Pavel Minarik

As Acting CISO at Progress, Pavel Minarik is responsible for overseeing enterprise-wide information security strategy, risk management and regulatory compliance. His role is focused on aligning security initiatives with business objectives, strengthening security posture, building resilient security programs and leading cross-functional teams in complex, fast-paced environments.

As Vice President of Product Security at Progress, he is responsible for the secure software development life cycle across all Progress products, defining and implementing product security standards and ensuring that security is inherent to the product development practice. As part of M&A initiatives, Pavel leads the product security reviews and assessments during technical due diligence.

In his previous role as Vice President of Technology, he was responsible for overarching technology strategy of Progress’ Infrastructure Management products such as Flowmon, Loadmaster and WhatsUp Gold as well as experimental development in this area. With his experience as the former CTO of Flowmon Networks (acquired by Progress) Pavel led the product management for the flagship NPMD & NDR product Flowmon. Flowmon is a solution for IT professionals that enable businesses to ensure their services are running well and securely, and their workforce is productive.

As a former senior researcher at the Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University, Pavel has participated in several research and development projects in the domain of network traffic monitoring, analysis and cybersecurity. He is also the author of more than ten publications on behavior analysis and algorithms for traffic processing and anomaly detection summarized in his PhD thesis “Building a System for Network Security Monitoring.”