Chad Koslow is co-founder and CEO of Ridge IT Cyber, a cybersecurity firm founded to leverage the technical knowledge and insight that he and his partner gained around complex enterprise systems while supporting Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. They developed their vision of Cloud, Zero Trust and overall Cyber Security Architecture to address modern day threats and issues faced by commercial and federal organizations throughout the world. Ridge IT Cyber has since grown to service customers clients in 160 countries across 6 continents with over 500K users protected. With the implementation of over 1k Zero Trust related projects and Architectures in the past three years alone, Ridge has shifted the focus for our clients from compliance-based security to battle-tested systems and IT modernization.