About Packet.Zip

Aamir Lakhani is a leading senior security strategist responsible for providing IT security solutions to major enterprises and government organizations. He creates technical security strategies and leads security implementation projects for Fortune 500 companies, and has designed offensive counter-defense measures for the Department of Defense and national intelligence agencies.

His areas of expertise include adversarial AI, cyber defense, mobile application threats, malware management, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) research, and the dark web. He is the author or contributor of several books, and has appeared on FOX Business News, National Public Radio, and other media outlets as an expert on cybersecurity.

Writing under the pseudonym Packet.Zip, he operates this blog. In its list of 46 Federal Technology Experts to Follow on Twitter, Forbes described Aamir Lakhani as "a blogger, InfoSec specialist, super hero…and all around good guy."

Keith Rayle brings over 20 years of governance and operational security experience to Packet.Zip. Executive-level security consultant with experience creating and managing corporate security programs, board-level reporting, and global business unit security integration. He has acted as CISO for large corporations, led large multi-project security programs, and advised Fortune 100 executives across retail, aerospace, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and government.

His regulatory experience spans PCI, SOX, FFIEC, HIPAA, and NERC CIP, with framework depth in ISO/IEC 27001/27002, NIST, FISMA, and OCTAVE. Before civilian life he served a 21-year military career that included time as a nuclear weapons technician, threat officer, and OH-58/AH-1/UH-60 helicopter pilot.

Joseph Muniz is a security researcher, architect, and author with more than two decades of experience designing security solutions for Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies. He spent many years at Cisco Systems as a security/technical solutions architect and has more recently held a security leadership role at Microsoft. He founded the popular blog 'The Security Blogger,' is a frequent speaker at conferences such as RSA and DEF CON, and co-authored several books with Aamir Lakhani, including 'Security Operations Center,' 'The Modern Security Operations Center,' and 'Investigating the Cyber Breach.'

Aman Diwakar is a cybersecurity professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose background spans security engineering and network defense. A U.S. Army veteran, he holds the CompTIA Security+ certification and completed Stanford University's Advanced Cybersecurity Program, and has worked in security engineering leadership roles. He has written on building defensible network and application architecture and on security monitoring.

Anthony Giandomenico is a Senior Security Strategist and Researcher at Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs, with over 20 years of experience in information security. His work focuses on threat research, defensive strategy, and threat-intelligence collaboration across security operations center (SOC) teams. He is a regular speaker and commentator on emerging attack trends, with articles and interviews appearing in outlets such as CSO Online, TechTarget, Infosecurity Magazine, and DataBreachToday.

Kayla Matthews is a Pittsburgh-based technology journalist who writes on cybersecurity, data privacy, productivity, and emerging technology. She is the owner and editor of the blogs Productivity Bytes and Productivity Theory, and a prolific freelance contributor whose byline has appeared in WIRED, VentureBeat, The Next Web, CyberNews, Cyber Security Hub, CPO Magazine, and Security Boulevard, among others. Her cybersecurity coverage spans data breaches, online privacy, IoT security, and AI.