Colson has been in the cybersecurity space for seven years now, with that journey starting at pre-Cisco Duo. Over the years he developed significant interest in cloud security and governance. While in the past that might have specifically referred to the public cloud, applications and the users that connect to them live everywhere, which means a broader viewpoint is needed to effectively secure the users, data, and devices that make up an organization. Colson has helped companies develop effective Zero Trust Network Access and data protection programs, starting with visibility and ending with effectively implementing policies that protect critical business data.

Today, his journey brings him back to devices, though still with a "zero trust" lens, where organizations are not just trusting the data their systems provide but validating and verifying via aggregating all of their different data sources into one place. This visibility, just as it does when building a data protection program, is the first step to effective risk management programs.