Benjamin Sherman, Ph.D. is the Fortinet AI and cloud SME for the Northeast Enterprise and FinServ teams. Ben is a trusted cybersecurity and technical engineering advisor for Fortune 100 companies and authored scores of scientific papers in monitoring, data mining, machine learning, data reduction, networking, archiving, governance, identity, compliance, and application performance analytics. As a director, program, product manager and consultant he has sustained high performing interdisciplinary teams in both private and public sectors. Ben has taught and holds degrees in Resource Management from the Univ. of WI-Madison, Univ. of NH. and held distinguished fellowships at, Columbia University, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard Medical School.