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John Watts
VP Analyst
John Watts provides insights on cybersecruity topics including network security, Security Service Edge (SSE), and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). John also covers emerging topics such as the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, zero trust strategy, and AI security topics including AI usage control (AI UC), AI agent security (e.g. OpenClaw and Anthropic CoWork), and frontier AI intiatives (e.g. Anthropic Glasswing and OpenAI Daybreak).
Previous experience
Prior to this, Mr. Watts built a security engineering and operations team from scratch focused on preventative security controls. He designed security solutions including network segmentation, intrusion prevention systems, cloud-based proxy controls, firewalls, enterprise mobility management, data loss prevention, identity and access management systems including SAML and OAuth/OpenID Connect, client and server antivirus, PCI and SOX compliance controls, and cloud security (SaaS and IaaS).
Professional background
Micron Technology, Sr. Manager IT/Lead Enterprise Security Architect, 12 years
Southwest Airlines, Software Architect, 4 years
Greenbrier and Russel, Senior Consultant, 3 years
Areas of coverage
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Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Education
B.B.A., Information Systems and International Business, Cum Laude, Baylor University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
How do we build and execute a zero trust strategy for the organization?
How do we use frontier AI initiatives like Glasswing or Daybreak and AI enabled tools to improve our cybersecurity defenses?
How to we evaluate, select, and deploy a SASE Platform or SSE provider (SWG, CASB, and ZTNA) for our organization?
How do we discover and control the use of AI and AI Agents within the organization?
How do we prepare and respond to the future and evolving cybersecurity threat landscape including ai-powered attacks?