Nicholai Piagentini has been working in cybersecurity for 20 years. After providing advanced training in Microsoft, Novell and Cisco networking, Nicholai became a member of the education staff at Netscreen Technologies. He continued working at Juniper networks after their acquisition of Netscreen in the competitive intelligence group. Nicholai left Juniper to start the education department at Palo Alto Networks almost 10 years ago. He also became the first consulting engineer for them and specialized in user aware next generation firewall architecture. Currently Nicholai works with Palo Alto Networks in defining and evangelizing the Security Operations solutions.