Patrick Lloyd

Patrick Lloyd is a senior solutions architect for the Cisco Security Professional Services team. He focuses on identity and access management, including segmentation, network access control, identity exchange, and identity integration for "smart" architectures in the continental United States and Canada region. Patrick has worked in technology delivery at Cisco for 16 years, including stints in the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and working as a routing and switching design engineer, security design engineer, and security solutions architect. His focus is guiding customers through introducing structured approaches to increase visibility and identity exchange to minimize business risk and lateral attack vectors.

Previously, Patrick worked in higher education and defense industries in system administration and operational roles. Patrick has extensive experience in integrating identity into various industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and defense. Utilizing Cisco technologies and the methodologies covered in this book to build a layered security model, Patrick has architected segmentation architectures, including smart building architectures, for more than 100 customers. Patrick’s technology focus is on TrustSec for segmentation, analyzing traffic flow with Cisco Secure Network Analytics/Stealthwatch for development of segmentation policies, implementing firewall and remote access architectures, and securing critical building systems through policy and segmentation while maintaining availability. Patrick resides in Durham, North Carolina, where he teaches self-defense and is an instrument-rated private pilot when not consumed with technology.