Bruce Michelson is an HP Distinguished Technologist (Emeritus) and the Manager of Close Loop LLC. Bruce has over 36+ years in delivering industry white papers and customer engagements. He has delivered over 1,000+ white papers and over 350+ engagements and counting. His focus is assisting businesses in understanding technology changes and embracing innovations as a practitioner.
Bruce has created a methodology for adopting best practices – Closed Loop Lifecycle Planning© that many businesses have embraced.
Bruce is the author of 7 books on lifecycle management and industry segments with numerous copyrights and patents regarding his expertise in User Segmentation©, Lifecycle Management, Cost of Change©, The Ready State©, and Appropriate Incumbent Behavior©. As a lifecycle practitioner, Bruce is a voice that applies common sense to the IT strategies to embrace change.
As he continues to consult and provide IT thought leadership across multiple industries, Bruce is also an instructor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, teaching IT in health care and advanced systems design.
Cody Gerhardt is an HP Distinguished Technologist and Chief Technologist with over 16 years’ experience. Cody is a leader in security, manageability, modern workplace, cloud, and virtualization. Cody is well credentialed, with multiple certifications, and his expertise is in high demand across various industries both public and private sectors. Cody advises and consults on adoption of trends and counter measures, and the strategies to implement those solutions.
Cody has been certified by International Non-Profit Membership Association for Information Security© (ICS2) as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional© (CISSP).
Cody has published intellectual properties, has pending patents and has defense publications including the Accelerated State©, teamed with Bruce. Cody has published or co-published over 60+ industry white papers.
Together Bruce and Cody decided to address the growing challenges associated with security. To both Bruce and Cody, Zero Trust is very likely the ultimate approach to be considered as the solution to address the problem that has been pervasive in our world today.