SPEAKERS
Nir Zuk
Founder and CTO
Palo Alto Networks
Nir Zuk brings a wealth of network security expertise and industry experience to Palo Alto Networks. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks, Nir was CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure, a pioneer in intrusion prevention and detection appliances. Nir was also a principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies, and was one of the developers of stateful inspection technology.
Nikesh Arora
CEO and Chairman
Palo Alto Networks
Nikesh Arora joined as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Google, Inc. during a 10-year span, including senior vice president and chief business officer, president of global sales operations and business development, and president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Google, Nikesh held the role of chief marketing officer for the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was chief executive officer and founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002.
Nikesh serves on the board of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., a public Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company, and Tipping Point, a non-profit organization that fights poverty in the Bay Area. Previously, he served on the boards of SoftBank Group Corp., Sprint Corp., Colgate-Palmolive Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, among others. He holds an M.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University, an M.S. in finance from Boston College and a B. Tech. in electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University.
Lee Klarich
Chief Product Officer
Palo Alto Networks
Since early product inception in 2006, Lee Klarich has served as the head of product management at Palo Alto Networks, overseeing the product strategy and roadmap and playing a key role in delivering our Next-Generation Security Platform. In August 2017, he became chief product officer with responsibility for both engineering and product management for the company.
Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was the director of product management for Juniper Networks, where he was responsible for firewall/VPN platforms and software. He joined Juniper Networks through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition, where he managed the same product line. Previously, he held various positions at Excite@Home and Packard Bell-NEC. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell University.
Prajakta Jagdale
Senior Manager, InfoSec
Palo Alto Networks
Prajakta Jagdale (PJ) manages the Red Team program at Palo Alto Networks. She leads a team of engineers responsible for simulating threat actor behavior against the company’s infrastructure to ensure security readiness and incident response efficacy. In addition to red teaming, her 12-year long career in information security has given Prajakta the opportunity to tackle challenges in the fields of application and software security research as well as product security and security architecture.
Vidya Gopalakrishnan
SOC Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
Vidya Gopalakrishnan is a SOC Engineer with the Palo Alto Networks Security Operations Team (SOC) / Blue Team. She leads the threat-hunting program at the Palo Alto Networks SOC and is responsible for running structured hunting operations within the team. This includes research and development of specific custom use-cases for the engineers on her team to continually hunt for in the wild using our Palo Alto Networks products. She has close to 3 years of work experience as a Security Operations Engineer and holds a Masters Degree in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon University with a specialization in Cyber Forensics and Incident Response.