# Doug Merritt

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John Kindervag: How Zero Trust Was Born

John Kindervag, creator of the Zero Trust model, joins host Doug Merritt on In Progress to trace Zero Trust's origin story — from LAN parties and firewall configurations to federal security mandates. John explains how getting fired for adding outbound rules to firewalls eventually led him to develo…

Eric McAlpine: The New Physics of Cyber

In this episode of In Progress, CEO Doug Merritt sits down with Eric McAlpine, Founder and CEO of Momentum Cyber, the cybersecurity industry's first dedicated investment bank. Eric shares how he built Momentum after stints at Citigroup and Blackstone, and what the firm's deal data reveals about a m…

Keith Wojcieszek: Cybercrime Runs Like a Fortune 500 Company

In this episode of In Progress, CEO Doug Merritt sits down with Keith Wojcieszek, former Chief of the Secret Service's Cyber Intelligence Section, to unpack what modern cybercrime actually looks like. Keith draws on his career-defining case against Roman Seleznev, once one of the world's most proli…

Chris Hughes: Not Prevention, But Resiliency

In the inaugural episode of In Progress, Aviatrix CEO Doug Merritt talks with Chris Hughes — CISA Cyber Innovation Fellow, author of Software Transparency, Effective Vulnerability Management, and Securing AI Agents, and founder of Resilient Cyber — about the forces reshaping security: exponential C…

John Qian: Building Security Programs Under Fire

In the latest episode of "In Progress," Aviatrix CEO Doug Merritt sits down with Aviatrix CISO John Qian to trace his unlikely journey from product engineer to security leader, unpack what it took to build Zoom's security program in the middle of a pandemic, and explore why AI is rewriting the rule…

427 | Customer Outcomes, AI Adoption, and the New Software Economy | Carl Lenocker

Jeff Mains sits down with Carl Lenocker, a 30-year enterprise software veteran who started in Silicon Valley in the '80s, survived the dot-com bust, and now consults founders on what actually creates durable companies. Carl delivers a sobering assessment: more than 90% of the AI companies being bui…

Ashish Rajan: Security for AI, Not AI for Security

In this episode of In Progress, Aviatrix CEO Doug Merritt sits down with Ashish Rajan, host of the Cloud Security Podcast and AI Security Podcast. The two discuss why security fundamentals still hold in the age of AI, how identity management became critical now that thousands of AI agents carry the…

How to Secure Egress for AI Workloads

As the speed of automated threats outpaces traditional patching cycles, organizations must prioritize structural containment over purely reactive detection. Cloud network architectures frequently default to permissive egress, meaning workloads can reach the public internet unless explicitly restric…

Clint Bruce: Arrows, Archers, and the Harder Thing

Clint Bruce made the Baltimore Ravens, then walked away to become a Navy SEAL. He joins Aviatrix CEO Doug Merritt to talk about choosing the harder path, treating talent as a credit line, and why “money is bullets” for his nonprofit, Carry The Load. They also cover the shift from arrow to archer, w…