Protecting Critical Infrastructure In Hybrid Clouds – Dan Perkins, Harry Sverdlove – PSW #663
Customers are concerned about protecting critical services such as Active Directory from compromise. It's game over if AD is compromised. AD environments can be heterogeneous; public cloud, on-prem data centers, clients, servers. It is operationally complex to protect this environment while ensuring smooth business operations How do you deal with changes in the environment? New apps? App updates? New systems? Harry will demo key points of Edgewise's answer to use software identity for microsegmentation and cloud workload protection.
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Guests
Harry Sverdlove, Chief Technologist for Secure Workload Communication, Zscaler, Inc. (formerly Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Edgewise Networks), was previously CTO of Carbon Black, where he was the key driving force behind their endpoint security platform. Earlier in his career, Harry was principal research scientist for McAfee, Inc. (formerly Chief Scientist of SiteAdvisor), where he supervised the architecture of crawlers, spam detectors and link analyzers. Prior to that, Harry was director of engineering at Compuware Corporation (formerly NuMega), and principal architect for Rational Software, where he designed the core automation engine for Rational Robot.
Dan is the product manager focused on building the Zscaler Workload Protection (Edgewise) platform into the best microsegmentation control on the market. His background is in virtualization systems, storage, and cybersecurity.