Ian Foo, CTO and EVP of Product for CyberRatings.org, MEF’s testing and certification partner, details the rise of cybercrime, particularly state-sponsored cyber threats, and the critical need for securing operational technology. He discusses the role of SASE certification in mitigating these risks, highlighting its comprehensive testing methods for malware, exploits, and evasions. How does third-party certification enhance vendor trust and validate enterprise security and performance amid rising cyber threats?

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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Ian Foo of CyberRatings.org:

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• How is the cyber-crime space evolving?  
  
  
• Which industry opportunities and challenges are key in the SASE arena?  
  
  
• How does CyberRatings.org’s testing for MEF SASE certification differ from other types of testing in the industry?  
  
  
• What value does testing and certification bring to the table for SASE vendors, service providers, and enterprise end users?
  

Learn More

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• Read Pascal’s recent article, 5 Reasons Enterprises Should Demand Certified SASE Offerings 
  
  
• Read the CyberRatings.org blog post on The Hidden Danger of Evasions
  
  
• Also listen to CyberRatings.org’s Chairman and CEO, Vikram Phatak, discuss the current cybercrime ecosystem in the podcast episode, Ransomware-as-a-Service: Securing the Enterprise.
  
  
• Explore MEF’s certifications for SASE services.
  
  
• Read MEF’s State of the Industry Report: SASE. 
  

About Our Guest

Ian Foo, CTO and EVP of Product, CyberRatings.org

Ian Foo has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, network engineering, and product development. Previously, he was Senior Product Manager at Google, focusing on Cloud Networking and special projects within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). There he drove vision, strategy, roadmap, and development of networking and routing at global scale to create platforms enabling effective enterprise cloud transformation for Google’s customers. This included leading the cross-Google effort to bring IP multicast to Google Cloud, unblocking Cloud transformation for Capital Markets, Financial Services, and Media/Broadcast/Entertainment industries.

Prior to Google he was Director of Product & GTM for Service Providers at Commvault where he led product management for Service Provider transformation from traditional on-premises solutions to Cloud SaaS based models and platforms. Earlier in his career he held senior product and technical leadership positions focusing on security, enterprise solutions, service provider solutions, data center networking, global scale routing, and Software Defined Networking (SDN) at several global technology companies including Huawei, Cisco, and BBN/GTE Internetworking/Verizon.

Ian currently holds 13 U.S. patents that include methods for creating software defined ordered service patterns in communications networks, method for selectively manipulating control traffic to improve network performance, and techniques for providing security protection in wireless networks.

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