Ed Lopez is a member of Fortinet’s Consulting SE team, specializing in Operational Technology. He returned to Fortinet last year, having previously worked ten years at Fortinet as a VP in Technical Sales and Product Management roles. He has three decades of cybersecurity experience, with companies such as Cisco (Former CCIE), NetScreen, Juniper, and as a Distinguished Engineer at Verizon, as well as a host of startups and his own consultancy firm in a variety in networking and security disciplines, notable Zero-Trust and IIoT. At Fortinet he holds six patents for Firewall Scalability and Software Defined Security. He is a co-author of RFC-8329 ‘Framework for Interface to Network Security Functions’.