Matthew Gast is director of technology at Aerohive Networks. He has been active within the Wi-Fi community, serving as the chair of both security task groups at the Wi-Fi Alliance, where he leads efforts to extend the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) certification to incorporate newly developed security technologies and drive adoption of the strongest forms of security by network administrators. Previously, he served as chair of the task group that produced the 802.11-2012 revision.