Author: Steve Kirk

Steve Kirk is the Vice President of Fortinet Federal and is a cybersecurity professional with 17 years of experience, 11 of them with Fortinet. Prior to Fortinet, he worked for network security companies: Secure Computing, 3Com and Foundry. Kirk has 26 years of experience supporting the U.S. federal sector. He is a graduate of Radford University. 

From the Winter 2017 Issue

The Move to Standardization and Open Architectures Enable Cybersecurity Automation for Government Sector

Author(s):

Steve Kirk, Vice President, Fortinet Federal

As networks become increasingly complex, with wireless connectivity, the move to the cloud, BYOD, and the Internet of Things, they present ever-growing opportunities for compromise. Most organizations have deployed several security devices as part of their overall security infrastructure, usually from different vendors. Often, those devices don’t talk to one another. These interoperability challenges can … Read more