Franklin Diaz

Franklin Diaz is a Lecturer in the Information Systems discipline at the University of Colorado Denver Business School and a Principal Security Consultant / Extended Expertise at Palo Alto Networks. He has over 25 years of experience spanning telecommunications, enterprise networking, software engineering, and information security. At Palo Alto Networks, Franklin leads the design and deployment of security solutions for enterprise customers migrating to the cloud, architecting scalable infrastructure using IaC across GCP, OCI, AWS, and Azure, and serving as a trusted technical advisor on security transformations, recovery, and policy gap remediation.

Franklin currently serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at CU Denver Business School (Sep 2025–present), where he teaches ISMG 2050: Business Problem Solving Tools. In this course, students explore IT infrastructure fundamentals, data management, and the role of information systems in modern business and technology. He previously taught Information Systems courses at McHenry County College (2006–2011), covering Linux OS basics, Linux shell programming, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Windows.

Prior to his current roles, Franklin spent over five years as a Security Engineer with the Detection and Response Engineering team at Salesforce, building large-scale security data pipelines processing over 1 billion events per day in a FedRamp High GovCloud environment on AWS. Earlier, he served as a Principal Research Software Engineer at Indiana University's Software Defined Networking Lab (2012–2014), and held R&D positions at Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola Solutions.