In the most recent issue of Forbes Magazine, I profiled Nir Zuk, the founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks. In 2006, Palo Alto totally rebuilt the firewall, making it the first company to bring a completely new firewall to market since it was invented 11 years earlier. They called it the “next-generation firewall,” a term now adopted by analysts who cover the industry. …read more
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Nir Zuk's Palo Alto Networks Is Blowing Up Internet Security
“They don’t like me,” says Nir Zuk of his old bosses. As one of the earliest employees at Check Point Software Technologies in the 1990s he wrote parts of the world’s first commercial firewall. He later built essential chunks of the firewall sold by Juniper Networks. But at both companies, Zuk (pronounced “zook”) ended up quitting in a huff–and, in one case, walking away from millions of dollars in unvested stock options. Why? The Israeli engineer felt his best ideas were being blocked by incompetence and office politics. All he ever wanted, he insists, was to build new things. …read more
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