Season 5 - Kickoff -Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) - Fernando Montenegro

Join us for the kickoff episode of Season 5. This season, we are transitioning to explore the best ways to protect infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments. We will be focusing on the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) and examining how many vendors in the industry address this important domain. We have our dear friend Fernando Montenegro joining us to kick off the season. Fernando is a Senior Principal Analyst on Omdia’s cybersecurity research team, based in Toronto, Canada. He focuses on the Infrastructure Security Intelligence Service, which provides vendors, service providers, and enterprise clients with insights and data on network security, content security, and more. Fernando’s experience in enterprise security environments includes network security, security architecture, cloud security, endpoint security, content security, and antifraud. He has a deep interest in the economic aspects of cybersecurity and is a regular speaker at industry events. Before joining Omdia in 2021, Fernando was an industry analyst with 451 Research. He previously held a variety of operations, consulting, and sales engineering roles over his 25+ years in cybersecurity, always focusing on enterprise security at organizations including vArmour, RSA, Crossbeam, Hewlett Packard, and Nutec/Terra. Fernando holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science and different industry certifications.