Fortinet’s EVP of Products and CMO, John Maddison, delves into the main drivers in the cybersecurity threat landscape today, the complexity they’re creating, and the universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions enterprises need to solve them. Can SASE create an integrated zero trust architecture across the entire infrastructure in a hybrid world where applications continue to move?

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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with John Maddison of Fortinet:

• How are networking and cybersecurity converging with SASE and what’s the next step?
  
  
• Can vendor and platform consolidation help and how do we get there? 
  
  
• How does Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) fit in and should it really be Zero Trust Application Access?  
  
  
• Can SASE integrate cloud and on-premise solutions to meet the challenges of a hybrid world? 
  
  
• Where do companies need the most help to ensure their network architecture runs correctly, efficiently, and securely and how can we help?
  

About Our Guest

John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO, Fortinet

John Maddison has more than 30 years of executive management experience in the Cybersecurity and Telecommunications Industries. He joined Fortinet in 2012 to lead Cloud/SaaS Security development teams and is now the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP Products.

John previously held executive leadership positions at Trend Micro focused on Advanced Threat Research and Cloud Delivered Security Services. He started his career with Lucent Technologies Mobile Division, Hewlett Packard Software and Cable & Wireless Global Networking.

John holds a B.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Plymouth University, United Kingdom.

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