About

Vijay Kumar N is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, with over 17 years of experience in requirements analysis, software architecture, design, and development of Telecom, Networking, Security, and Cloud-based applications. He has a strong hands-on knowledge of networking, security protocols, user plane/fast path, packet processing, open source, DPDK, fd.io VPP, cyber security, cloud/data-center security, cryptography, IPSEC VPNs, GRE VPNs, L3 VPNs & L2 VPNs. Vijay has good knowledge of security vulnerabilities, security risks, NIST Cyber Security framework, cyber security guidelines, FIPS security standards, threat modeling, secure architecture/design & secure coding, OWASP tools, malware, TCP/IP attacks, threats & prevention. He is experienced in the development of IPSEC, IKEv1, IKEv2, PKI, CRMF, CMPv2, LDAP, CRL, OCSP, GDOI, SSL, TLS, RSA, DH, ECC, NHRP, GRE, EAP, Diameter, Radius, IMS, VoIP, SIP, SDP & SNMP protocols. Vijay has a good understanding of cloud & data center security, NG Firewall, CASB, SIEM, security analytics, SeGW, routing, telecom, DC technologies like VPLS, EVPN, MPLS, DCI, VxLAN, etc. He has recently worked on the Blue Coat Cloud SeGW solution for enterprise cloud users, DSVPN, Dynamic PKI, IPSEC HA (IKE & PKI), A2A VPN, IKEv2, DH HW, and has made significant IETF/IPR contributions. Vijay is proficient in C, C++, Core Java, and has expertise in OS scripting in Linux, Solaris, VxWorks, Win, LUA, Python. He has worked with various cryptographic tools such as AES, DES, 3DES, MD5, SHA1, SHA2, ECDH, ECDSA, DH, RSA, DSA, ECDH, X509, X500, CMPv2, LDAP, CRL, PEM, ASN1, PKCS8, PKCS10, PKCS5, and OCSP. Vijay has worked with a range of software development tools such as Codenomicon, Vtunes, ASAN, IXIA, Nessus, NMap, Peach, AppScan, Landslide,