Mohamed Alibi is a system and network administrator for bioinformatics research computer infrastructure at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis. He received his master's degree diploma in network system and telecommunication from the Faculty of Sciences, Tunis El-Manar. His did his master's graduation internship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States) from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Institution for Genomic Biology, where he helped develop and adapt a data transfer solution to be used in bioinformatics research centers across Africa.

He started his career in 2011 as a technical support assistant and was promoted in 2012. He is currently part of a network project called H3ABioNet that helps African nodes enhance their bio-informatics research capacities. He was the co-chair of the Infrastructure Working Group, a group that helps to develop and enhance the computer infrastructure of project nodes. Since 2015, he has been training at the technical workshops held at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) as a system administrator of the African Nodes. Since 2014, he has also been a computer science professor at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sidi Thabet.

Toni de la Fuente is the principal solutions engineer for the Americas at Alfresco. He is the author of Backup and Disaster Recovery White Paper and Alfresco Security Best Practices.

He has more than 17 years of experience in security architecture, systems administration, ECM architecture, cloud computing, and monitoring and scalability projects. He has a variety of certifications, such as the LPI Linux certification, Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), ITIL v3, and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Recently, he did an advanced training course in computer forensics and is a collaborator to the UOC University.

Toni is a declared open source enthusiast and computer security lover, having founded phpRADmin, a security open source project in 2006 and Alfresco BART (a backup tool). He has participated in other open source-related projects, such as Madrid Wireless, Linux Fedora, OpenSolaris Hispano, and multiple Alfresco-related plugins, such as the Nagios plugin. His name is mentioned in different books on network security, among others. He regularly teaches, conducts lectures, courses, and conferences in events in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. He has also contributed to the world of open source for more than 13 years with his blog at http://byx.com and through Twitter at https://twitter.com/toniblyx.

This is the third book he has contributed to Packt Publishing. We also collaborated with him on Building a Home Security System with BeagleBone and Icinga Network Monitoring.