James Sherlow has extensive application security engineering experience gained in both the private and public sectors. Through many years of practical engineering experience and research, he has become an acknowledged expert in cybersecurity and threat intelligence, as well as in the secure application delivery of content and the varying risks and threats associated with them.
Prior to Cequence Security, James was a leading cybersecurity specialist at Palo Alto Networks, a role he moved to after building and leading their Western Europe Security Systems Engineering team. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, he had led the Systems Engineering Team at ConSentry, focusing on application visibility, control and security in both the wired and wireless Local Area Network (LAN). He had previously helped pioneer the Next Generation of cloud native application delivery at Avi Networks, which was acquired by VMware. James brings his considerable experience in fast moving tech environments to Cequence Security to augment the company’s technical presence, adding further capability to deliver API Security services to our customer base and channel partners.

Cequence Security is an API security and bot management company that protects customers’ applications and APIs against attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud. Our comprehensive Unified API Protection solution offers discovery, compliance, and protection across all internal and external APIs without needing any instrumentation, SDK, or JavaScript deployments. Cequence solutions scale to handle the most demanding government, Fortune and Global 500 organizations, securing more than 8 billion daily API interactions and protecting more than 3 billion user accounts across these customers. The company is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.