Practical Approaches to Implementing Zero Trust in Your Private Cloud

Nir Zuk brings a wealth of network security expertise and industry experience to Palo Alto Networks. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks, Nir was CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure, a pioneer in intrusion prevention and detection appliances. Nir was also a principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies, and was one of the developers of stateful inspection technology.

Mukesh Gupta is VP Product for Software Firewalls at Palo Alto Networks where he leads the product strategy and roadmap for the VM-Series and the CN-Series products. Prior to this, Mukesh was VP of Product at Illumio. He joined Illumio as the first product manager and took the product from an early prototype to an enterprise-grade disruptive solution that’s deployed at scale at many Fortune 100 enterprises. In his last 2 years at Illumio, he drove Illumio’s container strategy and roadmap. Before joining Illumio, Mukesh was co-founder and CEO of LocalCircles, a social networking startup. Prior to founding LocalCircles, he managed NetScreen and SRX appliances at Juniper. Before moving to product management, a profession he is extremely passionate about, Mukesh spent 8+ years in engineering roles at Tropos Networks and Nokia/Checkpoint. During his time at Nokia, he authored a few RFCs and co-chaired the VRRP WG at IETF. Mukesh is a proven innovator with 30+ issued/pending patents he filed throughout his career.

Dennis has a full career in telecommunications, networking, enterprise applications both traditional and cloud based, product management, and leadership expertise. Dennis’ career began at Bell Northern Research, the research and development arm of Northern Telecom and Bell Canada as a Hardware and Firmware Senior Architect and Design Engineer, where he developed high speed networks and call processing platforms for next generation Meridian products. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Dennis played key executive roles at Expandable Software and GoDigital Networks in taking system level products to market; Godigital Networks resulting in the exit acquisition by CTDI. Dennis also played a key role founding and initial funding of Intera Systems designing and developing products based on terabit multifunctional networking fabrics. Dennis’ background includes architectural product design, finance, product management, marketing and a proven track record of leadership. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo and post engineering studies in software methodologies at Stanford University, neural-networks at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Product Management credentials from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Peggy Bresnick-Kendler has been a professional writer for the past 30 years. She has worked as an editor, publicist and school district technology coordinator. During the past decade, Peggy has worked on UBM TechWeb financial services technology-centered projects on behalf of companies that represent some of the most prominent names in the insurance, banking, and capital markets technology fields. Peggy has written a recurring department featured in Insurance & Technology since 1996, and she has produced a recurring department for Bank Systems & Technology since 2003. From 1998 through 2001, she served as editor-in-chief of School Technology Market Report, a bimonthly newsletter for school district technology leaders. Peggy formerly was manager of communications for the American Insurance Association's Service Group. She has also worked in the IT area of Dun & Bradstreet, where she reported directly to the director of IS planning and consulting. Peggy holds a Bachelor's degree in English from Skidmore College, a Master's degree in education from Sacred Heart University and a Master's degree in educational technology from Fairfield University.