Ryan Gillis, a cybersecurity executive, has joined cloud security company Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) as senior vice president and global head of government partnerships. In this role, he will build and oversee a team focused on advancing Zscaler’s policy, operational and technical relationships with governments worldwide, including improving collaborati...

Quantum computing is not a new field by any means, but its impact and potential are still largely unknown. In the next few decades, experts believe quantum developments will have significant, game-changing implications in a myriad of fields, and the capabilities quantum unlocks will be critical for the country’s technological power. However, quant...

Syam Nair, a former executive at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been named chief technology officer at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) in a move that takes effect May 24. Zscaler said Tuesday that Nair will serve as executive vice president for research and development in addition to CTO. The 25-year technology industry veteran...

Technology industry executive Laura Fritzlen has been named vice president of public sector alliances and channels at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), GovCon Wire has learned. She will be responsible for expanding strategic partner relationships and alliances with public sector organizations to help strengthen collaboration and drive growth at the cloud securi...

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...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, chief compliance officer and head of global government affairs at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), discussed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable how government agencies were able to move to cloud amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the help from the Federal Risk and Aut...

A network access service developed by Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) has received a provisional authorization to operate at impact level 5 from the Department of Defense as confirmed by a DOD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide release. The company said Thursday the IL5 authorization enables Zscaler Private Access zero trust platform to handle governm...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 30, 2021 — Two of Zscaler‘s (Nasdaq: ZS) cloud software products were granted “Ready” status under the new State Risk and Authorization Management Program in addition to the software as a service provider being named an authorized StateRAMP vendor, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 15. StateRAMP seeks to standa...