Sean Costello is an expert in large scale network security design, architecture, and deployment with 25 years of experience. Sean has spent more than half of his career working directly for Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. in roles such as the very first Dallas TAC Escalations Engineer in 1998, Professional Services Engineer, Security (Sales) Engineer, and ultimately as a member of the Solution Center where he managed customer facing functionality and performance Proof of Concept testing efforts. The remainder of his career was spent working with a large variety of technologies including, but not limited to various platforms and distributions of UNIX along with more recent technologies like Openstack, VMWare NSX, and AWS. Experience also includes content security products like DLP, AV/Malware, emulation, and Content Inspection solutions.