Dmitriy Ayrapetov is the Executive Director of Product Management at SonicWall. Prior to this position, Dmitriy held product management and engineering roles at SonicWall and at enKoo Inc., an SSL VPN startup acquired by SonicWall in 2005. As a cybersecurity expert, he speaks at industry conferences including, RSA, Gartner Security Summit, Dell World and is a regular presence at SonicWall’s annual partner conference Peak Performance. Dmitriy holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and a BA in Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley.
This year was laden with cybersecurity challenges pertaining to “opportunistic attackers” and attempts to compromise individuals’ computers for credentials and financial information harvesting.