By Eric Trexler, Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Palo Alto Networks Today’s zero trust conversation has matured since it was originally popularized in 2010 by John Kindervag, one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts and a Palo Alto Networks alum. Although the urgency and capabilities for zero trust have exploded in t...

The General Services Administration has named 14 representatives from public and private sectors as inaugural members of a federal panel that will advise and offer recommendations to the GSA administrator, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s board and agencies with regard to the secure adoption of cloud computing products a...

The government contracting industry witnessed a number of strategic executive movements in 2022, including appointments and promotions to C-level roles as well as leadership changes meant to spur growth in public sector-focused practices. As the year draws to a close, Executive Mosaic‘s editorial team is sharing people moves that dominated the...

Eric Trexler, formerly a vice president at Forcepoint, has assumed the role of senior VP for the U.S. public sector unit at Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. Trexler led domestic and international sales functions within Forcepoint’s global governments and critical infrastructure business for more than four ye...

Marc Surette, a senior sales executive within the U.S. public sector, has joined Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) as regional vice president for the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and Foreign Service Institute, according to his LinkedIn post. Surette previously worked at UiPath (NYSE: PATH) as regional VP for DOD and was responsible for growing t...

Derrick Pledger, vice president and director of the Digital Modernization Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said establishing deep strategic partnerships with other companies could help facilitate the development of new capabilities and platforms that could help address mission challenges facing federal agencies. Pledger wrote that there are three...

Google’s cloud business has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to move its Secure Cloud Management platform into the production phase and implement the offering across DIU. The SCM offering, which Google Cloud developed with Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), adopts the zero trust approach and works to enable DIU users to gain...

Raynor Dahlquist, formerly a vice president at Palo Alto Networks, has returned to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) as a senior VP in charge of overseeing a cyber strategy for the management and information technology consultancy. She will work as part of Booz Allen’s national security segment and manage cyber operations support to defense and...

ExecutiveBiz featured Mike Hurt, vice president of Federal at Palo Alto Networks, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. He talked about the company culture and growth strategy, the end-point security challenges for federal agencies, cyber threats to information technology platforms as well as the implementation of zero t...

Dana Barnes, senior vice president of Palo Alto Networks’ Public Sector and 2021 Wash100 Award winner, has published his first article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Wednesday In his first piece, GovCon Expert Dana Barnes provided a breakdown of the four pillars for federal agencies to create a common foundation...