Zero Trust:
Beyond the Moat

Mr. Plater was named the DON CISO in February 2021. He reports directly to the DON CIO on the sufficiency, impacts, and implications of proposed changes to cybersecurity guidance, standards, and strategies. He advises the DON CIO on the Defend Strategic / Enterprise level IT security initiatives, commercial cloud security, and cybersecurity innovation to achieve the organization’s vision. He supports coalition building to speed implementation of innovative solutions to address department requirements. He leads a team responsible for driving initiatives to secure DON data and information, regardless of where it resides. These initiatives involve measuring cyber risk, active monitoring, building a cyber-sentry culture, securing the Defense Industry Base, and supporting acquisition.

Mr. Tony Plater joined the government as a Senior Advisor to the Department of the Navy (DON) Chief Information Officer in November 2015. Prior to his selection for government service, Mr. Plater accumulated 13 years of industry experience as a Senior Lead Technologist with Booz Allen Hamilton. In this capacity, he rendered onsite cybersecurity policy and program support to senior leadership in the DoD CIO Cloud Computing Office, Navy N2/N6, and the Navy Marine Corp Intranet (NMCI) Program Office.

Mr. Plater is a retired U.S. Army military IT professional who was formally recognized on numerous occasions for exemplary/meritorious service. During his military career, he completed leadership assignments with the Joint Staff J4, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, and the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade.

Mr. Plater is a graduate of the DON’s Bridging the Gap Leadership Development Program and the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) Leadership for a Democratic Society course. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Information Systems, in addition to multiple industry certifications including Program Management Professional (PMP), Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).

Sean Frazier is Federal CSO at Okta. In his role, Sean acts as the voice of the CSO for Okta's federal business. Prior to joining Okta, Sean spent more than 25 years working in technology and public sector security for companies such as Duo Security, Netscape, LoudCloud/Opsware, Proofpoint, Cisco & MobileIron. Sean has helped lead numerous projects used by the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, including the Fortezza Crypto Card, Defense Messaging System (DMS) and many others. He also has extensive experience in identity and public key infrastructure (PKI), network, applications, mobile and IoT. Sean has testified in front of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on the importance of public/private partnership in protecting the nation’s digital infrastructure. Sean also advises public/private partnership working groups including ACT-IAC, ATARC and many others.

Dale is a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Army, where his last assignment was with the Cyber Protection Brigade helping provide analytic support and infrastructure automation. He is now a member of Red Hat's North America Public Sector Domain Architect team, specializing in the Ansible Automation Platform.

Brigadier General Chad D. Raduege is the Director of Cyberspace and Information Dominance, as well as, Chief Information Officer, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. He leads a staff and four subordinate units responsible for delivering strategic and enterprise-level cyberspace efforts to increase the United States Air Force's ability to provide combat forces to Combatant Commanders. Brigadier General Raduege provides the strategic vision, policy, guidance, and advocacy to drive the engineering and integration to build, extend, operate, secure and defend the Air Force portion of the Department of Defense global network. He is responsible to organize, train, and equip cyberspace capability and communications for the command’s 34 wings, 700 aircraft, 19 bases, and 70 worldwide operating locations with 98,000 total force military personnel.

Brigadier General Raduege entered the Air Force in 1994 as a distinguished graduate of The Ohio State University. An Operation JOINT GUARD veteran, he commanded eight times at the detachment, squadron, group, and agency levels, to include deployed commands supporting Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM. In addition, he served as a staff officer at the Major Command, Air Staff, Joint Staff, and Office of the Secretary of Defense levels.

Previously, Brigadier General Raduege served as the Commander, White House Communications Agency. In this position, he led a 1,200 person joint headquarters and five operational units traveling worldwide to provide assured information services to the President, Vice President, named successors, National Security Council, White House Staff, the United States Secret Service, and the White House Military Office to ensure instantaneous secure and non-secure worldwide communications required to lead the nation.

Drew is a committed leader working to ensure civilian and DoD agencies can take advantage of modern cloud technology, securely, to empower their teams, meet their missions, and deliver exceptional citizen service.

As Vice President of Federal at Zscaler, Drew focuses on ensuring agencies can provide secure access for users regardless of device, location, or network. As more applications shift to the cloud, Drew’s primary focus has been on adjusting security to accommodate the user through a secure access service edge model. Drew is an experienced Vice President of Sales with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry supporting the US Federal government. Prior to Zscaler, he served as Vice President of Sales for US Public Sector and Director of DoD Sales at Riverbed Technology. He also served as Account Manager supporting the SOCOM, CENTCOM, and US Army SWA communities.

Bruce Marco is a 20-year veteran of the cybersecurity mission within the civilian government and the DOD. He has held various roles throughout his career, from consulting services to red team, cyber instruction, systems engineering, and systems engineering management. The past 15 years at leading OEM vendors have been focused on delivering products and solutions to government customers to help meet their cyber mission objectives. While working with his customers, Bruce has developed a particular interest in Zero Trust architectures and SSL/TLS decryption. Currently a DOD systems engineering manager at Palo Alto Networks, Bruce has worked closely with John Kindervag to deliver the Zero Trust message to various DOD components. Bruce is a graduate of Bucknell University and lives in Haymarket, Virginia, with his lovely wife and three children.

Tommy Gardner is HP’s Chief Technology Officer for HP Federal, spanning the US Federal Agencies, Higher Education, K-12 Education, State and Local government customer segments, as well as Federal Systems Integrators. His current responsibilities include technology leadership, strategic technology plans, product and technology strategies, sales force technical support, and customer and partner relationships.

Previously, Tommy has served as the Chief Technology Officer for Jacobs Engineering, Scitor, and ManTech. Earlier in his career he was a senior technical executive at Raytheon. In the U.S. Navy he served as the Deputy for Science and Technology for the Chief of Naval Research. He oversaw the Navy’s Deep Submergence Program as well as its Advanced Technology Program. He also commanded the nuclear submarine, USS San Juan (SSN 751).

Tommy’s educational background covers multiple disciplines and fields of interest including: cybersecurity, data science, blockchain, quantum information science, artificial intelligence, high performance computing and systems integration.

Tommy holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, an M.S. in Management of Technology from MIT and a Ph. D. in Energy Economics from George Washington University. He is a Professional Engineer, an ASME Fellow, and serves on the ASME Board of Governors, the ANSI Board of Directors and the U. S. Council on Competitiveness as the Co-chair of the Advanced Computer Roundtable.

Andrea Simson has over 20 years of experience working within the cybersecurity arena. Over the course of her career she has worked as a network security engineer/tester, cybersecurity auditor and an information system security officer. While working at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS aka AmeriCorps) she was promoted from Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). During her four years as the CNCS CISO she revamped the cybersecurity program and shifted the entire agency’s view on cybersecurity. CNCS employees saw cybersecurity as a necessary part of achieving the agency’s mission instead of a hinderance. In October of 2020, Andrea accepted the Senior Level (SL) Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) position at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).She has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC formally UMUC) and a Master of Science in Information and Telecommunication Systems with special emphasis in Information Security/Assurance (IA) from Johns Hopkins University. She is also a veteran of the US Air Force having served 10 ½ years on active duty. Her dream job is to become the Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the National Football League (NFL).

As the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for US Customs and Border Protection, Alma R. Cole is responsible for all aspects of the CBP Cybersecurity program, including security architecture, risk management, policy compliance, and defensive operations. Prior experience includes leading DHS-wide incident response efforts as the Director of the DHS Security Operations Center (SOC), and experience leading cybersecurity consulting engagements in the private sector.

Mr. Cole received his Master of Business Administration degree, with an emphasis in Information Assurance, through the National Science Foundation Cyber Corps Scholarship for Service program at Idaho State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from Utah State University. He also holds numerous industry certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Enterprise Architect, EA Center of Excellence (EACOE).

Scott Rose works as a computer scientist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Scott works on Internet infrastructure protection research and Internet protocol research. Scott is the editor of several IETF network protocol specifications and the author of several NIST Special Publications on secure Internet protocols. His current work is in bringing zero trust security understanding to the US Government. Scott received his BA in Computer Science from The College of Wooster and his MS from University of Maryland, Baltimore County.