Mark Simos — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as the Lead Cybersecurity Architect for Microsoft.
Leads the creation of the Microsoft Security Adoption Framework (SAF) and the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA).
Author of the Zero Trust Playbook series, providing role-by-role guidance for organizations.
Serves as Security Forum Chair and Zero Trust Working Group Co-Chair at The Open Group.
Provides advisory and consulting engagements to leaders and practitioners on managing security risk.
Contributes to NIST standards, including guides for cybersecurity event recovery and enterprise patch management.

Biography

Mark Simos is the Lead Cybersecurity Architect for Microsoft, where he focuses on simplifying complex cybersecurity topics into clear, actionable guidance for a wide range of organizational roles, from board members and CEOs to technical engineers and SecOps/SOC analysts.