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Published inOct 2023
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ISBN-139781800568662
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Mark Simos
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Mark Simos

Mark Simos helps individuals and organizations meet cybersecurity, cloud, and digital transformation goals. Mark is the Lead Cybersecurity Architect for Microsoft where he leads the development of cybersecurity reference architectures, strategies, prescriptive planning roadmaps, best practices, and other security and Zero Trust guidance. Mark also co-chairs the Zero Trust working group at The Open Group and contributes to open standards and other publications like the Zero Trust Commandments. Mark has presented at numerous conferences including Black Hat, RSA Conference, Gartner Security and Risk Management, Microsoft Ignite and BlueHat, and Financial Executives International.
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Nikhil Kumar
Nikhil Kumar
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Nikhil Kumar

Nikhil is Founder at ApTSi with prior leadership roles at Price Waterhouse and other firms. He has led setup and implementation of Digital Transformation and enterprise security initiatives (such as PCI Compliance) and built out Security Architectures. An Engineer and Computer Scientist with a passion for biology, Nikhil is an expert in Security, Information, and Computer Architecture. Known for communicating to the board and implementing with engineers and architects, he is an MIT mentor, innovator and pioneer. Nikhil has authored numerous books, standards, and articles, and presented at conferences globally. He co-chairs The Zero Trust Working Group, a global standards initiative led by The Open Group.
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Introducing the Zero Trust Playbook Series

“The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.”

William Gibson

This book serves as both a standalone overview of Zero Trust for anyone (without reading anything else) as well as an introduction to the Zero Trust Playbook Series.

This Zero Trust Overview and Playbook Introduction book helps you understand the what, why, and how of Zero Trust and cybersecurity—what it means to you, why it is important to you, and how you benefit by implementing Zero Trust.

The playbook series also helps filter out unneeded details for each role while still providing the context of “why” people are being asked to do things differently than before. We did our best to streamline things that don’t matter to people while still providing a clear picture of the whole plan and how Zero Trust changes the organization around you.

Regardless of your role in an organization, this...

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Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800568662

Authors (2)

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Mark Simos

Mark Simos helps individuals and organizations meet cybersecurity, cloud, and digital transformation goals. Mark is the Lead Cybersecurity Architect for Microsoft where he leads the development of cybersecurity reference architectures, strategies, prescriptive planning roadmaps, best practices, and other security and Zero Trust guidance. Mark also co-chairs the Zero Trust working group at The Open Group and contributes to open standards and other publications like the Zero Trust Commandments. Mark has presented at numerous conferences including Black Hat, RSA Conference, Gartner Security and Risk Management, Microsoft Ignite and BlueHat, and Financial Executives International.
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Nikhil Kumar

Nikhil is Founder at ApTSi with prior leadership roles at Price Waterhouse and other firms. He has led setup and implementation of Digital Transformation and enterprise security initiatives (such as PCI Compliance) and built out Security Architectures. An Engineer and Computer Scientist with a passion for biology, Nikhil is an expert in Security, Information, and Computer Architecture. Known for communicating to the board and implementing with engineers and architects, he is an MIT mentor, innovator and pioneer. Nikhil has authored numerous books, standards, and articles, and presented at conferences globally. He co-chairs The Zero Trust Working Group, a global standards initiative led by The Open Group.
Read more about Nikhil Kumar