Chase Cunningham

Dr. Zero Trust

Dr. Chase Cunningham—widely known as Dr. Zero Trust—is a retired Navy Chief Cryptologist and the architect behind the ZTX (Zero Trust eXtended) framework. Chase has authored best-selling books (including Buy the Breach and The No Bullsht Marketing Guide for Zero Trust ), hosts The Dr. ZeroTrust Show podcast, and serves as a strategic advisor to leading security vendors and innovators. Chase splits his time between coaching executives on Zero Trust transformations, building evaluation frameworks that cut through marketing fog, and evangelizing a simple idea: security isn’t hard when you align controls to how attackers actually operate.

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Speaking history

World Game Protection Conference

2 March 2027 Las Vegas, United States “Zero Trust”

SecureWorld New York City

29 October 2026 New York, United States

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