Eric Hampshire has worked at Cisco in the InfoSec department since 2000 and was involved with the evolution of Cisco's strong authentication service offerings throughout. First, he took over primary support of the SPA infrastructure in 2001 and began to advocate for smartcards in 2002. He peer coded the BYOT/CryptoID portal and client. He is now part of the Cisco internal PKI team providing PKI services to all facets of Cisco's business (manufacturing, IT, engineering, customers).