Ciaran Gunn

About Ciaran Gunn

Strategic Cybersecurity Advisor | 15+ Years of Technical Sales & Architectural LeadershipI help organizations across Florida transform cybersecurity from a complex \"cost of doing business\" into a streamlined driver of ROI. My background as a Solutions Engineer and Architect allows me to look past the dashboard and into the underlying Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).In my current role as an Account Executive at Zscaler, I partner with C-suite executives to dismantle the \"tax\" of legacy infrastructure. By consolidating fragmented point products into a unified Zero Trust Exchange, I help my clients achieve:• Significant TCO Reduction: Eliminating the hidden costs of managing hardware, MPLS circuits, and redundant security stacks.• Risk-Adjusted ROI: Leveraging AI-driven security and SASE to prevent costly breaches while accelerating M&A integration and cloud migration.• Operational Excellence: Moving from a \"reactive\" spend model to a \"proactive\" investment strategy that scales with the business. • My mission is to ensure that every dollar spent on security is a dollar invested in business agility and long-term financial resilience.Key Focus Areas:• Infrastructure Consolidation: Reducing complexity to lower operational overhead and TCO.• AI-Enabled Security: Deploying smart, scalable zero Trust and SASE frameworks that protect the brand while enabling remote-work productivity.• Business Value Realization: Aligning ZTNA and AI security initiatives with core corporate objectives to ensure measurable ROI.

Experience

1. Account Executive

   Zscaler

   Jan 2026 — Present · FL, US

   Strategic Advisory & Ecosystem Growth: Partnering with commercial and enterprise organizations across Florida to architect and adopt Zero Trust, SASE, and AI security frameworks that align with long-term business resilience.• Value Engineering & TCO Optimization: Leveraging a background in solutions engineering to conduct deep-dive financial analyses, identifying opportunities to consolidate legacy security stacks and significantly reduce Total Cost of Ownership.• Executive Technical Partnership: Bridging the gap between C-suite fiscal objectives and technical execution, ensuring that digital transformation initiatives deliver measurable ROI and risk-adjusted returns.• Modernization Strategy: Advising leadership teams on the transition from fragmented, hardware-heavy infrastructure to unified, cloud-native security models that accelerate business agility.• Secure AI Adoption: Guiding enterprises through the complexities of AI security, helping them mitigate emerging cyber risks while maintaining the operational speed necessary for competitive growth.

Education

• Edinburgh Napier University

  Bachelor of Science - BSc, Network Computing

  2010 — 2011

• Atlantic Technological University

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• Cisco Ios
• A10
• Routing
• Riverbed
• Eigrp
• Routers
• Ipsec
• Load Balancing
• Switches
• Stp
• Vpn
• Checkpoint
• Network Security
• Mpls
• Data Center
• Bgp
• Tcp/Ip
• Fwsm
• Hsrp
• Network Administration
• Cisco Asa
• Juniper
• Qos
• Ccnp
• F5 Bigip
• Routing Protocols
• Linux
• Cisco Technologies
• Wan
• Vlan
• Firewalls
• Networking
• Vtp
• Asa
• Netscreen
• Wan Optimisation
• Ospf
• Troubleshooting
• Ccna