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CCZT Contributors

CCZT Overview
Certificate of Competence in Zero Trust
We extend our appreciation to the individuals whose dedication and expertise have made the development of the CCZT exam possible. Each of the contributors have volunteered their time and resources, leaving a mark on this certification. Their collaborative efforts and commitment to excellence have been instrumental in shaping the course content and ensuring its quality.

Contributors to the CCZT receive a digital badge that demonstrates their expertise in Zero Trust principles and their collaboration in developing a CSA certification. The digital badge recognizes their achievement and can be displayed online on social media, resumes, etc.

If you have any questions or have interest in participating in future course or certification development, you can email CSA at [email protected].

Developers

Clément Betacorne
Clément Betacorne
Azure Cloud Solution Specialist, One Step Beyond Group

Clément Betacorne

Azure Cloud Solution Specialist, One Step Beyond Group

Shruti Kulkarni
Shruti Kulkarni
Information Security Architect, Elexon

Shruti Kulkarni

Information Security Architect, Elexon

I am a security professional with experience across various domains of security. I work in defining organisation’s security strategy, security architecture and security practices. Translating business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security processes enabled by security technologies and services. I work on gap analysis, design, implementation and...

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Michael Roza
Michael Roza
Risk, Audit, Control and Compliance Professional at EVC

Michael Roza

Risk, Audit, Control and Compliance Professional at EVC

Since 2012, Michael Roza has been a pivotal member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) family. He has contributed to over 125 projects, as a Lead Author or Author/Contributor and many more as a Reviewer/Editor.

Michael's extensive contributions encompass critical areas including Artificial Intelligence, Zero Trust/Software Defined Perimeter, Internet of Things, Top Threats, Cloud Control Matrix, DevSecOps, and Key Management. His lea...

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Mark Schlicting
Mark Schlicting
Information Security Architect at BPM

Mark Schlicting

Information Security Architect at BPM

Heinrich Smit
Heinrich Smit
CISO & Risk Management at Semperis

Heinrich Smit

CISO & Risk Management at Semperis

Heinrich is a recognized Information Protection and Zero Trust expert who started out in Law, and pivoted to his love of technology during the Tech Boom. He has led teams at software innovators and large financial institutions, has authored entire Information Security Policy stores, and has protected data at both 280,000 seat regulated enterprises and SAAS-based startup unicorns. He is passionate about Privacy and Zero Trust, as well as Def...

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Prasad T
Prasad T
Head - Information Security at Verse Innovation

Prasad T

Head - Information Security at Verse Innovation

Editors

Ledy M. Eng
Ledy M. Eng
Cloud Security Engineer

Ledy M. Eng

Cloud Security Engineer

Roland Kissoon
Roland Kissoon
Senior Specialist - Cyber Security at Microsoft

Roland Kissoon

Senior Specialist - Cyber Security at Microsoft

Roland has over 25 years of progressive extensive experience with increasing responsibilities in multiple security domains. He is responsible for security strategy and direction, industry trends, threat landscape, and best practices, as well as being a trusted adviser to senior management and customer executives. Along with his cloud, network, cyber security and physical security experience, Roland has worked on projects designing, developi...

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Ross Kovelman
Cloud Cybersecurity & Risk Management, Merck

Ross Kovelman

Cloud Cybersecurity & Risk Management, Merck

Richard Lee
Richard Lee
Director Architecture / Infrastructure Architect / Security Architect / Cloud Architect at R Lee Associates

Richard Lee

Director Architecture / Infrastructure Architect / Security Architect / Cloud Architect at R Lee Associates

Robert D. Morris
Robert D. Morris
Lead Cyber Security Architect at MITRE

Robert D. Morris

Lead Cyber Security Architect at MITRE

A cybersecurity expert with 16 years of experience ranging from incident response, forensics, solution engineering, risk management, compliance, security architecture, and leadership in industries such as high-tech, defense contracting, and public sector.

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Alexander Stein
IT Cybersecurity Specialist, NIST

Alexander Stein

IT Cybersecurity Specialist, NIST

Reviewers

Amit Butail
Amit Butail
Vice President Technology Risk and Control Evaluation

Amit Butail

Vice President Technology Risk and Control Evaluation

Amit is a cybersecurity and risk management leader with over 20 years of progressive experience.

Amit is actively involved as a Volunteer in the Cyber Security and CRISC of ISACA working group. He has been a working as a contributing author and helped for the research publication on DevSecOps Pillar 2 - Collaboration, Key Management Lifecycle Best Practices , CCM v4 - PCI DSS v4 mapping project of CSA. Volunteering as a Subject Matter...

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Donald Byers
Donald Byers
Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Donald Byers

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Shinesa Cambric
Shinesa Cambric
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Shinesa Cambric

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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Madhav Chablani
Consulting CIO, TippingEdge Consulting

Madhav Chablani

Consulting CIO, TippingEdge Consulting

Sky Hackett
Sky Hackett
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

Sky Hackett

Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

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Michael J Herndon
IT Senior Compliance Manager, Bayer A.G.

Michael J Herndon

IT Senior Compliance Manager, Bayer A.G.

Adish Jain
Adish Jain
Manager - Information Security, Policybazaar

Adish Jain

Manager - Information Security, Policybazaar

Reto Kaeser
Reto Kaeser
Co-Founder & CTO, Astarios

Reto Kaeser

Co-Founder & CTO, Astarios

Ronald Kearns
Ronald Kearns
Principal Security Architect & Engineer, Charter Communications

Ronald Kearns

Principal Security Architect & Engineer, Charter Communications

John Kindervag
John Kindervag
Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy at ON2IT Cybersecurity

John Kindervag

Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy at ON2IT Cybersecurity

John Kindervag joined ON2IT in March of 2021 as Senior Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy and ON2IT Global Fellow. Previously he was Field CTO at Palo Alto Networks and VicePresident and Principal AnalystatForrester Research. John is considered one of the world's foremost cybersecurity experts. He is best known for creating the revolutionary Zero TrustModel of Cybersecurity. John also serves as an executive advisor to Cloud Security A...

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Abbas Kudrati
Abbas Kudrati
Director – APAC Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, Microsoft

Abbas Kudrati

Director – APAC Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, Microsoft

Abbas Kudrati, a long-time cybersecurity practitioner and CISO, is Microsoft Asia’s Lead Chief Cybersecurity Advisor for the Security Solutions Area. In addition to his work at Microsoft, he serves as an executive advisor to Deakin University, LaTrobe University, HITRUST ASIA, EC Council ASIA, and several security and technology start-ups. He supports the broader security community through his work with ISACA Chapters and student mentorship...

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Naresh Kurada
Naresh Kurada
Director – Cloud Security Engineering, Deloitte

Naresh Kurada

Director – Cloud Security Engineering, Deloitte

Matt Lee
Matt Lee
Senior Director of Security and Compliance at Pax8

Matt Lee

Senior Director of Security and Compliance at Pax8

Dr. Ron Martin
Dr. Ron Martin
Professor of Practice at Capitol Technology University

Dr. Ron Martin

Professor of Practice at Capitol Technology University

Dr. Martin is a Professor of Practice at Capitol Technology University. His work at Capitol Technology University is in the following functional areas Critical Infrastructure, Industrial Control System Security, Identity, Credential, and Access Management. Ron has relationships with a diverse mix of businesses. He serves as a board of directors for many profit and non-profit organizations. Ron retired from the United States (U. S.) Army in ...

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Dr. Matthew Meersman
Principal Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE & PhD Student

Dr. Matthew Meersman

Principal Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE & PhD Student

Vani Murthy
Vani Murthy
Sr. Information Security Compliance Advisor, Akamai Technologies

Vani Murthy

Sr. Information Security Compliance Advisor, Akamai Technologies

Vani has 20+ years of IT experience in the areas such as Security, Risk, Compliance, Cloud services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) architecture

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Aunudrei Oliver
Aunudrei Oliver
Director, Customer Experience Product Management at CISCO

Aunudrei Oliver

Director, Customer Experience Product Management at CISCO

Philip Pearson
Philip Pearson
Principal Security Architect, Aqua Security Software Inc.

Philip Pearson

Principal Security Architect, Aqua Security Software Inc.

Andrew Radle
Andrew Radle
Principal Cybersecurity Architect

Andrew Radle

Principal Cybersecurity Architect

Andy Radle joined MITRE in 2018 where he is a principal cybersecurity architect following a 28-year career at Hewlett-Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Andy has worked with multiple MITRE sponsors to develop architectures and strategies for secure cloud migration, zero trust implementation, and enterprise security control implementation. While at HP/HPE, Andy most recently held management roles in Governance, Risk, and Compliance and ...

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Karthik Ramamurthy
Karthik Ramamurthy
Senior Security Manager, KNEIP (Deutsche Börse Group)

Karthik Ramamurthy

Senior Security Manager, KNEIP (Deutsche Börse Group)

Sakthiswaran Rangaraju
Sakthiswaran Rangaraju
Product Security Leader, Pure Storage

Sakthiswaran Rangaraju

Product Security Leader, Pure Storage

Ashwindi Siddhi
Ashwindi Siddhi
Sr. Principal Product Security Advisor, Dell Technologies

Ashwindi Siddhi

Sr. Principal Product Security Advisor, Dell Technologies

Shain Singh
Shain Singh
Principal Security Architect, F5

Shain Singh

Principal Security Architect, F5

David Skrdla
David Skrdla
Senior IT Auditor, Cameron Group Services

David Skrdla

Senior IT Auditor, Cameron Group Services

Juan Carlos (Charlie) Soto
Juan Carlos (Charlie) Soto
vCISO

Juan Carlos (Charlie) Soto

vCISO

Charlie Soto is a v-CISO at Mandiant now part of Google Cloud. Charlie holds a Master's Degree in Cyber Security from the University of West London. Having written his dissertation on Zero Trust Architecture he regularly contributes to the CSA Zero Trust Working Group by direct development or reviewing of training/research.

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Jaye Tillson
Jaye Tillson
Director of Strategy at Axis Security

Jaye Tillson

Director of Strategy at Axis Security

Gustavo Vallejo
Gustavo Vallejo
Professor, EALDE Business School

Gustavo Vallejo

Professor, EALDE Business School

Roeland Van Zeijst
Roeland Van Zeijst
Senior Program Manager, Dutch National Police

Roeland Van Zeijst

Senior Program Manager, Dutch National Police

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Chris Willman
Principal Cybersecurity Engineer, MITRE

Chris Willman

Principal Cybersecurity Engineer, MITRE

Staff

Daniele Catteddu
Daniele Catteddu
Chief Technology Officer, CSA

Daniele Catteddu

Chief Technology Officer, CSA

Daniele Catteddu is an information security and risk management practitioner, technologies expert and privacy evangelist with over 15 of experience. He worked in several senior roles both in the private and public sector. He is member of various national and international security expert groups and committees on cyber-security and privacy, keynote speaker at several conferences and author of numerous studies and papers on risk management, ...

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Chandler Curran
Chandler Curran
Membership Success Manager, CSA

Chandler Curran

Membership Success Manager, CSA

Jerod Hollen
Jerod Hollen
Web / Content Developer, CSA

Jerod Hollen

Web / Content Developer, CSA

Hannah Rock
Hannah Rock
Content Development Manager, CSA

Hannah Rock

Content Development Manager, CSA

Anna Campbell Schorr
Anna Campbell Schorr
Training Program Director, CSA

Anna Campbell Schorr

Training Program Director, CSA

Noelle Sheck
Noelle Sheck
Communications Coordinator, CSA

Noelle Sheck

Communications Coordinator, CSA

Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith
Senior Graphic Designer, CSA

Stephen Smith

Senior Graphic Designer, CSA

Adriano Sverko
Adriano Sverko
Technical Writer, CSA

Adriano Sverko

Technical Writer, CSA

Senior tech enthusiast with a career spanning over 30 years in IT. My diverse background in IT applications and infrastructure began with an interest in participating in tech startups, grew up with training international business consultants on ERP and CRM, and matured working with Fortune 500 clients. I have focused on software development, healthcare, and manufacturing. My expertise extends to ITSM/ITIL, tech training and tutoring to adul...

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