Dr. Chase Cunningham—widely known as Dr. Zero Trust—is a retired Navy Chief Cryptologist and the architect behind the ZTX (Zero Trust eXtended) framework. Chase has authored best-selling books (including Buy the Breach and The No Bullsht Marketing Guide for Zero Trust), hosts The Dr. ZeroTrust Show podcast, and serves as a strategic advisor to leading security vendors and innovators. Chase splits his time between coaching executives on Zero Trust transformations, building evaluation frameworks that cut through marketing fog, and evangelizing a simple idea: security isn’t hard when you align controls to how attackers actually operate.

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Zero Trust
Dr. Chase Cunningham—widely known as Dr. Zero Trust—is one of cybersecurity’s most recognizable voices. A retired Navy Chief Cryptologist and the architect behind the ZTX (Zero Trust eXtended) framework at Forrester, Chase has helped Fortune 500s and federal agencies turn Zero Trust from buzzword into operating model. In a direct, no-nonsense manner with a distinct Texan flair, Dr. Zero Trust talks about what the truth is in the cyber market, possibly making fun of the industry. Blending battlefield clarity with boardroom pragmatism the doctor will share cyber security strategies for today’s world.