Forrest R. Foster has spent three decades inside some of the world's most complex cloud compliance programs — building them, breaking them, and rebuilding them better. As Security & Trust Resiliency Lead at Cisco Systems, he has driven first-ever certifications across sovereign government frameworks on multiple continents, closed board-level audit findings, and translated enterprise risk into executive action across some of the largest regulated markets in the world. His forthcoming book, Cloud Compliance Essentials (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Fall 2026), is the practitioner's guide to turning compliance complexity into competitive advantage. He holds an MBA, NSA-validated BSIT, CISA, CISSP, CRISC, and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor certification.