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Nat Smith is a Vice President security analyst in the Technology and Service Provider (TSP) division of Gartner, researching emerging technology and trends (ETT) for technology product leaders. Mr. Smith researches technology, markets and trends impacting network security especially artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). This focus includes secure access services edge (SASE), network detection and response (NDR), network firewalls, firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS), security services edge (SSE), secure web gateways (SWG), zero trust network access (ZTNA), zero trust, advanced threats and cloud security. He has more than 20 years of tech experience in product leadership positions with security, networking and communications vendors including AT&T, Fortinet, Intel, McAfee, Riverbed, Symantec and T-Mobile.

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