Summary
Hamid Talebi is a cybersecurity and network engineering educator and practitioner with nine years of professional experience and an MS in Network Security. As a BCIT faculty member he teaches network and enterprise security topics while publishing practical courses and open textbooks on FortiGate and Palo Alto and a FortiSIEM Udemy course. He has deep hands-on expertise in routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, MPLS), application delivery (F5), firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet), SIEMs (QRadar, Splunk, FortiSIEM) and traffic analytics (Bro/Security Onion, Graylog). Previously he delivered security architecture and automation at Bell and built honeynets, virtualized labs and cloud networks for the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, demonstrating strong lab-to-production experience. Hamid is also the author of ten books (including four coauthored with a prominent Iranian IT figure), a YouTuber on network programming with Python, and a practitioner who often bridges academic instruction with real-world incident detection and network automation.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Network Security, Master of Science (MS) Network Security at Iran University of Science and Technology
Bachelor's degree IT Engineering, Bachelor's degree IT Engineering at Islamic Azad University
English, Persian