Stephen Watkins serves as director and principal security architect at Fortinet, where he leads a global solution architecture team focused on Secure SD-WAN and SD-Branch solutions, and the Fortinet Security Fabric. Having more than 25 years of IT and information security experience and expertise, he evangelizes Fortinet’s portfolio and cybersecurity pedigree throughout the industry. Stephen is a published author in the information security domain and regularly speaks about numerous topics at industry events. He has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science (concentration in information security) and has maintained CISSP certification for over 15 years.