahmoud Magdy for his encouragement and friendship. I would also like to thank Khaled Eldosuky and Ahmed Abou Zaid for their efforts to increase the technical content in the Arab world.

Also, I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the publication of this book, including the publisher, technical reviewers, and editors.