Erez Ben-Ari is a long time technologist and journalist, and has worked in the information technology industry since 1991. During his career, Erez has provided security consulting and analysis services for some of the leading companies and organizations in the world; including Intel, IBM, Amdocs, CA, HP, NDS, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and many others. His work has gained national fame in Israel, and he has been featured in the press regularly. Having joined Microsoft in 2000, Erez has worked for many years in Microsoft's Development Center in Israel, where Microsoft's ISA Server was developed. Being a part of the release of ISA 2000, ISA 2004, and ISA 2006, he held several roles, including Operation engineering, Software testing, Web-based software design, and testing automation design. Now living in the United States, Erez still works for Microsoft, currently as a senior support engineer for UAG.
As a writer, Erez has been a journalist since 1995, and has written for some of the leading publications in Israel and in the United States. He has been a member of the Israeli National Press Office since 2001, and his personal blogs are read by thousands of visitors per month. Erez has also written, produced, and edited content for TV and radio, working for Israel's TV Channel 2, Ananey Communications, Radio Haifa, and other venues.
Most recently, Erez has completed his work on a courseware book titled Planning, deploying, and managing Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, in collaboration with several other authors.
Ran Dolev is a veteran of network security and SSL VPN industries. Ran has worked with the UAG product for more than twelve years, since the product's inception at the start-up company Whale Communications in 1998, where Ran was the first full-time developer of the product. After several years he moved to a services position as the EMEA Professional Services Manager for the team. In this role he has designed and delivered numerous IAG and UAG training sessions in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia, to customers, partners, and Microsoft employees. Ran also provides consulting and deployment services for many of Microsoft's enterprise UAG customers.