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Jack Poller

Jack Poller is VP of Product Marketing at NetFoundry, a Zero Trust connectivity company built on the open source OpenZiti platform. He brings over 35 years of experience in security, networking, and cloud strategy, including work as founder of Paradigm Technica and as a Principal Analyst covering AI, identity, and data security. Jack holds degrees in Applied Math and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Posts by Jack Poller
Vulnerability Cloaking, Zero Trust

You Can’t Exploit What You Can’t Reach

  • Updated: October 6, 2026
Vulnerability cloaking removes an unpatched service's open ports. See how outbound-only, identity-based connections leave attackers nothing to scan or exploit....
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Part 3 of the Microsegmentation series
Microsegmentation

Beyond the Firewall: Cryptographic Segmentation for the Modern CISO

  • Updated: October 5, 2026
Network segmentation trusts the address, so attackers with stolen credentials walk right past it. See how cryptographic segmentation ties access to identity....
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Vulnerability Cloaking, Zero Trust

The Six-Month Callback on Every “Accepted Risk” Waiver

  • Updated: September 30, 2026
Risk-acceptance waivers defer vulnerabilities and leave the exposure open. Each renewal costs audit credibility. A compensating control ends the cycle....
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Microsegmentation

The CFO’s Guide to Microsegmentation ROI: Infrastructure vs. Software-Defined

  • Updated: September 29, 2026
Licensing is the cheapest part of microsegmentation. See where operating cost hides in firewall rule upkeep and how identity-first policy keeps it...
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Vulnerability cloaking removes an asset's reachability, so an unpatched flaw has no network path an attacker can use.
Vulnerability Cloaking, Zero Trust

You Will Never Patch Fast Enough. Here’s the Math.

  • Updated: September 30, 2026
Vulnerabilities are disclosed far faster than any team can remediate them, and attackers exploit them in days. See why the patch backlog...
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Microsegmentation efforts often require mapping the entire network.
Microsegmentation

The Microsegmentation Trap: Why 99% Are Planning It and Only 9% Protect Their Critical Systems

  • Updated: September 30, 2026
Nearly every enterprise is planning microsegmentation, yet only 9% have protected the bulk of their critical systems. The reason enterprise microsegmentation stalls...
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Legacy microsegmentation requires mapping every connection before you deploy a single segment
Microsegmentation

Microsegmentation Without the Mapping Project: Start Dark, Grow One Workload at a Time

  • Updated: September 15, 2026
Legacy microsegmentation demands a full network map before you deploy. NetFoundry's dark-by-default model lets you segment one workload at a time —...
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Ai agents make requests to other AI agents and so on, within your network.
AI, Microsegmentation

Your Segmentation Was Built for North-South Traffic. AI Agents Don’t Travel That Way.

  • Updated: September 1, 2026
Agents calling other agents create traffic your segmentation was never built to see. Here's why east-west AI connections are the containment gap...
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