# Jody Brazil

> Jody Brazil is the co-founder and CEO of FireMon, whose work in firewall configuration monitoring helped establish network security policy management. A Kansas State physics graduate and former FishNet Security CTO, he also co-founded cloud-security company DisruptOps and returned to lead FireMon when it acquired DisruptOps in 2021.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at FireMon
- **Organizations:** FireMon, Secure Passage, DisruptOps, FishNet Security, Beta Technologies
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Physics, Kansas State University
- **Known for:** Developed early network-security configuration change-monitoring tools that became FireMon., Released a graphical firewall policy change view in 2001 and firewall rule-usage analysis application in 2004, according to his professional biography., EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2015, technology category, Central Midwest region.

## Career timeline

- **1995** — Graduated from Kansas State University with a physics degree.
- **Before FireMon** — Founded Beta Technologies and served as CTO at FishNet Security.
- **1997** — A telecommunications customer outage caused by an unauthorized firewall configuration change prompted his early change-monitoring application.
- **2001** — The application emerged as FireMon; his biography credits a graphical firewall policy change view that year.
- **2004** — Co-founded Secure Passage with Gary Fish to develop and market FireMon; released a firewall rule-usage analysis application.
- **2009** — Named president and CTO of Secure Passage.
- **2014** — Insight Venture Partners acquired a majority interest in FireMon.
- **2015** — Received EY Entrepreneur Of The Year in technology for the Central Midwest; delivered the Nichols Distinguished Alumni Lecture at Kansas State.
- **2018** — Led DisruptOps as CEO at its cloud-management platform introduction.
- **2021** — Returned as FireMon CEO after its acquisition of DisruptOps, which closed August 30.

## Achievements

- Developed early network-security configuration change-monitoring tools that became FireMon.
- Released a graphical firewall policy change view in 2001 and firewall rule-usage analysis application in 2004, according to his professional biography.
- EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2015, technology category, Central Midwest region.
- Delivered the 2015 Ernest Fox Nichols Distinguished Alumni Lecture at Kansas State University.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — FireMon published his account of the late-night firewall failure behind its origins on April 24.
- **2026-03** — Discussed network-policy sprawl and AI with Alan Shimel at RSAC in a March 26 Techstrong TV interview.
- **2026-03** — Discussed the security policy control plane in a March 25 SC Media video.
- **2026-02** — Published Making Zero Trust Real, reflecting on his conversation with John Kindervag and FireMon’s Illumio integration.

## Links

- Website: https://www.firemon.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodybrazil/

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Last updated: 2026-10-24