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Michael Wilcox

Michael Wilcox

Vice President, Office of the CISO

Michael Wilcox has more than 20 years of experience providing IT Security Leadership across a comprehensive portfolio of security environments. He has developed programs and centers of excellence for IT Security services including forensics, incident response, education and awareness programs, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, data loss prevention, enterprise information security architecture, compliance, encryption, identity & access management and disaster recovery. Michael has held CISO roles for a global Fortune 300 manufacturing company and the largest non-profit organization for cancer research.

By Michael Wilcox

Technical Manager’s Guide to Zero Trust: Applications

Technical Manager’s Guide to Zero Trust: Applications

Dec 15, 2022

ZT applications managers face significant challenges as they balance top-down executive mandates with the need to make progress on software issues.

Zero Trust Vendors to Watch, Know, Understand: ZT Applications

Zero Trust Vendors to Watch, Know, Understand: ZT Applications

Dec 13, 2022

CISOs expect application security to fully support ZT, while AppSec managers use the ZT framework to organize & prioritize investments and activities.

Technical Manager’s Guide to Zero Trust: Infrastructure

Technical Manager’s Guide to Zero Trust: Infrastructure

Dec 1, 2022

By identifying key priorities before a breach, ZT infrastructure managers can contribute meaningfully to the success of the organization’s ZT strategy.

Zero Trust Vendors to Watch, Know, Understand: ZT Infrastructure

Zero Trust Vendors to Watch, Know, Understand: ZT Infrastructure

Nov 29, 2022

Contemporary zero trust infrastructure often centers on outside-the-perimeter resources, challenging security leaders who are looking to establish resilient environments.

Technical Manager’s Guide to Zero Trust: Network

Technical Manager’s Guide to Zero Trust: Network

Oct 25, 2022

Zero trust networks provide visibility into key issues, including segmentation, secure access to data, applications, and identity and device resources.

Zero Trust Vendors to Watch, Know, Understand: ZT Network

Zero Trust Vendors to Watch, Know, Understand: ZT Network

Oct 18, 2022

The network plays a unique role in the shift from traditional perimeter-based security strategies to zero trust, spanning four key categories.

An Executive Guide to Zero Trust

An Executive Guide to Zero Trust

Oct 11, 2022

CISOs are organizing strategy around key intellectual property assets and the identity processes that grant access to and across core IT/ZT pillars.

Zero Trust Metrics

Zero Trust Metrics

Sep 16, 2022

Identifying and employing relevant, meaningful metrics builds support for ZT across the organization and enables CISOs to avoid “precision without accuracy”

The Path to Zero Trust

The Path to Zero Trust

Aug 30, 2022

This article defines a 10-step path to zero trust (ZT), spanning foundational and transitional activities and “deploy, monitor, and evolve” action steps.

The Zero Trust Rollout Notebook

The Zero Trust Rollout Notebook

Aug 23, 2022

This article identifies six key factors that contribute to a CISO’s ability to work with corporate stakeholders to roll out zero trust (ZT).

Key Zero Trust Technologies and Management Imperatives

Key Zero Trust Technologies and Management Imperatives

Aug 9, 2022

Identifying the 33 technologies and IT management practices that define a successful zero trust roadmap.

Zero Trust Business Objectives

Zero Trust Business Objectives

Aug 2, 2022

Zero trust (ZT) supports business objectives for three personas: senior executives, the CIO, and the CISO. Aligning strategy with these personas builds ZT support.

Zero Trust Interest and Investment Drivers

Zero Trust Interest and Investment Drivers

Jul 27, 2022

Leaders invest in zero trust to move beyond reactive risk management, rationalize investments, improve scale and speed to market, and gain efficiencies.

Zero Trust Sponsorship and Commitment

Zero Trust Sponsorship and Commitment

Jul 19, 2022

Zero Trust (ZT) success starts with executive commitment to risk, privacy, and compliance management as a goal . How do CISOs obtain sponsorship for ZT?

Defining Zero Trust

Defining Zero Trust

Jul 12, 2022

Zero trust is about access management, and is a journey that has no rigidly-defined endpoint