Michael O’Neil

Principal Analyst at Insightaas

Michael O’Neil is one of the world’s foremost independent IT industry analysts.

Over the course of his career, he has helped executives at leading buy-side and sell-side organizations to capitalize new technologies and accompanying business opportunities. He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of events, and held intensive strategy workshops across North America, and in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Caribbean, on issues ranging from channel/ecosystem management to hybrid/cloud roadmapping. And O’Neil has authored hundreds of reports and whitepapers, and four acclaimed management books: The Death of Core Competency: A management guide to cloud computing and the zero-friction management future (InsightaaS Press, 2014), Building Cloud Value: A Guide to Best Practice, 2016 (with InsightaaS CCO Mary Allen), Analytics in a Business Context (InsightaaS Press, 2018), and the Amazon #1 best-selling The Executive Guide to Zero Trust.

In The Executive Guide to Zero Trust, O’Neil – who was a member of the Office of the CISO for Stratascale, a services provider to Fortune 1000 businesses – worked with internal colleagues, client security executives, and leading industry experts to define ZT from an executive’s perspective: what is zero trust? How does it fit with organizational imperatives, and with other technologies? What does the journey look like, and how should an organization measure progress along the path? The resulting book provides clear guidance, free from techno-speak, that executives can use to build a strategy that is proactive and aligned with the evolving needs of the digital world.