George Manuelian

George Manuelian

RapidFort

Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer

George Manuelian is a veteran technology executive with deep expertise in cybersecurity, networking, and cloud infrastructure. Before joining RapidFort, Manuelian was VP of Worldwide SASE GTM at Palo Alto Networks, driving over $1.2 billion in revenue. He has also led key partnerships at AWS, grew Versa Networks to $100M ARR as VP of Sales Engineering, and spent over 20 years at Cisco, leading innovations in mobile and cloud services.

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Governance, Risk and Compliance

How federal cyber standards became critical to the business of software vendors

George ManuelianDecember 24, 2025

Frameworks like CMMC 2.0 continue to set the bar for security, but it’s customers and insurers that are really driving compliance.