From 2009 to 2019, Matthew Matchen (@matchenm) was a Symantec Certified Specialist in the Proxy Secure Web Gateway and Web Security Services, among having several other Symantec Network Protection product certifications as well as an accredited Symantec instructor for all on-premise Symantec Network Protection products.

Matthew assisted organizations with needs to integrate on-premise or cloud-based proxy solutions in project sizes ranging from small business to enterprise and government. With his expertise deploying equipment into complex network architectures and troubleshooting application, endpoint, and web server issues he actively contributed to Symantec Connect forums and provided feedback to on KB articles to the Symantec Knowledge Base and Education Teams.

Matthew Matchen activated SecurityByProxy.com to be a resource portal where he shares his Symantec ProxySG best practices guidance and information related to increasing an understanding of fundamental proxy concepts to pinpointing complex application flows and their impact by being proxied.